Lost Dog Tracking Network Cumbria

Lost Dog Tracking Network Cumbria Here we will share our operational tracking and training - you can learn about the team and follow as our dogs become operational.

A huge thanks to Chrissy McKay from the Scotland team for doing the track overlays for us - blue is the "lost" dog and t...
10/04/2026

A huge thanks to Chrissy McKay from the Scotland team for doing the track overlays for us - blue is the "lost" dog and the other colours are the assessed dogs.

Lost dog network people are just the loveliest helpful lot and im very grateful for all the help ive had to build this team up.

Massive amounts of wind in the afternoon venue made for tricky conditions and quite persistent rain hit the morning assessment - so definitely not an easy time at all for our 6 dogs and handlers.

They did brilliantly!

Here's LDTN Ronnie and LDTN Rosie with Miriam and Cindy Well done both - excellent work over last few days
10/04/2026

Here's LDTN Ronnie and LDTN Rosie with Miriam and Cindy
Well done both - excellent work over last few days

Introducing LDTN Jeff and LDTN Luna with handlers Shelley and Jo! Awesome tracks in the last few days in some challengin...
10/04/2026

Introducing LDTN Jeff and LDTN Luna with handlers Shelley and Jo!
Awesome tracks in the last few days in some challenging windy conditions!
Well done

10/04/2026

Introducing LDTN Arlo and LDTN Nettle 🥰
With handlers Jayne and Lauren!
Absolutely fantastic tracks from these two yesterday

A very quick well done to this lot before we put up our dog and handler pictures soon! Im so pleased to announce that ou...
10/04/2026

A very quick well done to this lot before we put up our dog and handler pictures soon!
Im so pleased to announce that our Level 3 in Cumbria was a huge success with all dogs and handlers passing and now operational!
Nettle and Lauren
Arlo and Jayne
Luna and Jo
Ronnie and Miriam
Jeff and Shelley Collins
Rosie and Cindy

Massive thanks to Claire for coming all the way here to assess our teams.

Willow and Gilly obliged us by being "lost" for our assessments today - wish our team good luck for their results tomorr...
09/04/2026

Willow and Gilly obliged us by being "lost" for our assessments today - wish our team good luck for their results tomorrow!
Go Team - Ronnie, Rosie, Luna, Jeff, Nettle and Arlo!

06/01/2026

Can you help us??
We are looking for areas to train our tracking dogs in - for both regular sessions but also for our cpd days and our Level 3 Assessment in April.

After the level 3 we will potentially have a team of 7 Operational Tracking dogs in Cumbria ready to help search for lost dogs.

We need space to lay up to 6km of track for the level 3 - over field, woodland semi rural areas.

Our dogs work one at a time on lead and are under control.

We would also need parking for up to 7 cars.

Our team are all voluntary- we pay for our cpd out of our own pockets because we want to help..

If you think you could help- even if the area isnt as big as the ideal please get in touch.

Video below is Jeff finding the article from a track left by one of the other dogs.

After the Christmas break, the team was back in action at West Lakes Science Park for their monthly training session 🐕‍🦺...
31/12/2025

After the Christmas break, the team was back in action at West Lakes Science Park for their monthly training session 🐕‍🦺🎄
Excellent session for all of the handlers and dogs.
Great to see the dogs doing what they do best.

Wishing all of our followers a very Happy New Year and there will be lots of training for you to follow in the New Year!

Not the outcome we hoped for - Sam has been found and is over Rainbow Bridge. We set off to track Sam but just before w...
30/12/2025

Not the outcome we hoped for -
Sam has been found and is over Rainbow Bridge.
We set off to track Sam but just before we arrived he had been found.
All our sympathies to his owners and thank you to Candice from kenzies k9s and James for their work today in locating him.

"My heart has joined the thousand for my friend stopped running today."

Rest in Peace Sam

The team have been busy training over the past 7 days, and the weather has definitely put the dogs through their paces! ...
15/12/2025

The team have been busy training over the past 7 days, and the weather has definitely put the dogs through their paces! 🌧️🐾 Heavy rain can wash away scent and make tracking much tougher—and we’ve had plenty of it in Cumbria this week.
Here are some of the tracks completed by our handlers and their dogs, with a great mix of lengths, ages, and environments. Awesome work from everyone involved! 👏🐕

Introducing Jo, Sam & Luna - here's a quick chat we had earlier this week! 🔸️WHATS LUNA’S REWARD WHEN SHE’S TRACKING?Lun...
12/12/2025

Introducing Jo, Sam & Luna - here's a quick chat we had earlier this week!

🔸️WHATS LUNA’S REWARD WHEN SHE’S TRACKING?
Luna’s reward is a Tugg-E-nuff Powerball or being allowed to keep tracking

🔸️WHY DID YOU START LOST DOG TRACKING COURSE?
We started LDT as Luna loves using her nose to find things and we wanted to put it to good use.

🔸️WHATS BEEN THE BEST BIT FOR YOU?
The best bit for us is watching Luna’s confidence grow, she was only 10 months old when we did our Level 1 and she was still understanding the world. It’s great to see how excited she is when we meet the team for training, then when we start tracking she’s highly focussed and driven. The team have nicknamed her the Lunatic.

🔸️TELL US SOME THINGS LUNA LIKES?
Luna loves running really fast, she’s happiest when she’s running around on walks. She really enjoys playing with her toys, she’s very good at playing football, she bats the ball with her paws. When she’s not playing football, she adores playing tug. Finally, once she’s tired she enjoys a cuddle and curling up next to you.

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