I was curious, I figured you could...just made me nervous thinking about a your dog being way out front and getting hit by a car.
That�s actually a really big concern for trackers who run �off lead� and why many folks won�t do it. I�ve heard stories of several dogs being run over just this year. The Garmin Alpha Unit is a pretty new setup I believe. I think it�s only been out a few years and it seems to just be catching on amongst the tracking community. Up until it came out I think the only way to call your dog back was with a whistle or voice command. The bad thing about that though is that a dog, especially a young one, still has the choice to obey or not. When the dogs get their prey drive triggered or they get really into the tracking�..it becomes a lot harder to get them to listen to you. I saw that with Otis when he would get after squirrels here at the house and why I was very nervous to track off lead. With that Alpha Unit though, you can control the dog out to long distances and the ones I�ve seen worked on it don�t even question it for a second. It�s about like having push button brakes on your dog.
