A stuffed, soft body scent-emitting character (10) formed from a fabric material (12) and filled with a stuffing material to provide volumetric definition of the character with a chamber that receives scent-emittive materials sensible exterior thereof and defining a scent indicia. At least one visual indicia correlated with the scent emittive material attaches to the fabric material and is selected from a group comprising a name indicia and a coloring indicia. The character, receiving the scent emittive material in the chamber, provides a soft toy that emits the scent correlated with the visual indicia.
A dog is trained to hunt by using a unit that resembles a bird first as a toy and then as a training element. The dog identifies the unit as a toy and the training method uses this association to teach the dog to retrieve and point as well as the other skills associated with hunting. The training can begin when the dog is a young puppy.
