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Where Are Your Successful Repetitions?
We must ensure we are not hampering our dog's ability to succeed in Scent Work due to our own hang-ups, negative emotions and past failures.
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Scent Work University
- Mar 25
- 10 min
When Helping is Actually Hurting
When training in Scent Work, we must avoid the allure to rush in and help our dogs when they merely need time and patience to learn.
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Scent Work University
- Jan 22
- 9 min
Strive for Clarity
With clarity, we can achieve our Scent Work training goals, be it working with our dogs or working with clients as instructors.
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Scent Work University
- Dec 29, 2021
- 7 min
Odor is Not Fully Contained in Containers
We must recognize that odor is dynamic and will interact with the totality of the space, including with container searches.
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Scent Work University
- Dec 15, 2021
- 8 min
What Are You Teaching, Really?
Are your Scent Work training exercises teaching what you think they are teaching, or is your dog learning something else entirely?
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Scent Work University
- Nov 11, 2021
- 6 min
Get Your Praise On
Picture this: you are tasked with a super complicated and challenging project at work. Tackling this project has forced you to use all...
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Scent Work University
- Oct 29, 2021
- 7 min
Knowing The “Why” Matters
Mindlessly mimicking what we see instructors, speakers or other dog and handler teams do can be our downfall in Scent Work.
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Scent Work University
- Sep 12, 2021
- 9 min
Scent Work is Not the Sole Solution
Solutions for issues you may be encountering in Scent Work may exist OUTSIDE of Scent Work entirely. We discuss in this blog post.
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Scent Work University
- Aug 8, 2021
- 6 min
Partnerships Are Unique
You may be embarking on Scent Work with your second, third, fourth or fifth dog. Each partnership you have is a unique, embrace this.
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Scent Work University
- Jul 22, 2021
- 6 min
How You Start and Finish Matters
Handlers are oftentimes quite focused on what is happening during a search itself but overlook what happens before and afterwards.
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Scent Work University
- Apr 11, 2021
- 5 min
Reusing The Same Hide Location When Practicing - Yay or Nay?
We strongly encourage all dog owners to be thinking trainers, considering whether a piece of training advice will work for them and their...
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Scent Work University
- Mar 22, 2021
- 6 min
Open Containers...What Is That All About?!
Are open containers in training something you should do in Scent Work? What is the value!? Let's find out!
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Scent Work University
- Feb 21, 2021
- 5 min
Trials and Tribulations of Being a Dog Handler
We oftentimes overlook how challenging it is to be a handler in any dog sport, Scent Work included. Essentially, handlers must learn all...
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Scent Work University
- Jan 31, 2021
- 7 min
Where We See a Tree, Our Dog Sees a Forest
As humans, we tend to be laser-focused when training, attempting to parse out tiny and minute details to work on and perfect. Scent Work...
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Scent Work University
- Nov 8, 2020
- 4 min
Searching Planes
No, I do not mean the types of planes that fly through the sky, although competitors have indeed searched grounded and out-of-commission...
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Scent Work University
- Oct 15, 2020
- 5 min
When NOT to Play Scent Work
That’s right, there are indeed times you may want to steer away from playing formal Scent Work with your pup.
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Scent Work University
- Sep 18, 2020
- 8 min
It's Scent Work, Not Stuff Work!
How often are you scoping out "stuff" when designing your Scent Work searches?
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Scent Work University
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
Are You Using the Right Reward?
We must be ready to analyze whether we are using the right reward when doing Scent Work with our dogs.
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Scent Work University
- Jul 14, 2020
- 4 min
Being a Thinking Trainer
Being a thinking and mindful trainer is what separate spectacular teams from mediocre ones.
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Scent Work University
- Jun 4, 2020
- 5 min
Maintain Your Sense of Awe
The fact that our dogs have the magical abilities to hunt out odors is amazing and incredible - do not lose your sense of awe!
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