Advanced Trialing Skills

You've built a solid foundation in Scent Work and are embarking onto your trialing journey. Ensure you and your dog develop the necessary advanced skills to be successful.

Advanced Trialing Skills
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Skill Specific
Building Endurance in Scent Work Course Instructor Dianna L. Santos Scent Work can be exhausting! Learn how to build your dog's searching, and overall, endurance.
Skill Specific
Building Independence in Scent Work Course Instructor Dianna L. Santos Your dog is the one with the nose and they have to know to trust it and not cue solely off you! So, let's work on building independent hunting!
Skill Specific
Building Speed in Scent Work Course Instructor Dianna L. Santos While every dog is an individual with a unique way of hunting, each can improve their efficiency and speed while searching.
Trial Prep
Building Resiliency in You and Your Dog for Training & Trialing Webinar Instructor Jill Kovacevich Building resilency and the capacity to recover from all things scary for your dog and for YOU is fundamental for any competition sport. This is not just a mindset, it is an in-the-moment understanding that you will fight the fight and survive or fight another day.
Advanced Topics Program
Building an Effective Nosework Training Plan for Dog Owners Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson Breaking down complex ideas into smaller pieces helps our dogs better understand. Learn how you can do this in Nosework, designing effective training plans, with this webinar!
AKC Scent Work Program
AKC Detective Class: Rising to the Challenge Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie The AKC Detective class is a challenging one! This webinar will outline what those challenges are and how teams can better prepare to tackle them head-on.
AKC Scent Work
Be Prepared...For Detective! Course Instructor Judith Guthrie Are you preparing for the upper levels of competition and looking for more structure on how to tackle bigger and more complicated searches? Learn how to address unknown number of hides, complex odor pictures, distractions, time pressure, transitions, coverage decisions, and final-call responsibility with this course.
Common Issues
Conquering Converging Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley Are you and your dog struggling with solving converging odor puzzles? Gain an understanding of what converging is, the various types of converging and learn Tony's step-by-step training plan designed to give your dog the skills they need to conquer converging odor!
Trial Prep Program
Don't Give Up: Building Your Reward Clock Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Does your dog quit, get frustrated or start returning to found hides if they cannot solve an odor puzzle right away? The issue could be their reward clock. Learn how to develop their reward clock with this webinar.
Trial Prep
Detective and Summit: Compare and Prepare Webinar Instructor Holly Bushard Are you interested in competing at the upper levels of AKC Scent Work and NACSW? Learn the unique challenges posed by these two high-level classes, their similarities, their differences and gain insights for how to better prepare for each.
Trial Prep
Don’t Let the Q in Detective be a Sleuth; How to Prep for Success! Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley That oh so elusive Q in Detective! “I missed it by just one” seems to be a statement that goes hand-in-hand with Detective. Learn the skills necessary for the dog and handler to master to be more successful in this challenging class.
Common Issues
Fearless Open Areas with Confidence Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Do large open areas in search area give you anxiety? Unsure how to tackle them? Learn how in this webinar!
Trial Prep Program
Finding the Dog's Motivation in Scent Work Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Our dogs MUST want to use their nose if we have any hope in being successful in Scent Work! Learn ways to identify what motivates your dog in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Inaccessible Hides Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley Inaccessible hides can be tricky for many dog and handler teams. In this webinar, learn how to train for these hides, avoid common pitfalls and how handlers can better read their dogs.
Trial Prep
Let's Look at Leash Work! Webinar Instructor Holly Bushard Do you find using your leash or long line to be stressful, frustrating and downright a messy process? Learn how to work on this crucial skill and be far more effective in using your leash or long line in your searches with this webinar.
General Scent Work
More Than Odor: Environmental Considerations Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie There's more to competing in Scent Work than just the odor. We must learn to prepare for all the vast possible environmental considerations. Learn how in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Nose Poke Alert Webinar Instructor Holly Bushard Explore ways to increase a dog’s excitement about getting to source, staying at source, and communicating about source with this information-packed webinar.
Competitive Success
Now What Do I Do?! How to Build a Dream Scent Work Team Course Instructor Judith Guthrie Diagnose your searches, come up with plan and have the answers to the "when, why and how's" of building YOUR dream Scent Work team!
Learn About Odor
Odor Series Part 3: The Mystery of Strings and Triangles Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Learn how to work these two mystical odor puzzles of strings and triangles. What is happening? Why does your dog miss one consistently? How do you train these puzzles? What can you do as a handler? This webinar will answer all these questions and more.
AKC Scent Work
Officiating AKC SW Trials: Excellent to Detective Virtual Event Instructor Holly Bushard, Tony Gravley, Judith Guthrie, Laurel Scarioni Our roundtable will provide insights helpful for trial officials and competitors alike. Discussion will focus on the Excellent, Master and Detective levels of AKC Scent Work, how to design searches, set "Yes" zones, officiate runs, common pitalls to avoid and much more!
Advanced Topics Program
Passive Alerts: How, Why and Possible Pitfalls Webinar Instructor Michael McManus Many people want a trained final response on their Scent Work dog. In this webinar, Michael discusses what passive alerts really are, how you can go about training them and possible pitfalls to be aware of should you do so.
Trial Prep
Super Sniffers: Preparing for Detective, Elite & Summit Competition Seminar Instructor Laurel Scarioni The top levels of scent competition require teams to possess a wide array of skills and apply them to varied search areas. This seminar can help you prepare!
General Scent Work
The Professional Companion Dog Webinar Instructor Khara Schuetzner Learn the differences and similarities of companion dogs versus professional dogs and some fun games to play with your pup and how to work as a team.
Trial Prep
Train a Freeze Indication Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson In this webinar, Michele will talk about all the steps involved in how to create the behavior of a nose freeze, how to proof it and perhaps most importantly, why and how it could go wrong!
Advanced Topics Program
Training to Plan; Planning to Train Webinar Instructor Michael McManus Being thoughtful trainers is something all Scent Work handlers should strive for. In this webinar, we discuss how to go about building a training plan with our dog.
Trial Prep Program
You Can Crush Pooling Odor! Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley The dreaded pooling odor has been the cause of many painful “NO”s ! Learn how to crush this odor puzzle in this webinar!
Trial Prep
You Can Do It Pup: Building Endurance and Stamina Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos To ensure our dogs can indeed be successful in their searches, we should take steps to build their endurance and stamina. We will discuss ways to do so in this webinar.
Common Issues
You Can Do It Pup: Building Efficiency Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos When it comes to searching, one of our goals is for our dogs to be as efficient and effective as possible. Learn some exercises and approaches in this webinar to weave into your training sessions.
Common Issues
You Can Do It Pup: Building Focus Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos When playing Scent Work with our dogs, we need them to be focused on the task at hand. But there are times, where they are seemingly distracted. "Butterfly!" Learn how to build your dog's focus in this webinar.
Common Issues
You Can Do It Pup: Building Independence Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Does your dog seemingly rely on you in their searches? Learn some techniques to help your dog be more independent, confident, resilient and tenacious in this webinar.
Advanced Topics Program
Zone Training in Nosework Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson The way we set up our searches in training provides an experience for the dog. We want to make sure those experiences curate the type of searcher we’re looking for. Zone training can help.
Trial Prep Program
Who’s Watching Who? Understand the Dog’s Changes of Behaviors (COBs) Webinar Instructor Khara Schuetzner Can you describe 5 out of the 10 changes of behaviors (COBs) your dog exhibits while they're in odor? No worries, you will learn how in this webinar! Join Khara to learn how to identify these COBs and better read and decipher what your dog is telling you during a search.
Trial Prep
But the Judge Said Webinar Instructor Aleks Woodroffe Have you ever received a comment from a Judge after a search and felt proud? Confused? Deflated? Whether written on a scorecard or said in passing, judges sometimes can’t help but share their insights. This webinar focuses on how you can accept, understand, and possibly use those comments.
Trial Prep
Odor Observation: How to Read Your Dog and Become a Proficient Trial Team Webinar Instructor Jill Kovacevich Ask yourself, as a nosework and scentwork handler, how would you rank your skill set to read your dog working odor? Learn how to become a proficient odor observer in this webinar. It is more than "watching" your dog, it is watching your dog work ODOR.
Trial Prep Program
Call Finish: Clearing Your Nosework Search Areas Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson Clearing a search area at trial can be unnerving to say the least. Learn the clues our dogs provide at the very start of the search that can help us more confidently call "Finish" with this webinar.
Trial Prep
Train the Super Hero in Your Elite Dog with Metrics Webinar Instructor Jill Kovacevich Learn how using training metrics can optimize your dog's super hero trialing performances. Jill will discuss how teams can discover their training needs to reach this optimized performance especially when trialing in Elite.
Trial Prep Program
The Goal-Powered Search: Mastering Process & Outcome Goals to Achieve Success in Nose Work Webinar Instructor Silke Wittig Learn the difference between process and outcome goals, how to identify meaningful goals that drive progress to make your training more efficient, measurable and successful in more ways than one in this information-packed webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Mastering the Big Picture: Preparing for Elite & Summit Level Nosework Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson You are embarking on your Elite or Summit journey. Learn how to balance efficiency with thoroughness, develop handling plans that adapt in real time, and build the skills needed to succeed at Elite and Summit level trials.
Competitive Success
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Now What Do I Do?! How to Build a Dream Scent Work Team Course (Student) Instructor Judith Guthrie Diagnose your searches, come up with a plan and have the answers to the "when, why and how's" of building YOUR dream Scent Work team!
Trial Prep Program
Advanced Supportive Handling: Who We Can Become for Our Dogs Webinar Instructor Leah Gangelhoff Gain a better appreciation for the what our dogs are contending with in complex converging odor environments that they encounter in upper-level searches with this webinar. This knowledge will help you be a better supportive handler for your canine partner.
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