Advanced Trialing Skills - Webinars – Scent Work University

Advanced Trialing Skills - Webinars

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.

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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.

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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 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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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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

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.

Live Webinar

Advanced Supportive Handling: Who We Can Become for Our Dogs Webinar Date September 17th at 2:00PM PT / 5:00PM ET (3:00PM MT / 4:00PM CT) 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.

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.

Live Webinar

Tony's Strategic Insights: Strategizing Large Search Areas Webinar Date August 18th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM CT (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Tony Gravley Have watched a video walkthrough for a large search area and had a feeling of dread wash over you? Never fear! In this webinar, Tony will highlight ways to strategically evaluate these larger spaces so you and your dog can confidently tackle them as a team.

Live Webinar

Find It. Own It. Get Paid. Webinar Date September 2nd at 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET (11:00AM MT / 12:00PM CT) Instructor Michele Ellertson Learn why some dogs leave source too quickly, disconnect after the find, or show unclear communication, and how to build stronger commitment through intentional training.

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.

Live Webinar

Stay at That Hide: Building Stickiness Between Communication and Handler Response Date September 23rd at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Judith Guthrie Can your dog communicate source and hold the answer long enough for you to respond? Learn how to build duration, clarity, confidence, and independence at source so the dog can hold the answer while the handler reads the behavior, moves, thinks, calls, or rewards.

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.

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!

Live Webinar

Squirrel! From Distracted to Committed: Reading, Training, and Recovering the Search Webinar Date August 19th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Judith Guthrie Distractor behavior tells you what changed in the search. Learn how to how to read distractor interest, understand how distractors affect hunt, odor work, decision-making, and recovery, train stronger task commitment, and help the dog return to productive searching when competing reinforcement, environmental pressure, or handler choices change the dog’s search.

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.

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.

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