During this exciting roundtable, the panelists will be posed with (3) scenarios/issues and they will discuss their perferred training solution. A group discussion will then follow, working through a potential of hypotheticals, possible subsequent issues, how to work through them and much more.
PANEL OF SPEAKERS
Holly Bushard, Kayla Dever, Tony Gravley, Michael McManus, Natalie McManus, Nancy Reyes
THREE SCENARIOS
1. Handler reports their dog finds a hide and immediately shoots off. The dog is too subtle for the handler to read. The handler has attempted to return the dog to a hide so they would better communicate, however the dog refuses to do either. This happens in training and at trial. The team easily earned their ORT, NW1 and AKC Novice titles but are now struggling in AKC Advanced and NW2.
2. Handler reports their dog was flat when training and trialing in Scent Work. Handler decided to switch from using food rewards to toy rewards. Now the dog is too high, exhibiting a total lack of focus when searching, screaming at the start line, barking at the handler throughout and offering aggressive alerts if the toy is not immediately provided. Any attempts to revert back to using food rewards caused the dog to quit or not search at all.
3. Handler reports their dog suddenly started offering false alerts, obsessing about distractors and marking in the search area at trial. However these issues are not apparent when training. The team has been training for a while and competes at the upper-levels in multiple venues.
CEUS
This webinar has been approved for 2 NACSW CEUs.
LIVE VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM
Join us on July 18th at 4:30PM PT/5:30PM MT/6:30PM CT/7:30PM ET for the live event where you may ask our roundtable questions in real-time and receive free, continual access to the fully edited replay.
VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM REPLAY
Cannot make the live event? No worries! Order the event replay and go through the presentation at your own pace. There are no deadlines, cut-off dates or expiration dates to worry about. We fully edit all of our live event, thus the replay will be posted to the Scent Work University site by the end of the day on July 19th.
