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Toys for Nosework: How, When and Why Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson Are you and your dog interested in rewarding with toys in Nosework but are unsure where to begin? Figure out the how, when and why with this webinar, to ensure you are effectively playing with your dog, gaining the benefits and avoiding the common pitfalls!

Trial Prep Program

What to Do: Days After the Trial Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Opportunities abound in the days immediately after attending a trial. We discuss what these are and how to identify what will work best for you and your dog in this webinar.

Common Issues

Back to Foundations: Exteriors Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos It can be so easy to get swooped up into setting snazzy and flashy exterior searches but ensuring your dog has solid foundations is crucially important! Learn why and how to incorporate these foundation exercises into your routine with this webinar.

General Scent Work

Masterful Mazes Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Mazes can be an excellent tool in your Scent Work training toolbox! Learn the benefits of mazes, how you can leverage them and ideas to help inspire you to create your own in this webinar.

Sensitive Dogs

Be Brave: Using Scent Work to Build Confidence Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Scent Work is an amazing activity and we can leverage it to help our dogs build their confidence. Learn how in this webinar.

Common Issues

My Head Hurts: Dealing with Frustration Threshold in Scent Work Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Solving odor puzzles is hard! Many dogs will give up on challenging searches when they meet their frustration threshold. Learn how to help these dogs stick with the puzzle instead, even when their heads hurt.

Trial Prep Program

Scent Work for Reactive Dogs Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Scent Work is an amazing activity for all dogs, but especially for reactive dogs. Learn how you can ensure this activity is beneficial and safe for reactive dogs.

Trial Prep Program

Blast Busters Webinar Instructor Holly Bushard Are you struggling with your dog blasting off from the start line as if a rocket were strapped to them? Learn how to help our over-the-top dogs come off of the start-line focused on odor in this webinar.

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!

Trial Prep Program

Influence of Dog's Reactivity on their Scent Work Training and Trialing Webinar Instructor Sue Sternberg Can a dog’s temperament qualities influence their performance at a Scent Work trial? Does a dog’s reactivity with other dogs affect their distractibility during searches? Sue will discuss this and more in this webinar!

Trial Prep Program

It's What’s Inside that Counts: A Study of Interior Searches Webinar Instructor Dana Zinn Interior searches can be tricky for many teams. Learn all the ins and outs, from hide placement to training and trialing Interiors with 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.

Live Webinar

Puppy Series: Part 3 - From Hunt to Search Webinar Date September 9th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Judith Guthrie Your puppy is hunting, solving, and staying in the task. The next step is helping the puppy begin to use that hunt in simple search setups. Learn how in this webinar!

Trial Prep Program

Terrific Teamwork: Searches Built on Trust Webinar Instructor Adam Skandarani Are you struggling at trial with disengagement, displacement, or discouragement? Strengthening your teammwork can be the key. Learn ways to do just that in this webinar.

Trial Prep Program

Performance Redefined: Agility to Nosework Webinar Instructor Vicky Lovejoy Agility requires handler focus whereas Nosework demands an entirely different dynamic between dog and handler. In this webinar, learn how to help overcome these challenges and make for a smoother transition from agility to Nosework.

Common Issues

Dogs are Scary: Dog Odor v Target Odor Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Do you have a sensitive dog who worries about other dogs? If they know other dogs are in the area, do they become obsessive about dog odor, even during their searches? If so, this webinar is for you!

Common Issues

What's the Issue: Vehicles Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Do you and your dog find Vehicle searches challenging and frustrating? Figuring out WHY will help you better devise a training solution. We discuss how you can do just that in this webinar.

Skills Beyond Odor

Car Crate Crazy Webinar Instructor Kayla Dever and Samantha Winslow Does your dog struggle to settle in their car crate or in a standalone crate? This can have a negative impact of the effectiveness of their search. Find helpful solutions in this webinar!

Field Trip Training

Field Trip Training On Your Own Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Field trip training is an important part of any Scent Work training regiment. The question is: are you getting the most out of these sessions when you are training on your own.

Trial Prep Program

Use the Wind Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Learn how to design exercises that fully leverage airflow and wind in your Scent Work training sessions in this webinar.

Instructor Program

Instructors: Bark Less, Teach More Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Are you a Scent Work instructor? Then this webinar is for you! We will discuss ways instructors can be more effective in communicating with their human clients, setting them up to be more successful and enjoying the process.

Intro to Odor Program

Pairing: Why and How Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos A powerful training technique, we delve into what pairing is, why we use it and how you can incorporate it into your own Scent Work training.

Proofing

Don't Take Me Personally: Tips for Handler Proofing Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie In this webinar, we will talk about what handler proofing is, when to use it, when you might not want to use it, and discuss some strategies for how to start teaching this vital skill.

Trial Prep Program

Start Lines: From Beginning to End Webinar Instructor Lori Timberlake Your start lines matter and can shape the entirety of your search! Learn how and the ways to ensure your start line routine is as good as possible in this webinar.

Senior Dog Program

Senior Dog Searches Webinar Instructor Vicky Lovejoy Working with a senior dog in Scent Work can come with special considerations. Learn how we can adjust our training approaches, outline the types of exercises to try, which organizations to compete with, whether retirement is an option and more to help our senior dogs still be successful as they play the sniffing game.

Trial Prep Program

Pairing: Use to Prep for Trialing Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos In preparing to tackle a trial, you are wondering how you can build your dog's enthusiasm and clarity for the game. Learn how to leverage pairing to do this and more in this webinar.

Trial Official Program

Training Hide v. Trialing Hide Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Scent Work trial officials must undertake the monumental task of designing appropriate searches for competitors to tackle. This means they must understand the difference between "training" and "trialing" hides.

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.

Trial Prep Program

Trial Prep for Sensitive Dogs Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Scent Work is a wonderful activity in that it can help sensitive dogs gain new confidence. Trialing may even be in these dog's future, however these events can be rather challenging environments for any dog to deal with, not to mention a sensitive dog!

General Scent Work

Components of Scent Work: Value of Odor Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos We need our dogs to value the odor they are tasked to hunt for in their Scent Work searches. Learn how to build and maintain their value in this webinar.

Trial Prep

From Easily Frustrated to Joyful Searchers Webinar Instructor Vicky Lovejoy High-arousal dogs can easily become frustrated and overwhelmed in their searches. Learn techniques in this webinar to help these dogs develop more resilience and focus.

Trial Prep Program

Why Stress is Good Webinar Instructor Michael McManus and Natalie McManus Dogs and handlers encounter stress both within and outside their searches. Learn how to better cope with this stress using targeted exercises meant for both ends of leash 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.

Live Webinar

Cycle of the Hunt: Reading the Full Search Sequence Webinar Date October 14th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Judith Guthrie Do you understand the sequence of behaviors your dog moves through during a search, and how those behaviors fit into the phases of the search? Learn how to better recognize what is going well, identify where the cycle is breaking down, and make more targeted training decisions.

Live Webinar

The Power of Purposeful Goal Setting in Dog Sports and Life Webinar Date September 8th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Teah Anders Do you have goals you want to achieve but feel unsure where to begin? Do you have projects or ideas that keep getting pushed aside despite your best intentions? This webinar is precisely what you are looking for!

Instructor Program

Part 2 - Instructors: Assessing the Handler Seminar Instructor Dianna L. Santos There are two ends to every leash. The human handler is a crucial part of the Scent Work team! In this seminar, learn how best to assess your human clients skillsets, what they need to continue to progress and considerations to keep in mind when creating customized training solutions.

Instructor Program

Part 1 - Instructors: Assessing the Dog Seminar Instructor Dianna L. Santos As instructors, it is our duty to properly identify and meet the needs of our canine clients. However, this requires that we properly assess who they are, their skill level, what training tools and approaches will work best. We will discuss ways to do just that in this seminar.

Common Issues

Back to Foundations: Vehicles Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Vehicle searches can be challenging for dog and handler alike. Ensuring your foundation is solid is the key to success. Learn why and how to implement helpful foundation exercises with this webinar.

Common Issues

Back to Foundations: Interiors Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Does your dog really understand how to tackle an interior search? Are their foundations solid? Learn how to tell and how to better leverage foundation Interior searches in this webinar.

Trial Prep Program

Intentional Practice for the Extreme Webinar Instructor Vicky Lovejoy Help your dog develop the skills they need to tackle a variety of searches regardless of what the search area throws at them. Great for trial-prep or simply taking your sniffing game to the next level.

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