Detoxifying Distractors! Webinar
Instructor
Holly Bushard
Do intentional distractors have you down? Are you stressed out trying to distinguish between snack interest and an alert? Maybe you’re just looking for a few fresh and fun “gamified” drills! If so, consider joining us for a night of exploring multifaceted ways to detoxify the distractor downers!
Common Issues
Squirrel! From Distracted to Committed: Reading, Training, and Recovering the Search Webinar
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.
Proofing
Find Your Hide - Proofing for Food and Toys Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
The most common planned distractors found within Scent Work search areas are food and toy distractors. Proofing our dogs off these distractors is a key element to any training program. Learn how to do just that in this webinar.
Advanced Topics Program
Proofing v. Trick Questions eBook
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
In this eBook we will highlight the stark difference between thoughtful and mindful proofing exercises and trick questions, the latter which may confuse, demotivate or frustrate the dog. Additionally, we will provide sample proofing exercises you may do with your dog.
Common Issues
Conquer the Boogeyman in Your Searches Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Vertical spaces. Distractors, planned and unplanned. Huge search areas. Doing searches on-leash. Regardless of the boogeyman in your Scent Work training, we will discuss how you can confront and conquer it in this webinar!
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.
Proofing
Intelligent Disobedience...SAY WHAT?!?!? Webinar
Instructor
Judith Guthrie
Ever heard of intelligent disobedience? Want to know what it is? How to implement it? Why you may need it?
Proofing
Find Your Hide - Proofing for Crittering Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Does crittering in your searches get you down? It is understandable, critters are super interesting to our dogs! Learn how you to help them value finding their target hides more than the potential critter activity within their search areas.
Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Container Searches Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Do you struggle with blind Container searches? Find out why false alerts occur and possible training solutions in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Interior Searches Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Do you struggle with blind Interior searches? Find out why false alerts occur and possible training solutions in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Buried Hides Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Do you struggle in the AKC Buried Class, calling false alerts left and right!? Find out why and ways to work on it in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Exterior Searches Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Do you struggle with blind Exterior searches? Find out why false alerts occur and possible training solutions in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Vehicle Searches Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Do you struggle with blind Vehicle searches? Find out why false alerts occur and possible training solutions in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Handler Discrimination Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Are you calling false alerts when tackling the AKC Handler Discrimination class? Find out why and what to work on to avoid those false alerts in this webinar.
All About the Box; A Detailed Look at Container Searches Webinar
Instructor
Dana Zinn
Containers have proven to be one of the most challenging elements in nose work for many teams. Find out why and how you may be more successful in this detailed webinar.
Trial Prep Program
All About the Box: Part 2 Webinar
Instructor
Dana Zinn
In this webinar, Dana returns to discuss why container searches can vex so many teams, including discussing distractors and how to take the guesswork when tackling this search element.
Common Issues
Back to Foundations: Containers Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
We oftentimes hear the term, "go back to foundations" when it comes to training in Scent Work. Learn what this means, the benefits and how to go about it regarding our cotnainer searches in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Beyond Dog Driven Container Search Webinar
Instructor
Michele Ellertson
You’ve mastered the dog-driven container search and made it through NW1, NW2 and NW3 but find yourself a bit lost when it comes to large container searches in elite and upper levels? Maybe the containers were scattered in your last trial and your dog-driven pattern fell apart? This webinar is for you!
Trial Prep Program
Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Container Searches Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Do you struggle with blind Container searches? Find out why false alerts occur and possible training solutions in this webinar.
Foundation
Leveraging Containers for Life Course
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Did you know that you can introduce a whole array of odor puzzles and challenges simply using containers? We will do just that in this course!
Trial Prep Program
The Dog-Driven Container: The Why and The How Webinar
Instructor
Michele Ellertson
Learn how to train a dog-driven pattern as a way for the dog to find success and not frustration when tackling their container searches.
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.
Be Strategic: Breaking Down the NACSW Walk Through Webinar
Instructor
Tony Gravley
Learn how to extract critical information from the NACSW Trial Walk Through videos. The type of information that separates those teams who simply run a search at a trial from those who tackle the very same search strategically.
Read Your Dog
What Did Ya Say: Learning to Read Your Dog Seminar
Instructor
Tony Gravley
Your dog is constantly communicating during the search, the real question is whether you understand what they are saying. Join Tony for this information-packed seminar as he breaks down the behaviors handlers commonly see but often struggle to interpret when both training and trialing.
Trial Prep Program
Know Your Role: The Handler’s Role in Trialing Webinar
Instructor
Tony Gravley
We can quite literally derail an otherwise fantastic search at trial when we step out of our lane and, well, forget to remember our role! Learn what your role is at Scent Work trials and how to best support your canine partner in this informative webinar.
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.
Handler Skills
Know Your Role: The Handler’s Role in Training Webinar
Instructor
Tony Gravley
Do we have a role when training Scent Work with our dogs? YES! If we step out of our lane, this can cause our dogs to become confused, frustrated or demotivated by the search. Learn how to better understand your role in this webinar.
Handler Skills
Language of Nose Work: Reading Your Dog Webinar
Instructor
Michael McManus and Natalie McManus
Learning how to read our dogs is a necessary skill for every Scent Work handler to master. See how you can go about doing this in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Nerves Poisoning the Fun Webinar
Instructor
Silke Wittig
Are you a nervous competitor? Do you find yourself dreading trialing? Is your anxiety starting to chip away at your joy for the sniffing game? This webinar will offer some approaches that are designed just for you!
Trial Prep Program
Tony's Strategic Insights: Evaluating NACSW Virtual Walkthrough Videos (July 2026) Webinar
Instructor
Tony Gravley
Are you ready to apply the skills covered in the Be Strategic: Breaking Down the NACSW Walk Through Webinar? Perfect! Join us for this live webinar and put your skills to the test!
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!
Odor Series Part 2: Convergence Webinar
Instructor
Judith Guthrie
Learn what convergence is, what it looks like, and the best ways to help your dog learn how to be the best puzzle solver they can be in this webinar.
General Scent Work
Components of Scent Work: Handler Communication Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
The final installment in this webinar series, we discuss the importance of handler communication, how it can affect the totality of the search, ways to develop, finetune and maintain this skill and more.
Trial Prep
Odor Drive: How To Train to Maintain Webinar
Instructor
Jill Kovacevich
Let's discuss odor drive! Enjoy an in depth discussion on what odor drive is, why it is important for scent detection sport dogs, how we can assess what drive gear our dogs are in when they are searching, when to train odor drive and how to maintain it.
Trial Prep Program
Patterns: CSI to Novice Detection Webinar
Instructor
Bill Gaskins
Search patterns will vary, but they share a common goal: organization and structure to ensure no items or productive areas are missed. Learn how hide placement, search area context, and reward history matters in building a dog who is organized and thorough as they search.
Trial Prep Program
All About the Box; A Detailed Look at Container Searches Webinar
Instructor
Dana Zinn
Containers have proven to be one of the most challenging elements in nose work for many teams. Find out why and how you may be more successful in this detailed webinar.
Trial Prep Program
All About Brackets Webinar
Instructor
Michele Ellertson
In this webinar, Michele will discuss the differences between all brackets styles including how bracketing looks when a dog is working an inaccessible and elevated hide!
Cyber Scent Work
Let's Play: Focused Fido Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Handlers can act rather strangely at a Scent Work trial due to nerves and this can trip up their dogs. Learn how to train your dog to ignore your weirdness in this webinar.
Cyber Scent Work
Let's Play: Sniffing Speedster Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
The Sniffing Speedster Game tests the dog's ability to be efficient and effective in their searches. In this webinar, learn how you can train and prepare to ace this Game.
General Scent Work
Components of Scent Work: Dog Communication Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
In this webinar, we will delve into the crucial component of our dog's communication to us as they are tackling a Scent Work search, how this goes beyond a final trained response and much more.
Trial Prep Program
Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Exterior Searches Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Do you struggle with blind Exterior searches? Find out why false alerts occur and possible training solutions in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Decoding Toy Obsession in Your Searches Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Do you fret whenever there is a planned toy distractor in your search area? Does your dog seemingly forget all about their hide and become obsessive with the toy instead? Learn why this may happen and possible training solutions in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
All-Level Trial Prep Webinar
Instructor
Lori Timberlake
When training for trial, there are so many skills to work on that are not just for the level you are currently trialing at!
Trial Prep Program
Conquering Competition Stress Webinar
Instructor
Michael McManus
Does your dog perform great at home and at class, but under-perform at trial? Do you struggle to reproduce the problems you have at trial in training? Perhaps the real issues is your inability to cope and deal with competition stress. In this webinar, Michael will walk you through how you can turn competition stress from a negative to a positive.
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.
General Scent Work
Hierarchy of Behavior Webinar
Instructor
Judith Guthrie
Hierarchy of behavior is your dog's understanding of the rules of life and how they fit into it, affecting their decision-making in sometimes unexpected ways.
Common Issues
Box Smashers Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Do you dread doing container searches with your dog since they love to smash the boxes? Learn some tips to counter this commonplace behavior in this webinar.
Learn About Odor
Odor Series Part 1: Hierarchy of Found and Unfound Odor Webinar
Instructor
Judith Guthrie
Odor obedience is essential in Scent Work, but what do you build afterwards, especially when it comes to working multi-hide searches? Learn in 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.
High-Drive Dogs
Keep Your Head: Maintaining Good Arousal in Nosework Webinar
Instructor
Michele Ellertson
Finding your dog's ideal arousal level in Scent Work is crucial, so they are not over-aroused and unable to think or focus. Learn helpful techniques with this webinar!
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.
Trial Prep
Learning, and Moving On, From Trial Mishaps Webinar
Instructor
Dana Zinn
Let’s face it, most of us have had things not go perfectly in competition. Many times, the challenge is figuring out which were preventable, and which were anomalies. Learn common issues teams experience at trial and how to learn from them.
Trial Prep
Hunt Drive Webinar
Instructor
Tony Gravley
What is actual hunt drive? Does your dog have adequate hunt drive and how can you get the most out of your dogs hunt drive? Learn all of this and more in this informative webinar.
General Scent Work
Intro to Mastering Vehicles Seminar
Instructor
Tony Gravley
Is your dog just getting started in vehicle searches? Perhaps you have been tackling vehicle searches for awhile but are struggling. This seminar is what you have been looking for!
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.
Trial Prep Program
Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Buried Hides Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Do you struggle in the AKC Buried Class, calling false alerts left and right!? Find out why and ways to work on it in this webinar.
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.
AKC Scent Work
Gettin' Ready to Trial: AKC Advanced Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Having earned your AKC Novice title, you are ready to move up to Advanced. Learn the skills you and your dog need to succeed.
AKC Scent Work
Gettin' Ready to Trial: AKC Novice Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
You and your dog have been training in Scent Work for a bit and are loving it. The thought crosses your mind, "Maybe we can start to trial!" Learn the skills you both will need to succeed at an AKC Novice level trial with this webinar.
Trial Prep
Games for Maintenance Webinar
Instructor
Michele Ellertson
Remember when you first introduced the game of Nose Work to your dog and they loved it, excited and driven to play? Learn how to further build and maintain this drive all throughout their Nose Work journey in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
The Dog-Driven Container: The Why and The How Webinar
Instructor
Michele Ellertson
Learn how to train a dog-driven pattern as a way for the dog to find success and not frustration when tackling their container searches.
Trial Prep Program
Elevated Hides Webinar
Instructor
Tony Gravley
Elevated hides commonly trip up many dog and handler teams. In this webinar, Tony will highlight how to help dogs better understand and tackle elevated hides.
Canine Body Behavior
Canine Body Behavior and Scent Work for Handlers Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
We oftentimes hear how "reading your dog" is essential in Scent Work, but we must hone our eye outside the context of our dogs working odor too!
Trial Prep Program
Develop Trial Mind: Decision Making in the Fire Webinar
Instructor
Judith Guthrie
Scent Work trials are fraught with decisions the handler must make a moment's notice. Learn how you can do this without folding under the pressure with this webinar.
NASDA
Introduction to NASDA's Shed Dog Class Webinar
Instructor
Donna Morgan Murray
You've heard about NASDA's Shed Dog Class, but what is it all about and how would you train a dog to find and retrieve antlers? Find out in this webinar!
Proofing
Find Your Hide - Proofing for Messy Odor Profile Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
Our goal is for our dogs to go into a space and locate all of the hides...but do they REALLY know that they are hunting for? Providing clarity should be a cornerstone of our training program. Learn how to provide this clarity in this webinar.
Proofing
Find Your Hide - Proofing for Food and Toys Webinar
Instructor
Dianna L. Santos
The most common planned distractors found within Scent Work search areas are food and toy distractors. Proofing our dogs off these distractors is a key element to any training program. Learn how to do just that in this webinar.
Skills Beyond Odor
Elevation Elation: Build and Use Body Awareness Webinar
Instructor
Vicky Lovejoy
Does your dog struggle with elevated hides? It could be due to a lack of body awareness. In this webinar, learn how to help your dog develop their physical and mental skills to better tackle and conquer their elevated hides.
Trial Prep
Mastering Multiple Hides Webinar
Instructor
Michael McManus
Do you want a step-by-step guide to how we teach our own dogs to do multiple hides? Learn how to take the conflict out of multiple hides, starting with building stickiness, and then following a procedure that introduces each new concept slowly and clearly.
Trial Prep Program
How to Make Your Trial Official (and Instructor) Cringe Webinar
Instructor
Michele Ellertson
Our nerves can cause us to do crazy things at a Scent Work trial...some of which make trial officials cringe. Find out how to avoid these pitfalls and have smiling officials instead!
Trial Prep Program
Beyond Dog Driven Container Search Webinar
Instructor
Michele Ellertson
You’ve mastered the dog-driven container search and made it through NW1, NW2 and NW3 but find yourself a bit lost when it comes to large container searches in elite and upper levels? Maybe the containers were scattered in your last trial and your dog-driven pattern fell apart? This webinar is for you!
