Learn About Odor

These are the resources which will help you have a better understanding about odor, which will improve how you design your search areas and tackle searches with your dog.

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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.

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Hide Placement and Odor Movement Seminar Instructor Laurel Scarioni Understanding how odor moves can improve your skills as a handler and trainer and is something all trial officials must understand and use to their advantage when designing searches.

Trial Prep Program

Sniff Busters Webinar Instructor Laurel Scarioni Learn about the common myths and misunderstandings about hide placement and odor movement that can result in issues when training and trialing in Scent Work.

Understanding Odor Theory

Odor Theory: How to Set for the Goal Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie We know we must set hides with purpose and that means having a goal. But how do you actually do that? Setting hides that consistently do what you want is a skill in itself. Learn how to do so by having a better understanding of odor theory with this webinar.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Training Aid Handling and Storage Considerations for Contamination Webinar Instructor Lauryn E. DeGreeff, PhD Learn the importance of proper training aid handling and storage, and will give examples of how faulty protocols can quickly change the odor perceived by your dog.

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Odor Concentrations Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Learn how the concentration of odor works and affects the way your dog hunts, sources, and communicates with you with this webinar.

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Prepping and Storing Odor Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos When it comes to working with the essential oils for Scent Work, there are some important considerations to keep in mind, including how to prepare and store the odor. We discuss this, and more, in this webinar.

Handler Skills Program

Tools to Help Design Your Scent Work Searches Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Wouldn't it be great to visualize what the odor may do in a given search area? Learn tools you can leverage to do just that in this webinar!

Live Webinar

The Smelly Architecture Framework Webinar Date January 5th at 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET (11:00AM MT / 12:00PM CT) Instructor Jason Heng Learn how to turn search architecture into a way to give the dog as much ability as possible to learn, develop our understanding of space, voids, edges, and directions, and gift exploration.

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