Ask yourself, as a Nosework and Scentwork Handler, how would you rank your skill set to read your dog working odor? Do you understand based on observation where and when your dog is in odor or where the dog isn’t in odor? Can you read your dogs’ search behavior, motion, direction or other odor cues and determine what odor may or may not be doing in the search as the search unfolds? Do you use this odor information as communication from your dog to help your dog team solve the odor puzzle and locate source? Do you have “odor intelligence” sufficient to read your dog working to find source in most any search?
Your ability to read odor and apply odor knowledge to your dog's search may be considered a skill set in acquiring odor intelligence. Using your ability to apply odor knowledge to the search, will improve your teams’ capacity to solve complex odor problems with source outcome understanding.
In Nosework we rely on our HUMAN capacity to understand canine olfaction based mostly on visual information. To be a search partner with our dog, its key to gain odor intelligence and increase our ability to acquire and apply odor knowledge to odor problems as the search unfolds from a foundational level to more complex puzzles as trial levels increase and engage with our dog in understanding odor and the pursuit of source.
In this webinar, we will gain information and learn how to become a proficient odor observer - it is more than "watching" your dog, it is watching your dog working ODOR.
We can break down our skill set and build a progression from understanding odor presence, to availability to collection, converging, edges reading our dogs direction, pace, redirection, change points, problem solving and sorting pooling challenges, finding the new next pathway for the not yet found hide and understanding our dogs’ continued pursuit of odor to source culminating with definitive dog decision making at source location.
TO BECOME A PROFICIENT OBSERVER - its more than "watching" your dog- its watching your dog working ODOR.
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CEUS
This webinar has been approved for 2 NACSW CEUs.
