Prep and Excel at Trial

You are interested in competing or are already competing in Scent Work trials, how exciting! The resources offered in this program are designed to ensure you, your dog and your team are prepared to tackle the challenges posed at trial.

These training resources will be helpful across a variety of competition venues, but there are several thar are venue-specific.

Are you looking for one-on-one coaching or support for your team? Contact us and we will provide you with some customized suggestions!

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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.

General Scent Work

Components of Scent Work: Hunting Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos In this webinar, we will discuss the importance of building our dog's value in the hunt itself, how doing so will build a resilient and tenacious hunter who will dig in deep to solve their odor puzzles.

General Scent Work

Components of Scent Work: Sourcing Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos For our dogs to succeed in Scent Work, they must build and maintain their sourcing skills. Afterall, we care about where odor is coming from not where it is traveling to! Learn how we can do this in this webinar.

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.

Proofing

Find Your Hide - Proofing for Dog Odor Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Do you dread it when there is a possibility of dog odor in your search area? Does it seem as though your dog become obsessed and forgets about hunting for target odor? This webinar is for you!

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.

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.

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!

Learn About 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.

Learn About Odor

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.

Trial Prep Program

Trial Prep for Reactive Dogs Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Scent Work is a unique dog sport in that it is open to reactive dogs. However, a Scent Work trial can be rather challenging for reactive dogs...triggers abound! Learn a variety of exercises, routines and tips to help your reactive dog be more successful at a Scent Work trial with this webinar.

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.

Reactive Dogs

Stress-Free Learning and Trialing with a Reactive Dog Webinar Instructor Christina Young In this webinar, Christina will discuss and illustrate strategies and games to help you and your dog navigate the challenges of taking a reactive dog to a Scent Work class or trial.

Reactive Dogs

Primary, Paired and Odor Hides: Choosing the Hide for the Training Challenge Webinar Instructor Christina Young When it comes to our reactive, sensitive or less-confident dogs, we want to ensure we are setting them up for success during training. This includes mindfully choosing the hide type they are hunting for. Learn how to do just that in this webinar.

Trial Prep Program

Scent Work for Sensitive Dogs Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Sensitive dogs can greatly benefit from playing Scent Work. Learn how and what types of special considerations you should keep in mind when working with these dogs, in this webinar.

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!

Live Webinar

When Dog Odor Trumps Target Odors: Dogs are Scary Webinar Date July 6th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) 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!

Instructor Program

Canine Body Behavior and Scent Work for Instructors Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos As Instructors, we must understand canine body behavior so that we may properly support and advocate for our canine clients.

Live Webinar

When Dog Odor Trumps Target Odor: Sexy Time Webinar Date July 13th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Dianna L. Santos Does it seem as though your dog always has sexy time on the brain? They come upon dog odor and suddenly they are drooling, chattering and thinking of everything but finding their hide? This webinar is for you!

Learn About Odor

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.

Common Issues

Wait...Did You Find a Hide?! Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Does your dog buzz around the search area seemingly finding hides without telling you? Learn some solutions with this webinar.

Common Issues

Go Find a New Hide, Please Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Does your dog get stuck a hide they already found? Learn why this happens and how to help them move on to find new hides.

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.

Common Issues

All About Balance: Ways to Build Sniffing Stamina Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos You've been officially bit by the Scent Work bug! You are taking classes, workshop, seminars, going to Sniff N' Gos and trials, so much sniffing goodness! But what about your pup? Sure, they love the sniffy game, but can they keep up with all the sniffy plans you have for them?!

Trial Prep Program

Training Blank Areas Webinar Instructor Michael and Natalie McManus While blank searches are usually considered an “NW3” concept, they can be important at every level of the dog’s development. Worried about messing up your dog with blank searches? Learn how to use blank area in training and better read your dog in competition with this webinar.

Common Issues

You Can Do It Pup: Building Independence Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Does your dog seemingly rely on you in their searches? Learn some techniques to help your dog be more independent, confident, resilient and tenacious in this webinar.

Common Issues

You Can Do It Pup: Building Focus Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos When playing Scent Work with our dogs, we need them to be focused on the task at hand. But there are times, where they are seemingly distracted. "Butterfly!" Learn how to build your dog's focus in this webinar.

NASDA

Becoming a NASDA Judge Webinar Instructor Donna Morgan Murray Are you considering becoming a Judge with NASDA? Perhaps you have been competing, loving the sport and are looking for a way to give back. This webinar is precisely what you have been looking for!

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!

NASDA

NASDA: Trailing and Locating Webinar Instructor Donna Morgan Murray Are you getting prepared to tackle the trailing and locating class in NASDA? Learn how to better prepare in this webinar.

NASDA

Getting Started in NASDA: Tips for New Exhibitors Webinar Instructor Donna Morgan Murray You've heard of NASDA, but how can you get started? This webinar is for you! Learn all the tips and tricks to get started, from registering your dog, finding trials, the rules, the annual and lifetime points and so much more!

AKC Scent Work

AKC Scent Work: Handler Discrimination Course Instructor Dianna L. Santos Help your dog learn to find an article with your odor on it, proof them from potential distractors and prepare for trial.

Odor Puzzles

Single Hide Searches Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos There are many handlers who assume every search area must have multiple hides. Nothing could be further from the truth! Single hide searches can be extremely helpful in a variety of ways! We discuss this and provide you some tips to try in this webinar.

Odor Puzzles

Multi-Hide Searches Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Setting up multi-hide searches can be greatly beneficial for our dogs. We discuss how and why you should weave these types of searches into your training program in this webinar.

NASDA Program

NASDA: Urban Locating Webinar Instructor Donna Morgan Murray Are you getting prepared to tackle the Urban Locating class in NASDA? Learn how to better prepare in this webinar.

NASDA Program

NASDA Upper-Level Lost Item Webinar Instructor Donna Morgan Murray Getting prepared to tackle the upper-level of the Lost Item class in NASDA? Learn how to better prepare in this webinar.

NASDA Program

NASDA: Upper-Level Shed Hunt Webinar Instructor Donna Morgan Murray Are you getting prepared to tackle the upper-level shed hunt class in NASDA? Learn how to better prepare in this webinar.

NASDA Program

Introduction to NASDA's Lost Item Recovery Class Webinar Instructor Donna Morgan Murray Learn what is involved in the NASDA Lost Item Recovery Class and how to train your dog to find scented articles in this webinar.

NASDA Program

NASDA: A Rapidly Growing Canine Scent Sport Webinar Instructor Donna Morgan Murray Find out more about this exciting newer canine scent sport organization, understand the rules and learn why you should get involved with your dog!

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.