Building Duration at Source – webinar with Gail McCarthy, CNWI

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Building Duration at Source – webinar with Gail McCarthy, CNWI

Detection Dog Training is all about communication. We condition a dog to hunt for, and to find, a target odor and then to communicate that find to handler.  The mantra that Gail follows is: Hunt, Find, Commit.

In training, the handler should learn to read the dog’s changes of behavior (COBs) which communicate to the handler that the dog has reached source.  However, if the dog’s communication is too fleeting for reasons we will elaborate on, or if you simply are not able to read your dog’s changes of behavior, then it makes it difficult for you to know if you are dog is at source.

While developing the “handler’s eye” is crucial if you want to be a successful detection dog handler, this particular webinar will offer two different training techniques that will encourage your dog to stick more to source when your dog makes a find.  We will do that by making the “find” more and more valuable to the dog. While we do not teach an indication in Nose Work, we will focus on “capturing” a default behavior (with a special emphasis on the “focused nose lock” or “freeze”) which your dog can use to “demand to paid”.  Note, Gails does not teach an “Indication”, but develops a “freeze” as a “demand to be paid.”  The behavior selected as a demand can be anything, even a head-turn, so long as there is some duration built into the behavior.

Gail will also showcase several different pieces of training equipment which elicit that default behavior in the dog and which helps build duration into the default behavior. At the end of the Webinar, Gail will show a dog performing some Interior NW1 level searching with more odor obedience and commitment to scent source.

Gail’s bio: http://www.scentinelnosework.com/about/

Cost:

$30 for PNWI/ANWI/CNWI

$40 for General Public

CEUs:

3 for CNWIs