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Distraction Camp 2024 Hot Wash!
What to listen for: “Every distraction is a possible reinforcement.” Could minor changes in your training strategy routine drastically...
Aug 6, 2024


The Importance of Known Hides
What to listen for: “Even if you don't give them a cookie, you don't play, the dog has been reinforced. [It’s] just the way their brain...
Jul 30, 2024


Talking Detection Dogs with Adee Schoon Pt 2
What to listen for: “So I think dog training is almost 90% thinking and preparing, and 10% working with your dog.” Two of our three...
Jul 16, 2024


Talking Detection Dogs with Adee Schoon Pt 1
What to listen for: “When you're with your dog, you're working with the dog, and when he's resting, he's resting, and don't ask him to...
Jun 18, 2024


Troubleshooting Your Detection Chain
What to listen for: "You need to give the dog a bit more space, release the pressure, so that then the dog has the option of leaving the...
Jun 3, 2024


Functional Agility and All its Benefits
What to listen for: "Physical agility gives them some mental agility too, and so it's giving them that well-exercised brain, and then...
May 21, 2024


The Importance of Setting Hides
What to listen for: “When you have that young dog, don’t put out that super hard hide. You don’t have that reinforcement history.” Our...
May 14, 2024


How Do You Define Success?!!?
What to listen for: “Success is the joy that we have with our dogs and the relationships that we're building.” Ever wondered how small...
Apr 30, 2024


Being Coached Hard to Advance Your Training
What to listen for: “My job as a coach is not to identify your destination, but your goal, and to help you identify and remove roadblocks...
Apr 15, 2024


All things Area Search/Live Find SAR
What to listen for: “We're dealing with a dog who has its own set of motivators. And so we just need to always be conscious of the fact...
Apr 2, 2024


How Do You Define Struggle?
What to listen for: “You really have to be observant and try to see, ‘what can my dog cope with, versus what can't they cope with?’ And...
Mar 19, 2024


Bomb Dog Research, Odor Purity, and Research Update with Dr. Lauryn DeGreeff, Dr. Michele Maughan and Jenna Gadberry
What to listen for: “It's sort of like giving a chocolate cake recipe to different people. Just because you gave them the same chocolate...
Mar 5, 2024


Martha Hoffman Reflections - 5000 Hour Eyes and Kindness
What to listen for: “That's the part that just takes it over the edge for me - I know that my dog feels my excitement, my anticipation,...
Feb 20, 2024


MythBusting: Obedience to Odor, +R Placement, and Using the Word Always/Never
What to listen for: “The odor that they get reinforced for may not be the odor that you think you’re reinforcing. So, odor obedience is...
Feb 12, 2024


Martha Hoffman: Bali Dogs and 5000 Hours of Observation Pt. 2
What to listen for: “They have a huge range of warning signals, very carefully graduated, all kinds of growls, and moans, and all kinds...
Jan 30, 2024


Martha Hoffman: Bali Dogs and 5000 Hours of Observation Pt. 1
What to listen for: "The doggy daycare worker and the shelter worker who is not being touted as any kind of behaviorist or trainer, are...
Jan 23, 2024


Tinkering and Creativity in Training
What to listen for: “I look at the dog and if something goes wrong I say, ‘Thank you for the information.’ As dog trainers, we modify...
Jan 16, 2024


100 Episodes In and Collaboration is Still the Key
What to listen for: "I appreciate the fact that our little collaborative thing has allowed us to have some of these really, really hard...
Jan 9, 2024


Reflections on 2023
What to listen for: "As a trainer, no matter what you're doing with your training or where you are, what level you are, how advanced you...
Jan 2, 2024


Questions From the Crowd - Winter 2023 Pt 2
What to listen for: “How well does the dog actually understand target odor? Part of the issue is that we think we've taught the dog to...
Dec 25, 2023
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