Handling: When Do You, When Don't You
What to listen for: “Handling is not a recipe. It’s a craft.” Odor detection handling mastery comes down to hitting that delicate balance...
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- Aug 6
Distraction Camp 2024 Hot Wash!
What to listen for: “Every distraction is a possible reinforcement.” Could minor changes in your training strategy routine drastically...
- Jul 30
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 16
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...
- Jun 18
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 3
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...
- May 21
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...
- Apr 30
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 15
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 2
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...
- Feb 20
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,...
- Jan 30
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 23
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 2
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...
- Nov 14, 2023
Changing Your Training Contract with Your Dog
What to listen for: “That's the hard part. That paralysis that you can get into of being afraid to train something because it can make...
- Nov 7, 2023
Reflections on Chatting with Lee Laubach
What to listen for: “I've had lots of people ask me questions about, should you train your dog to tell you that nothing's there. And I...
- Oct 30, 2023
Let's Talk About Fear on Halloween!
What to listen for: "It's about living in the now and to keep going and to keep working and keep doing. And it's almost like behavior...
- Oct 24, 2023
All Things Arson Dogs and Nosework with Lee Laubach Part 2
What to listen for: “You see two types of canine handlers on the professional side; the ones that do it as a job, and the ones doing it...
- Oct 17, 2023
All Things Arson Dogs and Nosework with Lee Laubach Part 1
What to listen for: “I have a nice-looking lab that wants to come up and be friendly with you and if all of a sudden he sits next to you...
- Oct 9, 2023
Mental Management and Training: It's the little things.
What to listen for: “Finding those little ways to help you get back on track, and the appropriate people to talk to, so that you can do...
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