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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 20, 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


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


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


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


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 14, 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...
Nov 7, 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 30, 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 23, 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 17, 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...
Oct 9, 2023


Reflections on Ronny LeJeune, Christi Raak, and Jill Kovacevich
What to listen for: Step into the world of canine detection with the Dames of Detection, themselves - Robin Greubel, Stacy Barnett, and...
Oct 2, 2023


Stupid Question Day 2023
What to listen for: The time has come, once again, for Stupid Question Day! Of course, there are no stupid questions. In fact, The Dames...
Sep 26, 2023


All things Nosework with Jill Kovacevich
What to listen for: “I think the story is very similar to a lot of folks who, even in our present day, are doing Nosework. We find out...
Sep 19, 2023
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