What to listen for: “Barking should be under stimulus control. It only happens when I cue it – or when the dog finds target odor – and nothing else.” Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, unpack the reality behind bark alerts in detection work. They challenge the idea that a barking dog is always impressive or useful, and ask the critical question: can we train a bark alert versus should we? Drawing on real-world deployment experience, they explain when bark alerts

What to listen for: "The bigger the gap between the image in our head and reality, the more we're going to struggle." Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, chat about a peculiar kind of self-deception. The kind that costs years of training, thousands of dollars, and sometimes the well-being of both dog and handler. They call it beer goggles: the tendency to see the dog we want rather than the dog standing in front of us. Robin talks about Flash, her Lab who simply doesn

What to listen for: "A chain is only as strong as the weakest link, and that applies to behavior change, too. So therefore, build fluency...

What to listen for: “Are we setting up hides in a way that our dog is becoming better and we're finding holes, or are we setting up hides...

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...