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7 days ago

Training Ideas and Takeaways with Diana Bunch

What to listen for: “For the disaster, particularly this last one, you have to appreciate your emotional response that you’re going to...

Nov 26

Talking Cadaver Dog Training with Jack Thorpe and Annissia Justice (pt. 1)

What to listen for: Today, two of the three Dames of Detection, Stacy Barnett and Crystal Wing, sit down with two amazing handlers, Jack...

Oct 15

Recognizing and Dealing with Displacement Behavior

What to listen for: "If we're a really confusing trainer, then our dogs have to be really damn confident because they’ve got to put up...

Oct 1

Working Up Your Behavior Chain to Find Where it Went Wrong

What to listen for: "I found that the things I taught in higher arousal have held up better in higher arousal environments. The things...

Sep 16

Developing Training Plans without In-Person Mentors

What to listen for: “It takes a dutiful trainer to show up and train in those sorts of situations all of the time. For search and rescue,...

Sep 2

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...

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 20

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...