What to listen for: Can a dog excel at multiple areas in detection work, or will attempting multiple specialties only compromise their...

What to listen for: “If I cannot, in five repetitions, isolate a variable down and get it where I want it, I do need to stop. That...

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

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

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...

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

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,...

What to listen for: “Handling is not a recipe. It’s a craft.” Odor detection handling mastery comes down to hitting that delicate balance...

What to listen for: “Every distraction is a possible reinforcement.” Could minor changes in your training strategy routine drastically...

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...

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...

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...

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...

What to listen for: "Physical agility gives them some mental agility too, and so it's giving them that well-exercised brain, and then...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

What to listen for: “They have a huge range of warning signals, very carefully graduated, all kinds of growls, and moans, and all kinds...