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...
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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...
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...
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