The human experience with odor is far and away what our dogs are experiencing when they encounter odor. For one, they can actually "see" odor by using their incredible sense of smell. We cannot. Yet, time and time again, handlers will discount what the dog does, communicates or tries to do within a given search.
In this podcast episode, we discuss this vastly different experience on either end of the leash and how we as handlers need to own our own shortcomings. How we must improve our own skills, both in understanding odor and in reading and supporting our dogs, to best allow our dog to be successful.
Here are some resources available through Scent Work University that may help with bridging this gap regarding expectations and more properly supporting our dogs when doing searches with them:
Hide Placement and Odor Movement Seminar with Laurel Scarioni
All About the Box; A Detailed Look at Container Searches with Dana Zinn
Tools to Help Design Your Scent Work Searches Webinar with Dianna L. Santos
Wait, Quit or Help Webinar with Dianna L. Santos
Speaker:
Dianna L. Santos
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Helping Instructors Go Virtual
K9 Nose Work Shelter Program
My Dog Lies! ... Or Does He?
Cyber Scent Work: Shelter Dogs
Cyber Scent Work: Something New
Rewarding at Trial
One Thing At a Time
Scent Work is for All Dogs. Period.
Confessions of a Terrible Student
Training On Your Own
Clarity of Cues in Scent Work
Training for Fun v. Training to Compete
Hard Hide...Now What?!
Properly Training v. Overtraining
Silence! Or Not So Much
Being Smart About Equipment
Thoughtful Trialing
Supporting, Crowding and Hindering
Time for Empathy
What is Failure?
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