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Understand what’s really driving your dog’s distraction

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How comfort, arousal, reinforcement history and hide difficulty play in

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A plan to overcome your environmental challenges

About the webinar

Does your dog get overly distracted by critters? Pee smells? Scavenging? People? Noises? Dog smells? This list isn’t complete, but unless you’re searching with a robot, you’ve probably experienced this to some extent! Regardless of your training level, experience, or drive levels, you will face environmental challenges in searching. When you do, your dog will either overcome the distraction and keep working, or their focus will shift away from target odor. Uh-oh! That can mean missed hides or slow times at best, and complete cessation of searching at worst. Your dog’s ability to overcome distraction depends on their comfort level, arousal, reinforcement history, history of success, and the challenge level of the hide itself. We talk about all of these and lay out how you can understand what is driving your issue and how to overcome your environmental challenges! Includes a downloadable handout with a summary, checklist, training log and more, to help you identify what’s driving your dog’s distraction and track progress as you work through it.

Stacy Barnett

Stacy Barnett is both a sport and working dog handler. She is a top nosework competitor and trainer, and the first handler to put multiple Summit titles (16 so far) on 3 dogs (Judd SMTx3, Brava SMTx7, Powder SMTx6) in the National Association of Canine Scent Work (NACSW). Stacy is also a certified SARTECH II Search and Rescue professionally trained responder and has trained, certified, and deployed with her dog, K9 Prize, for Wilderness Search and Rescue. Stacy has recently joined Missouri Task Force 1 as a US&R Canine Search Specialist. She has been a faculty member at Fenzi Dog Sports Academy since 2015 and is an international clinician for seminars around the world. She is a licensed Judge for for AKC Scent Work where she was also retained in an advisory position for the AKC Scent Work program for 2 years. Stacy is the founder of Scentsabilities Nosework, and has delivered over 250 educational webinars since 2017. Stacy also co-hosts the popular podcast, K9 Detection Collaborative with Robin Greubel.

Watch Now and Defeat Distractions

This 2h session (plus Q&A) helps you pinpoint the cause of distraction and train through it. Lifetime access means you can revisit it whenever a new environment throws you a curveball.

$39.00

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