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Use layout patterns and hide placement to build careful, independent container searching

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Build good thresholds so your dog starts searching right away

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Home-friendly exercises for new and experienced dogs

About the webinar

Does your dog work containers like a ball bouncing around a pinball machine? Do you worry that containers have been skipped, but you're cautious about interfering too much? Are you worried about calling "Finish" and being correct? This webinar uses hide placement and other techniques to help your dog learn to be more careful during a container search. We use patterns in our layouts and hide placement to help the dog start searching immediately (think good thresholds!) and independently. Did you know that your dog learns through patterns? Dogs are both emotional AND cognitive creatures. We'll use their cognitive skills so that they learn through experience without interference from the handler. Everyone learns better when they figure out the answer on their own rather than having someone give it to them, and dogs are the same! These exercises can be done at home. It may make sense to start in a room rather than outdoors, but depending on your space, you can make it work. If your dog is newer to Nosework, I suggest cardboard boxes. More experienced dogs can use alternative containers as long as odor is readily available. The dog needs to be able to detect the odor on the first pass for the container to be "good" for training. Includes a downloadable handout with a summary, checklist, training log and more, so you can set up the container patterns at home and track how methodical your dog becomes. Note: This webinar does NOT address box smashing (that's a different issue, covered in Nose Not the Feet!).

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 Build a Methodical Container Dog

This 1h 45m session (plus Q&A) gives you container setups you can run at home this week. Lifetime access means you can revisit the patterns as your dog's container work matures.

$39.00

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