This is great. Timing is everything and working through distractions.

Great information!!! Very helpful!!

This was excellent! Keeping criteria consistent is key and essential to maintaining foundations. Great reminder and very clearly presented. I really liked the video clips.

Great video. Thanks!

Thanks guys!! SUPER helpful. I was struggling to understand why my dogs indication in barn hunt was varying.

excellent video thanks!

I have worked with my dog from a very young age with scent training on my own. My dog is an Australian Cattle Dog and extremely high energy. I taught her to alert by sitting and looking at me. I wanted to go further with her training and signed up for a class. Scent 1 was required before going further. The instructor is wanting me to retrain my dog to a standing nose freeze. This seems to be confusing and frustrating my dog and she is starting to show less enthusiasm for scent work. Also going back to getting paid for just smelling the object and not searching for it, seems to be diminishing her enthusiasm for searching. Should I quit the class?

@FordK9

12 күн бұрын

In my opinion, you should always advocate for what’s best with your dog. Even though a trainer may know more about a particular discipline they don’t know what’s best for your dog and some cases. In this particular case a type of indication, such as a focus is in many times a cosmetic desire by a handler or trainer. if your dog is becoming confused or losing motivation to do the Detection work then this is a far bigger issue than a cosmetic appearance of an indication. In some cases, it is important to create focus at the source of odor for clarity but if this is just for fun and for sport, there are tons of teams out there who do not have a focus type indication yet still do quite well within the program. Again, always advocate for what’s best for your dog and have an open conversation with your trainer.

@arleenanderson9021

10 күн бұрын

@@FordK9 Thank you very much for your reply. This is what my gut was telling me. Early in my dog's training, in puppy class, I deferred to a trainer about something and I've regretted it ever since. I'm getting the same gut feeling about this issue.

Question: confirm if I understand this correctly… marking the behavior does not have to happen at the same time as paying. That is, it’s totally okay to mark the correct behavior and then pay some short time later? Do you have a marker which is separate from a release for reward?

Should you do an alert command for a trailing tracking dog? I am just thinking if they come up to an unalive person.

My dog is now in advanced and excellent in ankc. I want to improve her duration when she indicates. She will sniff and I know she is close to finding the source by her smelling. She will often pause when she has found it but then she will look at me. Does it matter that she’s not freezing? Only because I know as this gets harder she may really need to indicate fora longer time. We used a y shaped plumbing tube with scent down the bottom to get them used to holding it. Should I go back to that to increase duration? Or leave it and reward when she’s on odour and get her to hold it for a few more seconds? Sorry for the amount of questions lol

I teach my dogs that the mark (click, Yes, whistle) ends the behavior. They don't have to maintain criteria after the mark. Do you feel this is an issue?

@FordK9

6 сағат бұрын

@@sodawild that is the exact definition of a terminal bridge (aka) Conditioned Reinforcer… once signal happens behavior ends and reward delivered even if delayed due to distance to location of reward etc.

How do you teach the actual hold / duration please? The videos showed great technique but how do I teach it to my dog? Thanks

@FordK9

Жыл бұрын

Hello, we actually cover that and much more in our Block 1 online class at www.fordk9.com

Are they scored on how long they hold the alert?

@FordK9

Жыл бұрын

Depends on what program you’re competing in