Course curriculum

  • 01

    Introduction

    • Training the BioDetection Dog

    • Current Uses of Bio Detection Dogs

    • Training

    • Shaping a Behavior

    • The Nose Knows

    • What You Don't Know About Your Dog's Nostrils

    • How Dogs Smell

    • How Your Dog's Nose Knows So Much

    • 5 Dog Nose Facts You Probably Didn't Know

    • Scent and The Working Dog

    • Target The Sock

    • The Stinky Sock Shell Game

    • Search for the Stinky Sock
  • 02

    Human Training Games

  • 03

    Collecting Samples of Odor

    • Collecting Scent

    • Tools of the Trade - Equipment Makes a Difference

    • Cautions

    • Containers

    • Where to get biologicals

    • Training Plans
  • 04

    Training

    • Structured Games

    • Shaping With Games

    • How To Play These Games

    • Training Plans

    • Awareness Training

    • Consistency is the Key to Dog Training
  • 05

    Rudiments

    • Are You Ready?

    • Assessing Yourself and Your Energy

    • Games for Prediction and Confidence and Focus

    • Creating Attention

    • Do You Want to Work?

    • Start Buttons

    • Show Me The Money

    • You Pick!
  • 06

    Motivation

    • The Power of Full Engagement, Managing Energy, Not Time

    • Moving Towards Mastery: Seek Many Paths

    • Expectancy Theory of Motivation

    • Sources of Motivation

    • Focusing Toy Motivation: Create intense desire for a favorite training toy

    • Focusing Food Motivation

    • Who’s Your Daddy - Finding Bacon

    • Tugging Fool

    • Reinforcement VS Motivation
  • 07

    Choice

    • Choice

    • Making Decisions and Choices

    • Rehabilitating the Power of Choice

    • Choice Rehab

    • Match to Sample Core Games

    • Pick It Up, Put It Down

    • Put Your Toys Away

    • Goal!

    • Self Manicure
  • 08

    Similarities and Differences

    • Similarities and Differences

    • Teaching Yes and No

    • Teaching an “All Clear” in Scent Detection

    • Name That

    • Do You See That?
  • 09

    Odor Memory

    • Introduction

    • Odor Memory

    • Behavior Observations of YOUR Dog

    • Odor Span Tasks In Dogs

    • Why Do Dogs Have Such a Strong Sense of Smell?

    • Target Training

    • Target This Scent

    • What's That Smell

    • Search
  • 10

    Simple Scent Games for Starting a Detection Dog

    • Rags and Muffins

    • The Shell Game

    • Pyramid Cups

    • Scavenger Hunt

    • I Can’t See, It’s Dark

    • Oh My, Where Did It Go?

    • Find Your Toy

    • Target The Sock

    • The Stinky Sock Shell Game

    • Search for the Stinky Sock
  • 11

    Getting a Persistent Alert

    • Stages of a Search

    • Training the Alert

    • Clarity as a Confidence Booster
  • 12

    Looking For Something

    • Introduction

    • Search

    • Fetch-Tug

    • Go Over There

    • You Can’t Catch Me

    • Search in Motion

    • What's That in Motion
  • 13

    Search For It

    • Breathe

    • Smell that

    • Presenting the Odor

    • Find Me
  • 14

    Targeting the Scent

    • Go for A Sniff

    • It's In Your Hand

    • Getting pushy

    • A zillion ways to say please

    • Find It

    • Clue Test

    • Tennis Ball Scent

    • Scent Can Be Anywhere
  • 15

    Different Alert Behaviors

    • I See Spots

    • Nose Target

    • Push Me Pull Me

    • Put Your Paw On My Shoulder

    • Paw Target

    • Show Me

    • Smack It
  • 16

    Creating A Persistant Alert Behavior

    • Introduction

    • Its Moving

    • Are You A Gambler

    • Are You Sure I Said “Break?”

    • Focus Forward

    • It's All In The Wrist

    • Follow That Masked Man

    • I Missed It

    • Bop!

    • Hold For Calm

    • Hold It Still

    • Hold The Wall
  • 17

    Committing to the Scent

    • There`s A Smell!

    • It's This One Silly

    • Box On The Floor

    • Fool Me Once

    • Fool Me Twice

    • Scent One - Food Zero

    • Box Quest

    • Head In A Bucket
  • 18

    Combining the Alert with the Scent

    • Teaching the SideKick

    • Daily Life Side Kick Training

    • Scent and the SideKick

    • Head In A Bucket

    • Scatter Find It

    • Back and Forth

    • There`s A Smell with Alert

    • What's That Smell With Alert

    • Touch and Hold Scent Alert
  • 19

    Scent recognition with distractions

    • Body Movement and Environmental Cues Are Natural to Dogs

    • Blindfolded

    • Next to the Dog Park

    • At the Grocery Store
  • 20

    Match To Sample Searches

    • Shell Bucket Match

    • Pyramid Bucket Match

    • Bucket Match Line Up

    • I Couldn’t Find It

    • Tennis Ball Match Up

    • Tennis Ball Yes and No Searches