Course curriculum

  • 01

    Introduction

  • 02

    Human Training Games

  • 03

    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
  • 04

    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
  • 05

    Similarities and Differences

    • Similarities and Differences

    • Teaching Yes and No

    • Teaching an “All Clear” in Scent Detection

    • Name That

    • Do You See That?
  • 06

    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!
  • 07

    Collecting Samples of Odor

    • Collecting Scent

    • Tools of the Trade - Equipment Makes a Difference

    • Cautions

    • Containers

    • Suppliers or Using Household Objects
  • 08

    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
  • 09

    Odor Descrimination

    • Introduction
  • 10

    Looking For Something

    • Introduction

    • Search

    • Fetch-Tug

    • Go Over There

    • You Can’t Catch Me

    • Search in Motion

    • What's That in Motion
  • 11

    Search For It

    • Breathe

    • Smell that

    • Presenting the Odor

    • Find Me
  • 12

    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
  • 13

    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
  • 14

    Searching with distractions

    • Body Movement and Environmental Cues Are Natural to Dogs

    • Blindfolded

    • Next to the Dog Park

    • At the Grocery Store
  • 15

    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
  • 16

    The Basics of Teaching Room to Room Searches

    • SideKick

    • Daily Life SideKick Training

    • Scent and the SideKick

    • Back and Forth

    • Four Hands Sitting

    • Four Hands Standing
  • 17

    Room to Room Searches

    • Around a Barrier Search

    • Walk in Patterns

    • Run to Me

    • Adding Rooms
  • 18

    Room To Room Matching and Yes and No Searches

    • Around a Barrier Match to Sample Search

    • Walk in Patterns

    • Run to Me Match Up

    • Run to Me Yes and No

    • Adding Rooms To Matching and Yes/No