Book and Training Kit Included

Everything you need to train your dog to do Medical Alert for your needs. The only thing missing is the scent which will be unique to you.

Included is the
Training Your Medical Alert Dog book,
3 scent tins,
cotton swabs/rolls/pads,
target stick,
answer button and
3 spot markers.

You might need a few more items in your training journey like boxes and buckets, but they are cheap and easily found. We don't include them because they are expensive to ship.

Please allow up to 2 weeks for the book and kit to arrive.

Course curriculum

  • 01

    What Is a Service Dog

  • 02

    The Nose Knows

    • Introduction

    • Scent and The Working Dog

    • 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

    • Secrets Of The Snout

    • TARGET THE SOCK

    • The Stinky Sock Shell Game

    • Search for the Stinky Sock

    • Tennis Ball Drop

    • Find The One

    • Snuffle Garden

    • What Moved

    • It's Moving
  • 03

    Collecting Samples and Training Motivation

    • Introduction

    • Sample Collection and Storage

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

    • Sources of Motivation

    • Who’s Your Daddy - Finding Bacon

    • Teaching the SideKick

    • Daily Life Side Kick Training

    • Sound devices and the SideKick

    • The beginnings of persistence

    • Adding Prey Drive

    • And More Prey Drive
  • 04

    Odor Memory

    • Introduction

    • Odor Memory

    • Behavior Observations of YOUR Dog

    • Odor Span Tasks In Dogs

    • What's That You Say

    • There's a Smell

    • Its This One Silly

    • Target Training

    • Target This Scent

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

    • What's That Smell

    • SEARCH
  • 05

    Factors Influencing Odor Molecules

    • Introduction

    • Factors Influencing Odor Molecules

    • Bubbles

    • Odor and Taste

    • Chasing Food

    • How Air Movement Affescts Dogs' odor detection

    • Search

    • How Scent and Airflow Works

    • How Scent and Airflow Work (actual article)

    • Track It

    • What Is A Scent Cone Really

    • Scavenger Hunt
  • 06

    Reading Your Dog

    • Introduction

    • Assessing your dog - what does she look like when she is working

    • Thresholds and Trigger Stacking

    • Friend or Foe

    • Expectations

    • Observing The Obvious

    • Beyond Patience

    • Seeking Perfection

    • Body Language Skills

    • Gotcha

    • Where's My Tail

    • More way to "read" your dog

    • I See Spots

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

    • First Alert = Show Me
  • 07

    Intelligence Disobedience

    • Introductions

    • Choice

    • A Note On Basic Training

    • Relationship Based Dog Training

    • Teaching Yes and No

    • Why We Train for Self-Control and Predictability

    • Prediction

    • Life Has Simple Solutions

    • Puzzle Solving

    • More Prediction

    • Target Training

    • Attention and Focus
  • 08

    Self Control

    • Introduction

    • Distractions

    • Decisions, Decisions

    • Moving Distraction

    • Bowls

    • Reaction to Cues Around Food

    • Can I Do That

    • Did I Do that?
  • 09

    Problem Solving Games

    • Introduction

    • Clue Test

    • Basket Challenge

    • Pyramid Cups

    • Tennis Ball Scent

    • Box Quest

    • Scent Red light Green Light

    • The Bucket Game
  • 10

    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
  • 11

    Committing To The Scent

    • Similarities and Differences

    • Box On The Floor

    • Fool Me Once

    • Fool Me Twice

    • Scent One - Food Zero

    • Box Quest
  • 12

    Scent Recognition

    • Bringing back the SideKick

    • Daily Life SideKick Training

    • Scent and the SideKick Revisited

    • More Back and Forth

    • Four Hands Sitting

    • Four Hands Standing
  • 13

    Search For It

    • Tools for Nosework

    • Go Over There

    • Breathe

    • Smell That Smell

    • Presenting the Odor

    • You Can’t Catch Me

    • Search in Motion

    • What's That in Motion
  • 14

    Getting A Persistent Alert

    • Getting a Persistent Alert Introduction

    • Stages of a Search

    • Training the Alert

    • Clarity as a Confidence Booster

    • Focusing Food Motivation

    • The Partnership of Human and Dog
  • 15

    The Anatomy of an Alert Behavior - Part I

    • Ask Permission

    • Hand Touch

    • Targeting a Target Stick

    • Teaching Your Shy Dog to “Say Hello”

    • Target This Scent
  • 16

    The Anatomy of An Alert Behavior - Part II

    • Continuation this week of Ask Permission

    • The Paw Goes Here

    • Tag You're It

    • Bite It

    • Easy Button
  • 17

    Different Alert Behaviors

    • I See Spots

    • Nose Target

    • Push Me Pull Me

    • Paw Target

    • Smack It

    • Touch and Hold Scent Alert

    • Look At That

    • Looking as an alert
  • 18

    Combining the Alert and The Scent

    • Head In A Bucket

    • Scatter Find It

    • Back and Forth

    • There`s A Smell with Alert

    • What's That Smell With Alert
  • 19

    Room To Room Alerts

    • Room To Room Searches

    • Go Over There

    • Go! on Cue

    • Run to Me - Alerts

    • Work the Clock - Alerting

    • Find The Corners

    • Around a Barrier Search

    • Adding Rooms - Alerts
  • 20

    Alerts In the Night

    • The Human Place Mat

    • The Human Place Mat In The Dark

    • Paws On

    • Push It

    • Push It Push It Real Good

    • Paws Up And Push

    • CPR
  • 21

    Alerts In Public Places

    • Sustained Hand Target

    • Shoulder Target

    • Hip Target

    • The Paw Goes Here

    • Block to Alert
  • 22

    Finding Help

    • Chase My Hand

    • Follow My Fingers

    • Back and Forth (For refreshing)

    • Treat Toss Basketball

    • Four Hands

    • Four Hands Standing

    • Toss and Turn

    • Toss and Turn Twins

    • Toss and Turn Corners

    • Toss and Turn Party

    • Toss and Turn Return

    • Toss and Turn Search