Course Details
Do you struggle with how to set hides? Do you accidentally overface your dog or make the hides too hard? Do you have structure to your training so that you thoughtfully build skills? Have you stagnated in your training?
Hide Placement is the answer. Use thoughtful hide placement using air flow considerations to set scent puzzles up for your dog that will allow your dog to progress steadily. Build intentional odor obedience and an understanding of how to truly source a hide. Use Hide Placement to make your training sessions on point and powerful!
Our goal is a motivated dog who understands his job and who can source a hide quickly and accurately!
This class will help you to understand how odor moves... and set hides that challenge and build your dog's skillsets. Ths is a class dedicated to practical odor theory.
New for February 2022: Search Area Analysis! How to evaluate your competitive seach area or virtual walkthrough and how to use thie analysis both in the moment and for future training setups!
You will learn to set hides and to understand why your dog behaved the way that he did!
This class will have a Teacher's Assistant (TA) available in the Facebook study group to help the bronze and silver students! Directions for joining will be in the classroom after you register.
Teaching Approach
Each week you will receive several lectures released at the begining of the week. There will be theory based lectures as well as lectures and assignments on the current topic. Searches may be done at home or out of the home. This class offers extensive written lectures, no verbal lectures, and videos of varying lengths. It is rare that relevant speaking takes place within a video; they are designed to be watched in order to follow the ideas presented in the lecture. Lecture videos may run from 1 to 4 minutes long, with the average between 1-2 minutes. The lectures are designed to help a student understand the purpose of the topic and how its application might vary by dog. Care is taken so that learners who learn by both watching and reading will be successful.
Instructor: Stacy BarnettStacy Barnett is a top nosework competitor and trainer, with many Summit Level titles in the National Association of Canine Scent Work (NACSW), (Judd SMTx3, Brava SMTx5, Powder SMTx3). She is also a Wilderness SAR K9 handler with her certified dog, K9 Prize. Stacy has been a faculty member at FDSA since 2015 (Click here for full bio and to view Stacy's upcoming courses)
