Scent Detection Classes
Online Registration Form
Classes Starting November 2021
Advance Class still room
BEGINNER CLASS if Full
Send email if you wish to be on a wait list
INDOORS
5 Week Session
Dates on Registration Form below
Container & Room & Vehicle Search
COVID Precautions...masks required and hand sanitization
Fournier Community Centre 3210 County Road 9 Fournier, Ontario
LINK To DIRECTIONS to Hall
https://goo.gl/maps/MkfdzFPDLVPCw5BB7
Bev Hurst has given seminars on tracking and did demonstrations of scent work at
Super Ex as well as trained dogs in Utility and air scent work. ALso has titled 2 dogs in SDDA
Beginner
Intro to Sport Detection
Building drive to search
Intro to odors Wintergreen-Pine-White Thyme.
Motivating your dog, building search drive
Container searches (Container)
Teaching "indication" and learning to read your dog's behavior and body language.
Novice
More work on search drive
Search technique and patterns.
Wintergreen Odor on "Hides"
Pinpointing the odor source.
Intro to Room searches (Interior)
More difficulty and different objects and challenges such as distracting odors.
Preparation for the SDDA Started level and SDDA rules.
Intermediate
Continued work on container and room searches.
Intro to outdoor and vehicle searches (exterior) .
Searches with multiple finds
Blind searches
Training a formal alert
Advanced
Preparation for SDDA Sport Detection trials.
Dogs should be comfortable on all 3 odors
The 3 search components, container, interior (room searches) , exterior (vehicle and ground) will be worked on.
During the spring/summer/ and fall classes a variety of locations will be introduced.
The following form can be filled out, scanned and emailed to k9101trn@gmail.com and etransfer can be made to the same address to reserve your spot.
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