Choosing to trial with our dogs requires that we ask some questions. Would trialing be the best thing for us, our dogs and our team, right now, at this point in time? The answers will differ from team-to-team, but the act of the purposefully practicing honest advocacy is something everyone participating in Scent Work should do.
This approach allows us to better determine which paths or decisions will work best for ourselves as handlers and our team as a whole. This is a necessary process, regardless how we may describe our dog or ourselves.
In this episode, we discuss the importance of honest advocacy, how this includes being honest about who our dogs are, what they need and how this may differ greatly from the realities we will encounter at trial.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
- Be Brave: Using Scent Work to Build Confidence Webinar
- Canine Body Behavior and Scent Work for Handlers Webinar
- Control Unleashed and Scent Work: Crazy Calm Start Lines Webinar
- Conquering Competition Stress Webinar
- Influence of Dog's Reactivity on their Scent Work Training and Trialing Webinar
- Intro to Control Unleashed Webinar
- Primary, Paired and Odor Hides: Choosing the Hide for the Training Challenge Webinar
- Scent Work for Reactive Dogs Webinar
- Scent Work for Sensitive Dogs Webinar
- Stranger Danger Webinar
- Trial Prep for Reactive Dogs Webinar
- Trial Prep for Sensitive Dogs Webinar
- When Dog Odor Trumps Target Odors: Dogs are Scary Webinar
ALTERNATIVES TO TRADITIONAL TRIALING
SPEAKER
Dianna L. Santos
TRANSCRIPT
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