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What actually IS Sourcing and HOW can it be improved
Sourcing is at its core, one of the MOST important skills that you can create with your searching dog. It’s the very essence of finding a hide. Sourcing skills are what separate a well trained dog from a dog that doesn’t really understand his job. What is Sourcing?...
Don’t Build a Meerkat (er… I mean Prairie Dog)
There is more to training elevated hides than putting a hide out and rewarding your dog when he finds it. Probably the most influential aspect of training this skill is TIMING. When you mark and/or reinforce your dog sculpts his searching behavior in the future....
How you Introduce Multiple Hides MATTERS!
Are you building GOOD HABITS or BAD HABITS? Too many folks believe that 1 plus 1 equals 2. Not so! We want to build a search dog that follows the behavior chain: Encounter Odor, Source Odor, Encounter Odor, Source Odor, and so on... but depending on HOW you introduce...
Blank Area Training: The Key to Clearing Spaces
When I started in this sport I thought of blank areas as demotivational for the dog. I hated the idea of training blank areas and felt that I was "setting my dog up". In retrospect, I think my position on Blank Areas was more because I had a "finding hides" mindset...
The Incredible Sourcing Secret: 3D Searches
Perfect Sourcing is a goal of every Nosework handler, yet I find in talking to people that the understanding of what sourcing is and how to really achieve excellence isn’t well known. All too often people confuse “precision” with pin-pointing and they focus all of...
