Elevation Blog Series 2: What Makes a Dog Confident?
A Confident Dog is a dog that will take initiative knowing that they will likely be successful. In our previous installment of the Elevation Blog Series, we explored the role of confidence and trust in these hides. (You can read that blog here:...
Elevation Blog Series 1: The Role of Confidence in Sourcing High Hides
One thing separates teams who CAN find high hides from those who can’t. That one thing is Confidence. Without Confidence, dogs don’t know how to be successful, and handlers don’t trust the dogs. Join me on my blog series on Elevation and Confidence....
Training Series: Making Corners more Valuable
Here’s a quiz: What do you value most? (1) something that is easy, (2) something you have to work for but you succeed, or (3) something unattainable? The answer is pretty cut and dried. The answer is #2! We find intrinsic value in working hard and achieving...
Training Series: The Key to Thresholds
The key to threshold hides is simple. In fact it’s SO simple that I almost could write this blog in one sentence! Are you struggling with your dog blasting through the start line or searching from back to front? Brava sources a threshold hide. Even if you have a...
Directionality preferences in searching
Is your dog right-nosed or left-nosed? It’s kind of a cool question because the answer can indicate whether your dog will be more effective traveling to the right or the left. The question is absolutely legitimate. We know that humans are right or left handed and that this corresponds to one side of the brain or the other. Is your dog right brained or left brained?
