by Stacy Barnett | Nov 29, 2025 | Nosework, Training Skills
Building duration on a nose freeze is actually pretty easy if you use a Reverse Lure. A Reverse Lure provides incentive for the dog to maintain duration and is my opinion the most powerful tool that you can use to create a duration behavior. The Reverse Lure operates...
by Stacy Barnett | Nov 28, 2025 | Nosework, Training Skills
This is a VLOG based on reflecting on the responses I had to my post on Facebook…. The post from Facebook: THE FALLACY OF THE MORAL HIGH GROUND Looking back at photos today after Why had a particularly bad day with his spondylosis and I was reminded of the sassy...
by Stacy Barnett | Apr 26, 2020 | Nosework, Training Skills
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...
by Stacy Barnett | Apr 16, 2020 | Nosework, Training Skills
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...
by Stacy Barnett | Mar 27, 2020 | Nosework, Training Skills
Ok! Hopefully everyone is staying healthy and safe. As promised, here is the next installment of my FREE Training Series which I’m publishing in order to give everyone something to train while we wait for this crisis to pass. In this installment, we will explore...
by Stacy Barnett | Mar 16, 2020 | Nosework, Training Skills
The whole world is in a crisis… Trials, at least in the very near future, are being cancelled. It’s truly terrifying, especially for those of us who are high-risk ourselves or have loved ones who are. Nosework is by design, a sport that allows for social...
