by Stacy Barnett | Oct 6, 2026 | Nosework
I get asked about fans a LOT. Can you use a fan to teach your dog about airflow? Absolutely!! Fans are great for isolating one idea at a time…. and I DO use them! But if you’re setting up in your backyard or local park… you might already be standing in one...
by Stacy Barnett | Dec 18, 2025 | Nosework
Or: A Master Class in Reinforcing the Wrong Thing in Nosework There are days when you walk away from a training session thinking, Yes. I am a competent nosework handler. And then there are days when your dog false alerts with such confidence, clarity, and...
by Stacy Barnett | Apr 11, 2025 | Nosework
I see people make decisions all the time and as a trainer and I can’t help but think of the downstream ramifications. Decisions regarding how to fix a training problem… all the way to how we respond to failure in a search… all the way to how we...
by Stacy Barnett | Apr 4, 2025 | Nosework
Words matter, just like the criteria that we set for our dogs. Clarity in criteria means that our dogs are more likely to exhibit high performance in whatever we ask them to do. The need to have clear criteria is something that most of us can agree on. The trouble...
by Stacy Barnett | Mar 28, 2025 | Nosework
After the Frontier’s publication “Effectiveness of Marker Training in Detection Dogs” https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2025.1538452/full, there has been a lot of buzz on all sides about the use of markers...
