Building odor obedience instead of object obedience can be a key component in ensuring that our canine teammate is not just relying on what they see associated with the search, but following the scent to the source. This can be crucial when working on specific challenges such as trapping, pooling, converging or any variety of abstract odor pictures our dogs may confront in the face of the search. We'll go through steps to improving your dogs ability to go beyond the obvious to solve more complex odor problems, and to help handlers know when their dogs offering the most for any given hide within any given search.

Sponsor:Dogs of Course
Speaker(s):Jill Marie O’Brien, CPDT-KA, Co-Founder: NACSW

Contact: Dana Crevling
 Email: Crevling@dogsofcourse.com
 Web: https://dogsofcourse.com/