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WW352: Jan 15- Walk On By: Making Intentional Distractors A Piece of Cake (Repeat)

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WW352: Jan 15- Walk On By: Making Intentional Distractors A Piece of Cake (Repeat)

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A top concern of many handlers are distractors placed inside a container or placed in the search area (typical in AKC Scent Work). These are INTENTIONAL distractors and need to be trained! Containers already have their challenges with undesirable antics and distractors increase the rate of errors or antics. It’s very easy for dogs to fall for a novel odor especially in a novel search area. Novel odor, usually food or toys, are actually competing reinforcers for your dog.

It’s important that we train for these distractions early in the dogs training. It becomes a discrimination game where we test these distractors against target odor.

First we need to ensure our dogs have a high value for odor. Target odor MUST be better than novel odor. Target odor MUST equal high value reinforcement.

Then we will use informal drills to test and build value for odor with a high rate of reinforcement.

Putting it together we will implement handling that will empower our dogs to self-solve the situation and walk on by to dismiss those distractors!


Note:  This is a repeat workshop that has run previously under a different course number.  Please review your workshop library to make sure this would not be a duplicate purchase.


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Lecture Publish Date: Sunday Jan 15th

Video Submissions Due Date:  Sunday Jan 22nd @ 12pm noon PT 

Feedback & Questions Video Publish Date: Wednesday Jan 25th


Julie SymonsInstructor: Julie Symons

Julie Symons (she/her) has been involved in dog sports for over 30 years. Starting with her mix, Dreyfus, in flyball, she went on to train and compete in conformation, agility, obedience, herding and tracking with her first Belgian tervuren, Rival. Rival was the first CH OTCH MACH Belgian...(Click here for full bio and to view Julie's upcoming courses)

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Working Spot  - $39.95. Working participants will submit a short video (approx. 90 seconds) for instructor feedback. Limited number of spots available.

Auditors - $29.95. Unlimited number of spots available. Will receive access to all materials, but will not receive personalized instructor feedback.

Registration opens at 9:00 am Pacific Time on Dec 22, 2022

Registration closes at 12:00 pm (noon) Pacific Time on Jan 31, 2022

 

 

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