Scent Dogs Australia

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Introduction

Dogs see the world differently

Test your knowledge 1

Practical Exercise 1

READING: Miller PE, Murphy CJ (1995)

Oh my, what big ears you have!

Test your knowledge 2

READING: Heffner, H. E. (1983)

The physiology of a dogs nose - part 1

The physiology of a dogs nose - part 2

Test your knowledge 3

One part per trillion

Parts per trillion expressed as distance

Cognitive olfaction

Suggested reading

READING: Craven, Paterson, Settles (2009)

READING: Berns, Brooks, Spivak (2014)

Percieving the world through olfaction

Test your knowledge 5

How do dogs smell - TED talk by Alexandra Horowitz

Practical Exercise 2

READING: Krestel, Passe, Smith, Jonsson (1984)

READING: Walker et.al. (2006)

READING: Fischer-Tenhagen, Heuwieser (2013)

Training with understanding

Test your knowledge 6

READING: Gazit, Terkel (2003)

Introduction

Test your knowledge 1

Drives

Test your knowledge 2

READING: McKinley and Young 2003

What Motivates your dog?

Preference Testing

Practical Exercise: Preference Testing

Engagement training

Practical exercise: Engage/play with your dog

Test your knowledge 3

Rewards

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Psychology of Dog Training

Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

Practical Exercise: Who's training who?

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Shaping Behaviours

Shaping

Practical Exercise: Shaping behaviours

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Training for Outcomes

Test your knowledge 7

READING: Marshall-Pescini et.al. 2008

READING: Demant et.al. 2011

READING: Marschark and Baenninger 2002

READING: Meyer and Ladewig 2007

Introduction

How scent can fill a room

Time and Concentration

Particle dispersion over time

Test your Knowledge 1

READING: Steen and Wilsson 1990

READING: Hepper and Wells 2005

What Climate?

How air moves around tufted grass

Time of day

Particle dispersion over time

Test your Knowledge 2

Practical exercise: Temperature gradients

Air movement

Eddies and curl-over over obstace

Eddies and pooling around a pipe

Test your Knowledge 3

Scent dispersion

Dog Working a scent cone

Scent Cones

Test your Knowledge 4

Practical Exercise: Bubble game

READING: John H Clark (no date)

READING: Sustainable Energy Authority Victoria (no date)

How temperature moves scent

Test your Knowledge 5

Introduction

Element 1: Container search - (Novice Division)

Element 3: Exterior search - (Excellent division)

Element 4: Vehicle search - (Novice division)

Scent Work Trials

Number of Qualifying Certificates needed to gain titles in ANKC Scent Work

Handling Scents Part 1

How odour (germs) spreads

2 Methods for Preparing Odour

Handling Scents Part 2

Part 1: Starting Scent Work

Stage 1: Introducing Odour

Stage 1: Increasing Duration

Part 2: Things to remember

Stage 2: How much reward?

Stage 2: Moving your feet, obedience to odour

Part 3: Tips for training

Part 4: Progressing your training

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 5

Stage 6 & 7

Communication = Team

Do's and Don'ts

Reading: Performance of domestic dogs on an olfactory discrimination

Reading: Olfactory generalization in detector dogs

The Final word

Recommended books

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