Find Your Fix- Sport Dog Scent Detection Podcast

The Art and Science of Hide Placement- Part 1

January 16, 2024 Jill Kovacevich Season 1 Episode 8
The Art and Science of Hide Placement- Part 1
Find Your Fix- Sport Dog Scent Detection Podcast
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Find Your Fix- Sport Dog Scent Detection Podcast
The Art and Science of Hide Placement- Part 1
Jan 16, 2024 Season 1 Episode 8
Jill Kovacevich

Part One is all about the activity of setting hides and using imagination to meet or measure your search training objectives. We disucss setting hides for carefree quick fixes or using specific categories to help describe and craft your hide setting choice within a progressive training plan of hide complexities including location, anticipation of odor movement and environmental influences. Then adding in the Ds of dog training of duration, distance, difficulty, distraction and more if your a Dwiz, we can easily provide our dogs with an opportunity to experience searching for odor to source in training to broaden our dogs odor memory and build dog and handler search confidence. 

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Part One is all about the activity of setting hides and using imagination to meet or measure your search training objectives. We disucss setting hides for carefree quick fixes or using specific categories to help describe and craft your hide setting choice within a progressive training plan of hide complexities including location, anticipation of odor movement and environmental influences. Then adding in the Ds of dog training of duration, distance, difficulty, distraction and more if your a Dwiz, we can easily provide our dogs with an opportunity to experience searching for odor to source in training to broaden our dogs odor memory and build dog and handler search confidence.