Find Your Fix- Sport Dog Scent Detection Podcast
JANUARY 27 2025 TRAIN TO TRIAL - TRIAL TO TRAIN
MENTAL GAME ON TRIAL DAY !
Our 2025 NOSEWORK SEASON is off and "running" ! Lets chat about TRIAL DAY and all the tips and tricks to be the BEST TRIAL TEAM we can be AND the BEST handler to our amazing search canine !
In this PODCAST we discuss taking our TRAINING TO TRIAL and supporting our dogs and ourselves for a FUN and PRODUCTIVE trial day. From once your IN the trial, thinking of travel, lodging, time frame to get to trial morning with the best frame of mind to build a Growth Mindset and Mental Game "ON".
Lets cover from how to prep before and during Trial Day to build your skill sets and MOST IMPORTANT plan and execute a FUN and FULFILLING day engaged with your dog in the activity and sport we LOVE !
We have PART ONE AND PART TWO for January and will follow up with AFTER TRIAL DAY and building your MENTAL GAME for future training and trial.
Mountain Dogs LLC
Jill E. Kovacevich, CNWI
mtnnosework@gmail.com
Find Your Fix- Sport Dog Scent Detection Podcast
To Reward or Not Reward- That is the Question .....
TO REWARD OR NOT REWARD- THAT IS THE QUESTION - GOT THAT ONE !
How do we train MOVING ON v REWARD AT SOURCE in training ? Does this change for trial day ? Does our dog have clarity of a prior found hide or prior found odor ? Is this a handler construct to fit our scent detection sport for effective and efficient trial performance searching ? All these questions and more- in this insightful discussion inspired by a recent trial where as a handler I got "lost" between two mirror hides and thought a not yet found hide or new hide was potentially a prior found hide and later asked myself does that matter ? Does my dog differentiate found odor from not found odor ? New odor from old odor ? Conundrum or maybe not ?
