The Detection Dog Masterclass: Techniques That Work

Are you curious about detection work? Do you want to join, together with your dog in this fascinating world of odors? This course will help you to start your dog te become a detection dog. As well you will start te become a detection dog trainer!

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Course curriculum

1. Please support my family
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2. Introduction
3. How to read these lessons
4. Who is Simon Prins?
5. A new journey into odors
6. The end goal, double blind searches
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1. Why theory?
2. Fundamentals in training
3. The Importance of Setting and Following Criteria in Dog Training
4. Primary and secondary reinforcers
5. What is a bridge signal?
6. An active or passive alert?
7. Direct or indirect reinforcement
8. Direct reinforcement
9. Let's use the same language in the detection world
10. Dogs are excellent detectors
11. Theory quiz
1. How to start?
2. Make a plan!
3. Platform training
4. Cato Premack example
5. Hunting games
6. How does this course look like?
1. Choose a (training) odor
2. Every object has its own odor
3. What is so special about the Kong?
4. Kong as a training odor?
5. Kong odor in professional detection ?
6. Something to overthink before you choose
7. Helping you to choose a (start) odor
1. What is a bridge signal?
2. Why do we need a bridge signal?
3. A perfect example of why its good to use a bridge
4. Bridge, which one and how?
5. Using the bridge signal of the feeder
6. Conditioning a bridge
7. Bridge signal quiz 'Test yourself!'
8. Passive alert bridge signal
1. Choose what fits to your dog
2. Choose what fits you as a trainer
3. Choose your environment
1. Many methods to train a detection dog
2. The Metal tube approach
3. The Kong approach
4. Passive alert on Kong
5. Introduce play & play together
6. The Odor Pay's or Dopamine box approach
7. The Box approach
8. The Food approach
9. The tennis ball or towel approach
10. The Toy or Play approach
11. Play is a wonderful reinforcer for dogs
12. Pairing and overshadowing problems
1. From active to passive alerts
2. Passive alert training video
3. Food or toy?
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4. Identifying the Most Valued Reinforcer
5. Be careful with duration training
1. Are you ready?
2. Read first, then choose
3. Homework "Establishing a Baseline with a Single Target"
1. Introduction ACT!
2. How to start and what to expect?
3. Exclusive ACT! Training Materials
4. Introducing the bridge signal & the target
5. The ACT! Art of Detection Approach
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1. Detection target training step 1 - lure with food in the target
2. VIDEO : Start with lure and patience
3. Detection target training step 2 - no lure, just a empty target
4. Detection target training step 3 - pushing for more behavior
5. Detection target training step 4 - target in front of your chest
6. VIDEO : Using a chair with the target in front of you
1. Detection target training step 5 - quicker responses from the dog
2. Detection target training step 6 - presenting target on knees
3. Detection target training step 7 presenting target on the floor
4. Detection target training step 8 - introduce dynamic movement
1. Detection target training step 9 - choose a SIT or FREEZE alert
2. Detection target training step 10 - training a SIT alert
3. Video Nose target end result step 10
4. Detection target training step 11 - changing target position and focus on the SIT
5. Detection target training step 12 - add movement by tossing food and return into a SIT
1. Materials and definitions used in this chapter
2. ACT! imprint step 13 - adding target odor
3. VIDEO: The basic target behavior (step 13)
4. ACT! imprint step 14 - adding verbal cue
5. VIDEO : Adding a verbal cue (step 14)
6. ACT! imprint step 15 - adding target movement
7. VIDEO : Adding target movement (step 15)
8. ACT! imprint step 16 - improve verbal cue
9. VIDEO : Improve verbal cue (step 16)
10. Advancing to Next-Level Imprint Training in Detection Dog Work
1. Step 17 - introducing 1 stand
2. Introducing 1 target
3. Step 18 - separate bridge from target
4. VIDEO : Separate bridge from target (step 18)
5. Before moving to step 19 read this!
6. Step 19 - introducing 2 stands (1 loaded and 1 empty)
7. VIDEO : Start imprinting with two glass targets (step 19)
8. Step 20 - both stands loaded
9. VIDEO : Two loaded glass targets (step 20)
1. ACT! step 21 - introducing 3e target
2. VIDEO : step 21 introducing 3e target
3. ACT! step 22 - working blind
4. ACT! step 23 - introducing distraction odors
5. ACT! step 24 - Double blind test
1. ACT! step 25 - challenge with 'Target' Hunts
2. ACT! step 26 - horizontal target on the wall
3. VIDEO : step 26 target on a wall
4. ACT! step 27 - Get rid of stands and targets
1. Overly enthusiastic on the target
2. Add duration, use a Keep Going Signal
3. Généralisation decrement
4. Phasing out the visual target in areas
5. Phasing out targets to hunting games
1. Why is data important
2. Sessions, trials and data
1. Baseline drill 1 target
2. Passive or active test?
3. Pseudo odors pros and cons
4. Odor triggers emotions
5. The benefit of a training odor
6. Start with a real, pseudo or training odor?
7. Odor Delivery Device (ODD)
8. Lego blocks
9. Reinforcers
10. Think Plan Do
11. Problem solving basic
12. What is a bridge signal?
13. How to condition and use a bridge?
14. Clearning detection training materials
15. Mixing odors, a important step!
16. Introducing distracting odors
17. Why do we need a bridge signal?
18. How do we use our bridge signals?
19. Bridge signal quiz
20. What is a Odor Delivery Device (ODD)?
21. Conditioning Odor Delivery Device (ODD)
22. Loading and handling a ODD
23. Duration in alert on ODD's
24. Cleaning ODD's
1. Find the baseline 3-target drill
2. Body language box
3. Vaya feeder
4. Charlie dont touch
5. Charlie container passive
6. Charlie passieve alert 3
7. Kong play
8. Kong game Greece
9. Kong Charlie Hek

About this course

€99,95
149 lessons
0.5 hours of video content

The Detection Dog Masterclass: Techniques That Work

Course curriculum

Introduction

Theory and definitions

How to start?

Choosing your target or training odor

Introducing the bridge signal

Which method would you choose?

All roads lead to Rome

Passive alerts, duration & reinforcers

Are you ready?

ACT! The Art of Detection

ACT! Target training 01-04

ACT! Target training 05-08

ACT! Target training 09-12

ACT! Odor imprint 13-16

ACT! Target stands 17-20

ACT! Target stands 21-24

ACT! Target hunts 25-30

Problem Solving

Data keeping

Theory and extra info

Video lessen

About this course