ACT! Scent wheel training (US)

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Scent Wheel Course

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Scent Wheel Course

1. Unlock Your Potential with ACT! Online Courses
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2. What you will learn in this course?
3. Welcome to the World of Scent Wheel Training!
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4. Many shapes and forms
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5. How to solve problems?
6. Where to start?
7. Sessions, trials and data
8. Building your own scent wheel
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9. Building your own scent wheel
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10. Building instructions how to make your own scent wheel
11. Working with your self build scent wheel
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12. Dogs love these scent wheels
13. What sort of scent wheel do you use?
14. Article " Improving the training of your detection dog" K-9 Cop 67
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15. ACT! Scent Wheel
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1. Why do we need a bridge signal?
2. What is a bridge signal?
3. Primary and secondary reinforcers
4. How do we use our bridge signals?
5. Conditioning a bridge
6. Conditioning a bridge
7. Bridge signal quiz
1. Quick guide 'how to set up the scent wheel'
2. Before transport, check the binders
3. How to carry the scent wheel
4. How to set up the scent wheel
5. Adding target positions
6. Setting up the scent wheel (video)
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7. Folding the scent wheel
1. Definitions in the detection world
2. Keep growing, challenge yourself! 'ODOR'
1. What is a Odor Delivery Device (ODD)?
2. Conditioning Odor Delivery Device (ODD)
3. Loading and handling a ODD
4. Cleaning ODD's
5. Keep growing, challenge yourself! 'ODD'
1. 1 target position passive alert - 1 HODD
2. 2 target position passive alert - 1 ODD
3. 3 target positions passive alert - 1 ODD
4. 2 target positions passive alert - 2 ODD's
5. 3 target positions passive alert - 3 ODD's
6. Duration in alert on ODD's
7. Keep growing, challenge yourself! 'When do we go to the next step in training?'
1. Testing a green dog
2. Set up the right environment
3. Right environment for testing
4. Introduction to a trained detection dog
5. Introduction to a 'green' dog
6. Dogs love to chase the odor
1. Use whatever scent wheel you want!
2. The difference between lumping or splitting
3. Why a difference between horizontal and vertical targets?
4. Lumping with vertical target positions
5. Lumping with horizontal target positions
6. Teaching your dog step by step to work with the scent wheel
7. When are we ready for the next lesson?
8. Keep growing, challenge yourself! 'Lumping or splitting'
9. Dogs will find their own tactics
10. And some smart dogs will find the easiest tactics
1. 1 arm and 1 HODD
2. 2 arms - 1 HODD / 1 BODD
3. 3 arms - 1 HODD / 2 BODDS
4. 4 arms - 1 HODD / 3 BODDS
5. 8 arms - 1 HODD / 7 BODDS
6. 12 arms - 1 HODD / 11 BODDS
7. How to start with the horizontal target positions?
8. Keep growing, challenge yourself 'Shoot a video of the next training session with these 5 trials'
1. 4 targets - 1 HODD / 3 empty targets
2. 4 targets - 1 HODD / 1 BODD / 2 empty targets
3. 4 targets - 1 HODD / 2 BODDS / 1 empty target
4. 4 targets - 1 HODD / 3 BODD's
5. 6 targets - 1 HODD / 5 BODDS
6. 8 targets - 1 HODD / 7 BODDS
7. 12 targets - 1 HODD / 11 BODDS
8. Using horizontal targets
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1. Start with a real, pseudo or training odor?
2. The benefit of a training odor
3. Odor triggers emotions
4. Mixing odors, a important step!
5. Pseudo odors pros and cons
6. Introducing distracting odors
7. Keep growing, challenge yourself! 'Distraction odors'
8. Collecting data while using the scent wheel
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1. How to use this chapter ' problem solving'?
2. No focusing on the target
3. Focus on the scent wheel
4. Skipping target positions
5. Watching trainer instead of focus on target
6. Running too fast
7. Moving too slow
8. False positive and false negatives
9. More duration in the alert
10. Barking, licking, biting or paw on target
11. Mistakes during scent wheel training
12. Scent wheel 'breaks' from base plate
13. Motivation problems
14. Working double blind
15. When are we ready for the next lesson?
16. SW mistakes

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99 lessons
8 Videos
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Scent Wheel Course

Scent Wheel Course

Welcome in this course

Introducing the bridge signal

How to set up the ACT! scent wheel

Defintions & language

The Odor Delivery Device (ODD)

How to find the HOT ODD (HODD)?

How to test dogs with the scent wheel?

Scent wheel training, how do we start?

How do we train the horizontal target positions?

How do we train the vertical target positions?

Introducing distraction odors

Problem solving

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