ACT! Scent wheel training (English)

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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. Disclaimer, this course is for all type of scent wheels!
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3. What you will learn in this course?
4. Welcome to the World of Scent Wheel Training!
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5. Many shapes and forms
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6. How to solve problems?
7. Where to start?
8. Sessions, trials and data
9. Building your own scent wheel
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10. Building your own scent wheel
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11. Building instructions how to make your own scent wheel
12. Working with your self build scent wheel
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13. Dogs love these scent wheels
14. What sort of scent wheel do you use?
15. Article " Improving the training of your detection dog" K-9 Cop 67
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16. ACT! Scent Wheel
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17. Test your scent wheel knowledge
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. Test your 'bridge knowlegde'
1. What if you don't have a ACT! scent wheel?
2. Quick guide 'how to set up the scent wheel'
3. Before transport, check the binders
4. How to carry the scent wheel
5. How to set up the scent wheel
6. Adding target positions
7. Setting up the scent wheel (video)
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8. Folding the scent wheel
1. Definitions in the detection world
2. Test your definition knowledge
1. What is a Odor Delivery Device?
2. Conditioning Odor Delivery Device (ODD)
3. ODDs, human scent and gloves
4. Cleaning ODDs
5. How to mark ODDs?
6. There are NO ODD's in the operational world
1. Testing a green dog
2. Set up the right environment
3. Right environment for testing
4. Introduction to a trained detection dog
5. Setting clear criteria with sensors
6. Introduction to a 'green' dog
7. Dogs love to chase the odor
8. Test your knowledge
1. Use whatever scent wheel you want!
2. The difference between lumping or splitting
3. Why a difference between horizontal and vertical targets?
4. And some smart dogs will find the easiest tactics
5. Lumping with vertical target positions
6. Vertical targets and vortex
7. Lumping with horizontal target positions
8. Teaching your dog step by step to work with the scent wheel
9. When are we ready for the next lesson?
10. Dogs will find their own tactics
11. Test your knowledge how we should start
1. Lumping or splitting
2. How to lumping with a inexperience dog
3. Splitting vs. Lumping: Finding the Right Approach
4. 4 targets - 1 HODD / 3 empty targets
5. 4 targets - 1 HODD / 1 BODD / 2 empty targets
6. 4 targets - 1 HODD / 2 BODDS / 1 empty target
7. 4 targets - 1 HODD / 3 BODD's
8. 6 targets - 1 HODD / 5 BODDS
9. 8 targets - 1 HODD / 7 BODDS
10. 12 targets - 1 HODD / 11 BODDS
11. Using vertical targets
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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. Video training the horizontal scent wheel targets
8. Shoot a video of the next training session with these 5 trials
1. Lets talk about odor
2. Odor triggers emotions
3. Start with a real, pseudo or training odor?
4. The benefit of a training odor
5. Mixing odors, a important step!
6. Pseudo odors pros and cons
7. Introducing distracting odors
8. Collecting data while using the scent wheel
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9. Test your knowledge about distractions
10. Innovations like the Smart Wheel
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. Pushing for more behavior - make it stronger
15. Working double blind
16. When are we ready for the next lesson?
17. Test your problem solving knowledge

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105 lessons
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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 test dogs with the scent wheel?

Scent wheel training, how do we start?

How do we train the vertical target positions?

How do we train the horizontal target positions?

Target & distraction odors

Problem solving and training challenges

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