This FREE webinar provides instruction on how we develop searching behavior and the test exercises that utilize it. This webinar covers:

• Conditioned emotional responses

  • Developing independence

  • Desensitizing dogs to environmental discomfort

• Drive building

  • how to increase possessiveness of game in dogs who are lukewarm to it

  • the process for developing “will to find”, the level of effort dogs have to exert to find game

• Introductions

  • how we introduce puppies to game

  • how we introduce gunfire

  • how we introduce water and other forms of cover

• Strategies for developing pointing in different breeds of dogs

  • Transitioning from elicited to discriminate behavior

  • Using operant conditioning to enhance natural ability

• Obedience

  • Teaching your dog to quarter

  • Getting your dog to increase or decrease range using rewards

  • Getting your dog to increase or decrease range using pressure

• Training tips for different test exercises

  • Field search

  • Duck search

  • Independent forest search

A link to join the webinar will be sent out to registered participants the day prior to the event. A recording will be available for all registered participants after the event. If you registered for a previous webinar in this series, you do not need to register again.

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Here’s a list of all the upcoming webinars in the series:

June: Tracking

July: Retrieving

August: Neutrality, Capping, Obedience

August: Handling for Hunting and Hunt Tests