Find Your Fix- Sport Dog Scent Detection Podcast- Training Tips and More !

Your K9 SCENT FIX - Host Support Podcast Team has been working diligently behind the scenes to craft our Podcast Progression and Facebook Support group to bring our scent detection sport dog hosting community closer together to share ideas and inspire each other to Host !   IN our HOST SUPPORT PROGRESSION- We have broken down the Sport Scent Detection Event Hosting TO DO List and added in basic an...

Your K9 SCENT FIX - Host Support Podcast Team has been working diligently behind the scenes to craft our Podcast Progression and Facebook Support group to bring our scent detection sport dog hosting community closer together to share ideas and inspire each other to Host !   IN our HOST SUPPORT PROGRESSION- We have broken down the Sport Scent Detection Event Hosting TO DO List and added in basic an...

Objective - Lets brainstorm the parts and pieces that may be "communication" in scent detection and the semantics - words and concepts to describe those training and trialing ideas for HANDLER communication.  In our Train to Trail and Trial to Train Series we are exploring COMMUNICATION. In EPISODE we covered DOG COMMUNICATION and the broad view of the 1001 ways communication is present...

ITS A HYJACK ! We are hijacking todays podcast to talk about our September to Remember and all the great TRAINING and TRIAL experiences with GOALS met and new ones SET.  Our Co-Host Aleks Woodroffe with Release Canine is featured to tell us her Summit success from Estes Park CO September 27-28 2024 culminating in a Summit Title and 1st Place overall for Aleks and her wonder pup Tana. Team Tana has...

Week Four: Meeting Expectations with Success - In this EPISODE- our final in the September Trial Hosting Series- jumps into getting your trial site approvals with NACSW or HOW TO pull in great AKC Judges with clear plans & photos! With guest Sue Frisch, NACSW Trial Approval Chair and Certifying Official, providing excellent insight into what makes great photos/videos of sites and what is requi...

FACILITY USE FEES -Explore facility expectations first, explore calendar BEFORE fees; off-season; low activity schedules; check online fee forms; ask for fee info; have budgets in mind- if goal is to break even- determine revenue potential less costs (get cost estimate from other Hosts in your area or build your own;  POTENTIAL FEES- Ask for a written quote; revise to reduce hours for each area; o...

HOW TO START THE CONVERSATION with Guests Stacy Saravo and Sue Frisch ...  SCHOOLS -GET Insider Information; Get to know a School Staffer;  Pros and Cons; relationship with staff; challenges; how to create buy in; create progress to getting to yes; written proposal; School support groups- sports, coaches, PTA/PTO; Theater, Band, 4 H; TAs; Keep engaged- Front office; P/VP;Secretary; Accounting staf...

Site Suitability – what can you offer?  Lets discuss how you can identify potential trial sites and what are the needs for a trail site ! Here's our laundry list - Types of locations:  Whats important -  Logistics- Parking, Dog Potty Areas Rest Rooms, Score Room, Hospitality for Volunteers; Search areas for levels the site supports; Is the site Event Manageable - Line of sight; sound; enter/e...

PART TWO- In our Train to Trial and Trial to Train Communication Series we started with DOG to HANDLER communciaton ! DO YOU SPEAK DOG ? In Part One we explored our thoughts and ideas of how our dogs' communicate various odor attributes and presence or absence of odor in the search. In PART TWO we continue this fun discussion and explore a bit more about hide placement and how training may bu...

If you BUILD it they will come ! Who knew ! Over 3,000 downloads ! We are all hungry to learn,  in the dog sport world of scent detection and one more podcast to choose from didnt seem possible but became probable and here we are ONE YEAR later with our upcoming September K9 Scent Fix Podcast Episode !  Thanks from Aleks with Release Canine and myself Jill with Mountain Dogs to all our listeners a...

We are excited to start our Host Support Weekly Tid Bits with a focused monthly topic to build a Host- Handler community and support our great sport of scent detection with training and trial events. Join Us starting Wednesday September 11 2024 on K9 Scent Fix posted to your favorite PODCAST app or at k9scentfix.buzzsprout.com Send us Fan Mail

DO YOU SPEAK DOG ? "Hey- the hide is HERE !!!"  Learning to read our dog working ODOR is no easy task. Our next PODCAST will jump into the deep end and explore Canine Communication ! Everything from our dog's communication of odor, to environment, to distraction and more from search start or release to search finish and search reward.  In our TRAIN TO TRIAL & TRIAL TO TRAIN seri...

Welcome to our NEW podcast to focus on Event Hosting  for Sport Dog Scentwork and Nosework  ! Im Jill Kovacevich with Mountain Dogs together with my co-hosts Aleks Woodroffe at Release Canine and Jen Fleming with Georgia Nosework. We seek to offer this podcast and our NEW K9 Scent Fix Hosting Support Facebook page as a resource and guidance with insight to anyone interested in hosting K9 scent eve...

In our TRAIN TO TRIAL & TRIAL TO TRAIN series we have explored the concepts of source and sourcing,  odor pathways, handler observation and Tools to Trial by. Now its time to TALK COMMUNICATION.  Everything we DO, everything we SAY and even what we THINK, FEEL and SEE is part of the communication process from start line to finish between ourselves and our dog as a nose work team when we train...

In our TRAIN TO TRIAL & TRIAL TO TRAIN series we have explored the concepts of source and sourcing odor pathways with keen handler observation and the needed goals and resources for training competent skill sets to thrive in training AND in trial. Along this training and trial journey we (handlers and trainers) use numerous tools to build skill sets and clarity for both the dog and the handler...

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 discus...

Topic : TRAIN TO TRIAL and TRIAL TO TRAIN REWARD AT SOURCE ! How do we train SOURCE drive for Trial ? How do we reward AT source in training or in trial ? Is it the same or is it different ? Lets chat about Source Reward ! Its a fun topic to gain insight into the concepts of SOURCE REWARD  and what that may mean AND CHANGE in multiple scenarios from training accessible to inaccessible hides,  high...

Let's explore tips and tricks for training and trial confidence and experience the fun and amazement of team search work, in both training and in trial, as we hit the road in the next months to come in 2024.   We start with self discovery of our current skill sets and where we ARE NOW  and build thoughtful, productive, progressive training plans with measurable skill sets for trial day.  AND...

Part One is all about the activity of setting hides and using imagination to meet or measure your search training objectives. We disucss setting hides for carefree quick fixes or using specific categories to help describe and craft your hide setting choice within a progressive training plan of hide complexities including location, anticipation of odor movement and environmental influences. Then ad...

In Part 2 we explore the science of odor in the environment and our human perceptions of odor with enlightened odor intelligence gained from hours of observation watching our dogs search the odor environment to find what we are asking them to find when we ask them to find it. Build your Odor Intelligence with observation hours live or from video of any dog searching, any time, any where and with y...

Self learning in  scent detection dog sport training is vital for every handler to acknowledge and accept and embrace for both ourselves and our dogs. To become the best learners we can be, to provide oursleves and our dogs with the many opportunities to experience and learn,  and to become passionate about training and learning sufficient to build a confident olfaction team,  by developing our Be...

Relect, review and revitalize your learning throughout your self learning journey. Its essential to find resources for learning that work for you, that speak to your understanding. that supports' asking questions and ultimately honors your self training self, where you are now and where you may go next.  Find the tools to tighen, loosen or get just right the balance for you and your dog in tr...

Jill and Aleks have a wealth of experience hosting nosework and scentwork trial events and along with a survey share their experience and provide guidance on what the K9 Handlers in this detection dog sport find and value most in the trials they have attended and look for in their future competition trial choices. Send us Fan Mail

In Part Two of our focused conversation on Arousal and the Engaged Search Dog we explore the multiple and variable training tips and tricks to provide your dog with an opportunity to experience and learn about self-regulating arousal in and out of search, how to better understand the complexity of arousal and search/source drive and how to self manage our handler selves as well. Some Resources we...

In this jam packed Episode with take a deep dive into canine and handler arousal, its innate attributes and answer with conversation many questions we all have about arousal in our scent detection sport canines and how arousal affects our team success.  What is dog arousal ? What is optimum arousal for learning, training and performance ? How to identify low- medium or high arousal ? How to increa...