K9s Talking Scents

Dr. Cablk is well known in the SAR community and more recently become known to Law Enforcement on various cases she has testified on. We discuss all this is so much more. Dr. Mary E. Cablk is an expert in detection and systems. In her research, she draws upon knowledge from multiple fields such as olfaction, analytical chemistry, learning, cognitive and industrial/occupational psychology, forensic...

On this podcast, we get to finally discuss the cognition testing and research on how predictable the cognition tests on puppies are in determining if they are potential detection or working dogs.   Many of us who work breed or train dogs always know its a crap shoot at times to know if the puppy we are working with can or will turn out to do what we hope.   Dr. Emily Bray conducted her post-doctor...

On this Episode I get to speak with Bill Gaskins of Integrity Noseworx. Bill is the son of two retired police officers in Oregon and has been working with dogs since he was 11 years old. During his Air Force Experience Bill a Military Working Dog Handler of 10 different dogs, Dog Trainer for over 50 operational Dog Teams and Kennel Master managing kennel operations all over the world. As a canine...

On this episode we speak with Ken Pavlick of Pacific Coast K9. Ken has been working dogs for over 30 years.   He was first in the USAF as a MWD Handler, then a Police Officer and K9 Handler for agencies on the West Coast.   Later he opened Pacific Coast K9 located in Washington and has been training and selling detection dogs ever since.   Ken due to his experience is a wealth of knowledge and has...

Don Blair had his start with working K9s as a police officer. Having served as a K9 officer for 5 years, he moved into US Customs and Border Protection and quickly worked his way through a variety of roles including Canine Enforcement Officer, Instructor/Course Developer and Canine Branch Chief. He was responsible for supervision of Department of Homeland Security/Customs Border Protection anti-te...

The last Episode of Season 2 goes out with a bang!!! In this episode, I speak with Todd Wilber.   Todd Wilber, President of Precision Explosives LLC Todd has worked for over 20 years in counterterrorism as a responder, researcher, policy writer and senior manager. He responded to various incidents at the local, national and transnational levels. His experience includes battlefield firsthand experi...

In this podcast, I sit down with my good friend Wesely Visscher owner of Scent Imprint for Dogs (based in Holland).   Wesely has been working and training detection dogs for many years now and more recently has been very focused on the Bio Detection and Conservation Detection worlds.   Conservation and Bio Detection dogs are an emerging market and we discuss this as well as many other detection tr...

This is a powerful episode where we talk to the Commanding officer and unit Sgt. of the prestigious NYPD Transit Bureau K9 unit. This unit is comprised of over 50 dog teams and protect NY City for every major event that happens, from UN National Assembly, US OPEN, New Year's Eve, Times Square, the entire subway system in their jurisdiction, and so much more.   We cover the "value of fail...

Paul S. Martin, M.A. is an anthropologist and K9 handler for History Flight, Inc. with K9 Ziva, where they assist in the search and recovery of missing American Service Members from foreign conflicts. He also provides archaeological consulting services through Martin Consulting. He is an affiliate of the Society of American Archaeology, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and is the past pre...

Robin has been involved in detection work since 2001, beginning in wilderness and human remains detection (HRD), which expanded into disaster work. She trains and deploys with Nebraska Task Force 1 and Iowa Task Force 1. She is a certified explosives and narcotics detection dog handler.  Subject matter expert for the AAFS Dogs and Sensors Consensus Body Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),...

Gord McGuinness is currently a member of the Metro Vancouver Transit Police Service in British Columbia, Canada. This new assignment follows a 34-year career with the Vancouver Police Department. Prior to his retirement from the VPD, Gord spent 18 of 34 years as a canine handler and worked five police service dogs during his time in the VPD Canine Unit. For more than a decade Gord held the positio...

Cheltenham Township Police Officer Robert "Doc" Dougherty has become an integral member of the Penn Vet Working Dog Center as law enforcement canine coordinator. With more than 31 years of law enforcement and K9 experience, "Doc" brings vital training skills to the program.   Penn Vet website https://www.vet.upenn.edu/research/centers-laboratories/center/penn-vet-working-dog-ce...

Sonja's accomplishments with dogs and training credentials achieved during the last 25 years are unmatched. In 2014, Sonja retired from the FBI after 23 years of service as a Special Agent and opened Sonja's Dog Training.  While serving with the FBI, Sonja completed thousands of hours of training under nationally recognized trainers, competed in the protection sports of Schutzhund, Mondi...

In this episode, I interview the fascinating Dr. Cindy Otto is an associate professor and veterinarian with specialty certification in both Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care and Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. She has worked in the Emergency Service at the University of Pennsylvania MJ Ryan Veterinary Hospital for over 20 years. She has been a member of FEMA’s Pennsylvania Urba...

Scent detection is an art form in dog training that is best described as a methodology with many nuances. Two very well respected trainers who are well known for their work in scent training join us for this episode. Jerry Bradshaw and Cameron Ford join us again, this time together, to share their ideas and techniques in scent training. Like most trainers, both of these gentlemen have their respec...

Dr. Lazaroski and Bart Rogers are part of the Auburn University Canine Performance Sciences. Their current research focuses on the selection, training, and utilization of scent detection dogs by examining early development, olfactory function, cognitive processes, and welfare. Her work has been published in a variety of journals including Animal Cognition, Learning and Behavior, Behavioural Proces...

In this episode, we get to speak to Nathalie van Hellemond from Scent Imprint for dogs.   Nathalie is a trainer and helps work all dogs at the Scent Imprint for a dogs training center in Holland.   Nathalie discusses her journey and education in holland to become a dog trainer.   What I find very unique about what she talks about is how the education system is a mix of learning theory in the class...

This episode with Chris Oliver we discuss the unique challenges of working a detection dog in a jail environment and the unique challenges this presents. We also cover what he has learned and how he has evolved as a handler and trainer. Chris also covers how he takes his experience and uses it to help create very strong competitive Nosework teams with his sport side of his business. You can contac...

This podcast with the owners of K9 Services Unlimited LLC. This episode was done when they came out to Las Vegas and visited me at the Ford K9 Training Center.   Justin and Mike have extensive experience in Police K9 and K9 Training.   Both share their knowledge and backgrounds when it comes to detection work and Tracking from a professional's point of view.    If you want to contact Justin o...

This is a double drop episode from my Interviews at the CNCA conference.   First up is Ted Daus who is well known in the K9 legal community.   Ted has extensive knowledge in the detection dog world with the numerous cases he has worked as a prosecutor in FL.   He is also a part of the HITS K9 seminars and gives classes all over the world, on topics such as record keeping and legal updates for K9 h...

Tim Baird went from herding dogs, to Police officer K9 Handler, to working at Auburn University puppy and Vapor Wake Program. He then continued to the commercial world with contractor work and Vapor Wake K9s.   He has assisted TSA and other DHS programs and has now started The 5B Farms which family operated by his wife Traci and 3 daughters, is a program for breeding and raising labradors for dete...

Pat Nolan: Following a successful 30-year career training retrievers for hunting and competitions, I began to apply lessons learned in e-collar conditioning and remote directional training to working with military and police units. This is a partial list of agencies I have worked for: GSG9 der Bundespolizei BORTAC US Customs Special Operations Group ATF Netherlands Police Agency, Specialist Crimin...

Pat Stuart is a former Special Forces K9 Handler from Australia.   He is also the host of the well known Podcast The Canine Paradigm.   Pat's business (the Operant Canine) conducts seminars world wide under the Ne Po Po training methods.   He offers great insight and advice on canine behavior and training. You can find him on social media under his name or The Operant Canine www.operantcanine...

Dr. Nathan Hall who had the most votes for favorite episode of 2019, gives us an update on research projects he has been doing as well as new technology for detection dogs.   We also cover the new K9s Talking Scents Webinar series he will be doing with me. Dr. Nathan Hall Assistant Professor of Companion Animal Science Director of the Canine Olfaction Research and Education Laboratory Nathaniel Ha...

Welcome to Season 2....   This is Episode 20, the first episode in 2020 and why not do a role reversal.   In this episode, I am interviewed by Pete Stevens (who was my first interview of Season 1 episode 1). Pete is the owner of The Scentsable Canine and felt it was important for the listeners of K9s Talking Scents to get to learn more about me, since I am the host and always asking questions to o...