Auditing Spot – Competitive Scentwork Seminar Seminar with Hallie McMullen

Hallie McMullen has more than 25 years of experience training dogs. She began training drug and explosive detection dogs for law enforcement in 1996. She became certified as a detection dog trainer and evaluator in 2000 and continues to work with dogs. Hallie became involved in the competitive sport of scent detection in 2015 and became a judge for the NACSW. When the AKC took on the sport in 2017, Hallie was one of their original judges and now serves as an expert judge, helping others
who want to become judges. She teaches classes in Boise, Idaho year-round and travels to give seminars and judge trials.
She participates in other sports with her German Shepherds including herding, IGP, tracking, obedience, and conformation.

She will be presenting two one-day seminars:

“Air Flow and Search Management” We will work on reading the environment and understanding how air movement and conditions are impacting the search to improve search success.

“Reading Your Dog” Focus concepts: Reading indications – Improving indications – Blank rooms – Behavioral changes on high hides/odor convergence/inaccessible hides – Building search stamina – Recognizing frustration – Behavior/communication when area is cleared.