Category: Seminar

Scentwork Seminar by Mary Lehman of Essentially Fit K-9s

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February 7-9, 2020

Idaho Falls, ID This seminar is for dogs that already know odor, i.e. it isn’t for those just getting started (we offer great classes for that).  Each participant will be allowed to take 1 dog through seminar, rather than multiples for those that trial more than 1 dog. 

Friday 1 to 5 pm

Saturday/Sunday 8 am to 5 pm

Objective:  Solidifying foundational skills teaching a solid indication or what others call ‘obedience to odor’, applying a solid indication to searching – single/multiple hides.  My purpose for this is to eliminate, or at least reduce, the number of false alerts. We will also teach search strategy, the way to optimize the time you have for each search: Containers/Interior/Exterior/Buried

I highly recommend people video their dogs working, no video of classroom talks, however, folks are welcome to take notes in class.

A LITTLE ABOUT MARY LEHMAN:

Mary has been working detection dogs, in Search & Rescue for over 25 years and has been a general dog enthusiast all her life. She’s had the pleasure of instructing SAR detection seminars for over 16 years as well as evaluating SAR detection teams during that same time period.

Mary is a SAR Instructor/Assistant Evaluator with the International Police Work Dog Association as well as an Evaluator for the Tri-State K9 SAR organization. Over the years, she has participated in AKC obedience, Field Trialing, Schutzhund/IPO, Mondioring, SAR and Scentwork/Nosework.

There are many scent work organizations in the U.S. to choose from. Mary has been a UKC Nosework Judge since 2013, an AKC Scent Work judge since August 2017 and became affiliated as a member and judge with North American Canine Scent Work in October of 2018.

Mary has successfully earned the following titles on her German Shepherd, Leighton since January of 2019: AKC – SWN, SIA, SEA; UKC – NN, AN, SN, MC, MI; NACSW – NW1, NW2

The seminar will be located at the 4H buildings just south of Sandy Downs

Catherine Zinsky Workshop

Brian Meyers

The Great Salt Lake Dog Training Club is hosting a workshop with Catherine Zinsky. The dates are April 27 & 28, 2019.

Catherine’s seminar is geared toward all performance venues. So, if you’re just getting started or you are doing obedience, rally, agility or any other performance with your dog, you don’t want to miss this opportunity! It’s beneficial for companion dogs too!

More information can be found below:

Catherine Zinsky Workshop

Will Brunz Seminar

Brian Meyers

Will has been training dogs for over 30 years.  With his first Retriever, he learned from hunters around him and through books available, using the widely accepted methods of e-collars, choke chains and other aversive training techniques. In 2013, Will’s wife, Andrea, took her new puppy to a local training class and came home with a clicker.  Convinced she had been sold a container of snake oil at the county fair, Will went on an educational journey to prove how ineffective clicker training is.  The more he tried to prove her wrong, the more he realized that positive reinforcement was more in line with how he wanted to train his own dogs. To this day, she reminds him that he was the one who was indeed wrong.  This journey of discovery eventually led him to the Karen Pryor Academy, from which he graduated with distinction as a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner (KPA CTP). Whether teaching classes or giving seminars, Will combines humor and science to explain to his audience that his goal is not to train dogs, but to teach people how to communicate with their dogs for a strong, mutually understanding relationship.

Will and Andrea live in Northwest Montana and own Columbia Mountain Canine Center. They have four grown children who, for the most part, have forgiven them for all the times they were deliberately embarrassing. They have far too many dogs living in their house to be considered sane, but it keeps all the kids from moving back in. Will is also the founder and director of K9 Partners for America’s Warriors (K9 PAWS), a non-profit organization providing service dogs to veterans.

The seminar will be held at the Idaho Falls Activity Center, which is located at 1575 N Skyline Dr, Idaho Falls, ID 83402

OBEDIENCE TO ODOR SEMINAR

WHAT IS IT AND HOW DO WE GET IT?

February 9 & 10, 2019  8:30-3:30

  1. Get Ready, Get Set, Slow Down To Go Fast
    • Where have we been and where are we going on this sniffing journey
  2. Classical Conditioning to Odor
    • Teach your dog to LOVE LOVE LOVE odor
  3. Shaping Fluency To Odor
    • What does Fluency look like in Scent Detection
  4. Odor at a distance
  5. Generalizing Odor
    • Dog will learn to indicate on visible odor targets
  6. Vertical Odor
    • Dog will learn to indicate on odor targets placed vertically
  7. Discriminations

TOTAL RECALL

February 9, 2019  3:30-5:00

Does your dog come when called, or only when she wants to? Does she have trouble coming away from distractions such as other dogs or something on the ground? Does she come part way and then kindly invite you to chase her?

This seminar will break down the behavior chain of recall, give you a step by step guide to each step of the recall chain so that you can be reasonably assured your dog will be like Arnold when she says, “I’ll Be Back!”

 

WALK THIS WAY

LOOSE LEASH WALKING SEMINAR

February 10, 2019  3:30-5:00

Are you tired of being pulled like a water skier while walking your pup?

Would you like to no longer use a prong collar, e-collar or choke chain to get your dog to walk respectfully with you?

What is Loose Leash Walking? 
More fun and relaxed than the stricter “heel“ position, loose leash walking is useful when you are giving your dog permission to sniff, explore and relieve himself as long as he stays with you and doesn’t put tension on the leash. The goal is to have a dog that will walk nicely on your side, slightly in front of or slightly in back of you.

I will show you a proven step by step plan to teach your dog how to walk on a loose leash that we use to teach our service dogs.