This seminar will bring a diverse team of experienced trainers to address multiple facets of skills needed for vehicle and building searches in particular.  Handlers will be challenged to work in close-quarters and on leash with their dogs to illustrate and better understand their influence on their dogs. The course will address how to “dance” with your dog when working on leash, how to present productive odor areas without cueing, how to develop and train a systematic search pattern, how to build independence and working “through the leash,” reward presentation, verbal vs. physical cues, and how to recognize and articulate all aspects of your dog’s changes of behavior. Techniques learned in the close-quarters environment will then be extrapolated to off leash larger area searches.
 
Topics Covered:

• Search strategies for buildings and vehicle searches for detection K9s

• How to present productive odor areas without cueing

• How to develop and train a systematic search pattern

• Building independence and working 'through the leash'

• Verbal vs. physical cues

• Legal considerations 

Trainers:
Bill Dotson
Steve Warburton
Donald Trusty
Sonja Nordstrom
 
Details: 
When: May 15-17, 2020
(Event Hours:  0800-1700 Friday, Saturday and 0800-1200 Sunday)

Where: Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, 911 East Sawmill, Flagstaff, Arizona 

Cost:  $325 per handler with dog; $150 per handler without dog.

Lunch will be included on site Friday and Saturday.

REGISTER AT: http://www.sdona.org/reg-handler-influence-may-2020.html