This DVD covers a foundation for nosework with your dog taught by trainer Andrew Ramsey. Nosework is a new dog sport where individuals can train their household pet to detect legal odors. It is 100% motivational training and has absolutely no corrections at any level of work.

Training segments for this DVD:

• What’s Needed to Get Started
• Training Lab
• Three Nosework Terms
• Handler/Trainer Relationship
• First Steps of Training
• Toy Reward vs. Food Reward
• De-sensitizing Your Dog to Training Lab
• Dog with Serious ENVIRONMENTAL Problems
• Foundation of a Search Pattern
• Toy Reward Dogs
• When to Add Odor
• Initial Training for Food Reward Dogs
• Adding Odor to Training
• Step One Train Focused Response
• Learning to Use a Payment Delivery Device
• Reward Delivery
• Timing of Reward Delivery
• Bracketing
• Scent Cones
• Reading your Dog
• Oder Acquisition
• Training the Trainer
• New Trainers Learning Reward Delivery
• Classically Conditioning Food Delivery Device
• Residual Odor
• When to Add Blind Searches
• How Often to Give Help or Search Command
• How Long to Train and How to End Your Training Session

Read about tortoise tracking with nosework. This is a unique project from South Africa that uses Leerburg's nosework techniques for finding and researching an endangered species.

February 8th, 2013

Dear Ed and Andrew,

I’m going to keep this brief but a year ago; I knew nothing about the field of detection (& its training) and had no detection dog.

Thanks to a great pup from breeder and the Nosework DVD I purchased through Leerburg I have managed to achieve the following training on my own (http://youtu.be/SODbkR4OUZ8). This is just the start of the process and we have a long way to go. Plus I needed to adjust the technique to suit the live conservation detection target i.e. no focus stare to odour and search pattern fluidity, and the equipment I had available. But all things considered I am so pleased with what I have been able to achieve so far and it is largely due to your amazing detection training system. I researched other systems but this one really speaks to me. One is able to create the environment for the dog to learn the work itself & become an independent searcher so little handler interference. This is just what I needed!

Anyway I really just wanted to say a HUGE thank you as without this I wouldn’t have been able to get this unique conservation detection project off the ground here in the Western Cape, South Africa.

I hope that we will continue to get better and better and make a contribution to preventing this tortoise species going into extinction.

Yours in gratitude,
Vicki

P.S. Ed, apart from the DVD- I have been able to purchase essential other training equipment through Leerburg and continue to do so on a regular basis as budget allows. The quality and durability of the products outweighs the high costs due to exchange rates & import duties! Cheap local products just don’t last with my Malinois. So thank you for this too!

April 9, 2012

I just watched the Leerburg Nosework DVD, and it is great! It's the best way to get into detection work. Andrew is a great trainer, and his system is such that it will bring out the drive in any dog. He and Ed explain in very simple terms the foundation for detection training any dog. They work with a broad spectrum of dogs, from Cindy's Rush who is a high drive Malinois, to a 12 year old Dachshund, and they all have a great time. This is fun for every dog. In 3-1/2 hours of video, there was not one correction or compulsive environment.

The implementation of the Food Delivery Device is revolutionary. Previously, only very high prey / toy drive dogs could be trained focused response on source, but the Food Delivery Device changes that. Any dog can perform like a champ.

Detection training is very subtle. Without proper timing of rewards, proper handling and proper reward delivery, nosework is not possible. Andrew and Ed very successfully communicate these subtleties through explanation and examples of proper and improper actions. I can't recommend this video enough if you are looking for an activity to engage your dog's mind and body, or if you are involved in a small Police K9 detection program and wish to imprint your own dogs.

I can't wait for the rest of the series to become available. This is a "must have" video if you are interested in Nosework.