Locked: You must purchase this stream to view it Nosework - Obedience to Odors and Focused Response
4 stars (6 reviews)
1 hr, 26 min
February 11, 2013
This will be the second training DVD that Leerburg has done on nosework with Andrew Ramsey. Our first DVD covered the foundation of Nosework training. If you don't have that DVD, you can go to our web page for The Foundation of Nosework and see a very detailed outline of what the training video covered. The goal of this training video is to cover Andrew Ramsey's methods for teaching obedience to odor and a focused response. Both of these are very important skills that every detector dog should know. If you are new to nosework training and have not taken your dog through the foundation of this work you will have to do that before attempting the training in this DVD. This DVD is laid out to show the training steps for Obedience to Odor (OTO), a Focused Response (FR) in addition to a chapter on the finer points of handling a nose work dog while in training. Leerburg's policy has always been to use untrained dogs in our videos and DVDs. It is our opinion that new trainers learn more from watching others work with untrained dogs. In the handler training chapter of our DVD, we are going to review various aspects of handling a detector dog. Even though these subjects were talked about in our first nosework DVD they are so important that we need to revisit and talk about them again: 1. The timing of reward delivery. How correct timing builds to a FR. We will discuss and demonstrate proper footwork during a search. 2. We will cover correct leash handling and footwork during a search. 3. We will cover the difference in handling a lower drive dog vs. a high drive fast dog during a search. 4. We will also cover drive building techniques and why choosing the right reward for each dog is fundamental to a good detector dog. 5. We also have a segment on the relationship between the handler & the trainer and how it will change during the detector dog training program.
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Nosework - Obedience to Odors and Focused Response

Uploaded on February 11, 2013 • 1 hr, 26 min
This will be the second training DVD that Leerburg has done on nosework with Andrew Ramsey.

Our first DVD covered the foundation of Nosework training. If you don't have that DVD, you can go to our web page for The Foundation of Nosework and see a very detailed outline of what the training video covered.

The goal of this training video is to cover Andrew Ramsey's methods for teaching obedience to odor and a focused response. Both of these are very important skills that every detector dog should know.

If you are new to nosework training and have not taken your dog through the foundation of this work you will have to do that before attempting the training in this DVD.

This DVD is laid out to show the training steps for Obedience to Odor (OTO), a Focused Response (FR) in addition to a chapter on the finer points of handling a nose work dog while in training.

Leerburg's policy has always been to use untrained dogs in our videos and DVDs. It is our opinion that new trainers learn more from watching others work with untrained dogs.

In the handler training chapter of our DVD, we are going to review various aspects of handling a detector dog. Even though these subjects were talked about in our first nosework DVD they are so important that we need to revisit and talk about them again:

1. The timing of reward delivery. How correct timing builds to a FR. We will discuss and demonstrate proper footwork during a search.
2. We will cover correct leash handling and footwork during a search.
3. We will cover the difference in handling a lower drive dog vs. a high drive fast dog during a search.
4. We will also cover drive building techniques and why choosing the right reward for each dog is fundamental to a good detector dog.
5. We also have a segment on the relationship between the handler & the trainer and how it will change during the detector dog training program.

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Seif1993
January 25, 2024
Amazing
Seif1993
October 1, 2017
Should be part of the first DVD.
dannybowden
March 28, 2017
This is a good dvd that shows the real problems we encounter when training detection dogs and it is great to see a training source using green dogs and not the perfect example dog. I would say it is a little poor that the DVD is teaching new handlers that it is ok to train within contaminated areas. Any previous hide such as the contaminated plastic drawers should be removed and not just left open or you are teaching a dog to walk on residual. Also as some others have mentioned, this DVD content could of easily been included in the foundation DVD, it is a rip off charging for another DVD.
abhibhas23
March 7, 2015
This could have been easily clubbed with the earlier foundation DVD. It's not really that different or advanced to warrant a second DVD and additional price :-)

The content though is valuable, hence the rating.
BPDTurk
December 27, 2014
We play a game with Turk in which we hide his rope, and have him “Find It” (that’s the command) he seems to enjoy the game, and even get excited to play and find it. One time we hid two ropes and he found the one we had him smell before hiding the 2nd the rope, then we did it again this time putting the 2nd rope on top the game rope, he moved the 2nd rope and grabbed the game rope. So today his Nose-work kit arrived, we took a tin with a Q-tip scented in “Cloves” we hid the tin then said, “find it” he ran in smelled around and hit on it. Patty called him back to her and it was moved, again we said “find-it” and he came running in and again found it within a few second… It is fun to see him start sniffing around and then move toward it, then find it… there are steps to take to have him hit and sit, or freeze, and we will follow those steps, but as far as nosework goes, it is a game he seems to enjoy, he seems to understand “find-it” and whatever the sent is he will find it.. I changed scents after a half dozen times with the Cloves, I switched to “Aniseed oil” I let him smell the new scent, said, “find it” and off he went, sniffed around and went to it. He seems like a natural… and the pep in his step seems like he likes the game. He played with the Aniseed oil about a half dozen times and was done playing, from what I understand you are not supposed to play too long anyway, so I would guess the 18 or so times he played was enough, he found it all but may two times and those two times he was in the area, he just didn’t point directly to it, and one of those times it was up under a cabinet, so just standing at the cabinet was pretty good, the other miss, again he was standing at the shelf it was on, he just didn’t smell from the floor up high enough, so he knew he was in the area, he just laid down looking at the shelf, all the other times he put his nose right up to the tin… after that I did it one more time, I like him to finish on the high note, so I put it where we started out, He seemed to check their first every time… he went right in and right to it, and stopped searching.

By the way, Turk has been being paid with "Praise" I know to get him to freeze or sit, I will need to pay with food. From what I am seeing, as he will wait for the payoff, after he finds the scent it won't matter if it is food or a toy, and as he learns he will wait longer by the scent for the pay-off. Turk will get his pay-off, eat it, then turn to us for praise... I know because so far, he has found the item, then looked on to us for praise. This is Fun, I am a retired Police Officer/Detective injured in the line of duty and can no longer walk, so for us this is police games Turk a GSD likes playing cops and robbers
SweetCharlie
December 1, 2014
This is a comment, not a full review. The dogs here all seem to be paid with a toy. I pay my dogs with food. I would like to see that demoed.
John
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