Scent Detection Questions

Back by Popular Demand! Motivating Indications Free Webinar | Hunter’s Heart

May 11, 2021

Back by Popular Demand! Motivating Indications Free Webinar | Does your sniffer dog know what to do after they locate scent? Are they focussed with rapt attention? Or are you anxious or frustrated about what might happen after the moment of truth, like digging, mouthing, barking, leaving or quitting altogether? Learn the secrets of motivating indications at our FREE webinar. [...]

Demystifying Indications Free Webinar on Sun. Nov. 15, 2020 | Hunter’s Heart

November 14, 2020

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 6:00 PM MST Registration is now open at: https://scentdetection.huntersheart.com/pl/239367/ Here’s what we’ll cover at the webinar: [...]

Scent Theory: How Scent Cones Move

December 26, 2019

Scent is a moving target, carried and distorted by the wind. As a handler, one of the most challenging parts of your job is figuring out how to help your sniffer dog get to [...]

Sourcing, Residual Odor and Preventing False Alerts FAQ – Part 2

May 13, 2018

In Part 1, I explained why your dog should be working to source in every search i.e. getting his nose as close as physically possible to the highest concentration of odor. [...]

Table Distraction Game for Sniffer Dogs

February 26, 2018

Reliable scent dogs must ignore food, toy, and environmental distractions to find target odor. This video shows the Table Distraction Game we play with our scent dogs away [...]

Top Scent Dog Training Books and Websites 2017

December 1, 2017

Shopping for the holiday season? You can never have too many scent dog training books, right? Here’s a list of our favorite canine books and websites you might enjoy: [...]

What Do Sperm and Puppies Have in Common?

October 20, 2017

They both rely on scent to navigate through their environment. Sperm use chemotaxis to navigate to eggs, and newborn puppies use olfaction to navigate to the milk in their [...]

Odor Hygiene at Nosework Competitions

October 5, 2017

Odor hygiene refers to properly handling target odor, so you know with certainty where odor is located, and where it is not located. Good odor hygiene enables more teams to [...]

How to Enter a UKC Nosework Trial

March 1, 2017

This 33 minute tutorial explains how to enter a UKC Nosework Trial, using Sniff Alberta’s Premium list and entry forms as examples. It answers FAQ’s including how [...]

Shopping for Nosework Supplies

February 27, 2017

Question: Where do you buy your shipping labels, cardboard boxes and blotting papers for cocktailing hides? I think I’d like to set up some kind of scent lab in my [...]