Ascent Dog Training

02/11/2025

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08/09/2024

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09/14/2023

Announcing my return to Nosework and Scentwork coaching for teams at all levels. I offer private and semi-private lessons in and around Hillsborough, NC and workshops and seminars anywhere. Email [email protected] for more info if you're interested in taking your team to the next level.

01/09/2023

Intro To K9 Nosework© class starting January 2023 in Durham, NC.

Schedule your appointment online Learning to Dog

09/29/2022

Join us for the new session of nosework classes in and around Hillsborough, NC. Focus for this session will be Exterior and Vehicle searches. Send an email to [email protected]

07/10/2022

How would you shape the behavior of fanning a deck of cards?

07/02/2022

Anybody need any nosework suplies?

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06/26/2022

"E...D...U...C...A...T...I...O...N..." It's out there. Look for it.

It is almost impossible to learn dressage-based concepts without first knowing what the various terms mean, words and phrases like “engagement,” “on the aids,” “inside leg to outside rein,” “over the back and through.”

We don’t teach kids to read before they learn the alphabet, or to do math problems before they know the numbers. And yet all over the world there are riders and drivers diligently taking dressage lessons who couldn’t correctly define “engagement” if they would win a vacation to Cancun by doing so.

There is a word for the so often missing link.
E-D-U-C-A-T-I-O-N

So many riders don’t read. They don’t study. They hear these words and phrases, even in lessons, without taking the time or making the effort to actually figure out what they mean.

If we were told, “If you bring me a totlefrat, I will give you a million dollars,” the most logical first question would be---“What is a totlefrat?”

How can we learn it before we know what “it” is?

06/05/2022

This study has certainly brought up many questions for me. How fair is it for us to ask our dogs to do agility when we don't have an easy way to test their vision?

06/04/2022

Reminder to self and anyone else who needs it.

06/03/2022

I learned a new term today: Dialogue Learning
"I see the dog's behavior as influential data not about what's wrong with the animal but what's wrong with my training. And then I revise; I become a better trainer." For a mind blowing and inspiring experience, listen to this podcast of an interview with Susan Friedman. I might recommend starting your listen at 21:00 minutes where they start talking about actual training examples and then go back to the start where they talk about the definition of terms.
http://nickbenger.com/susan-friedman/

05/26/2022

Talented dogs take us to a new level of handling. Challenging dogs take us to a new level of training. - Kathy Keats (And in Jaime's case he was talented AND challenging. And taught me so much.)

05/18/2022

We see this frequently in nosework and some feel it’s a sign of stress but could it simply be the dog finds the presence of odor exciting?

The video show the effect on dog's pulse after the shaking it off behaviour.Music : reCreation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Common...

04/30/2022

Do you use choice as a reinforcer? https://www.clickertraining.com/beyond-clicking-and-treating-the-power-of-choice

04/19/2022

Very proud of little Spriggs. She came in 6th in the Moncure, NC Elite trial even with missing 2 hides in the first search which were totally my fault because I had to rush her out of the area because I saw she needed to p**p (note to self: make sure she p**ps BEFORE the large exterior search!) Here is one of her searches. There were an unknown number (there were 6) and we had 4 minutes, 30 seconds to search. https://youtu.be/pwL4T1EG6tA

04/09/2022

Agreed?

04/07/2022

'Nuff said.