Tonight, I put Daphne to the test with a new challenge! I found some almonds at Costco—one variety made with peanut oil and another that claims to be peanut-free. Daphne was first imprinted on peanut oil back in the first week of May, and I’m so impressed with how far she’s come. She’s such a sweet girl who genuinely loves the work. It feels so rewarding to see her progress and know we’re making a difference for someone in need. 💛
If anyone has any food suggestions, with and without peanuts, that you would like to see if Daphne will alert on drop them in the comments!!!
#servicedogtraining #peanutdetection
Let the explosive odor imprinting begin. Tonight we target fed for TNT. #workingdog #odordetection #detectionpuppy #sitalert #tnt #explosivedetectiondog
One of the best parts of bringing your dog to work is this is how I spend my break time. She’s in heat so he has her gray camo BitchBritches on. #breaktime #servicedog #frisbeedog
Doing nothing is something. Even for these workers it one must still practice the art of Clillax. The interesting thing is that Mazi and Speirs don’t even have a verbal down or place command yet (Daphne does because of her SA goals). All they know is “up” to get up onto something and they can’t get off of it until the command “off”. #workingdog #workingpuppy #doingnothing #doingsomething #doingnothingisdoingsomething #huffmank9obedience #umvikelik9
🐾 Working on getting Daphne to “check” things that I present to her and then being able to pull away and offer the down alert on her target odor (3 drops of peanut oil on a cotton ball). Before having a down alert, she had a lock up with her nose on the source. 🐶
Also, I threw in some other odor canisters as blanks to proof her to only down on her target peanut odor. 🥜
#servicedogintraining #peanutallergy #allergydetectiondog #workingdog #workingpuppy
🐾 Update on Daphne! 🐾
We’ve decided to train her as a Peanut Allergy Alert Service Dog. 🥜 In collaboration with her new potential handlers, we’ve chosen a down alert as her signal. Here she is on day 2 of learning her new Trained Final Response when she detects the odor. So proud of her progress! 💪🐶
#servicedogintraining #peanutallergyawareness #dogtraining #servicedog
🔫 Box Feeding💥
Speirs, at 8 months old, has mastered 0.22 powder actuated loads in box feeding today. Subjectively, the Tapcon power 4s seem much louder than 22lr. To master box feeding, the dog must choose to ignore distractions and keep his head in the box throughout the feeding. This little man never ceases to amaze me and continually reminds me that the effort is worthwhile. With all the work invested in him over the last 6 months, the results are beginning to manifest themselves.
📦 Box Feeding - making weak dogs strong and strong dogs unbreakable 🦾
#huffmank9obedience #umvikelik9 #boxfeeding #workingdog #detectiondog #workingpuppy
Apparently it was a day for helicopters. But if we wanted to know where Speirs’ stability comes from, here is his mother off lead healing as a helicopter takes off. She didn’t really like all the wind but holds her position. #workingdog #stabledog
Just look at the power of early sound desensitization from Puppy Culture and Early Neurological Stimulation in action! Today, Speirs had his first encounter with a helicopter landing just 30 yards away. Not a single flinch, just calm curiosity. Proud moment as he even listened his “off” command flawlessly. 🚁#earlyneurologicalstimulation #sounddesensitization #workingpuppy #stressmangement
Pushing boundaries with box feeding! 📦💪
Layering stressors to build Speirs’ motivation and resilience. Today, in a he presence of his father, another intact male, he chose to ignore a milk jug filled with nuts and bolts to hold his sit alert for his odor source. The noise, the contact—it’s all part of the journey. No harm done, just growth. Building an unbreakable dog for personal protection is the goal.
Box feeding: making weak dogs strong and strong dogs unbreakable.
#dogtraining #resiliencebuilding #boxfeeding #canecorso #dogoargentino #puppytraining #workforyourgoals #unbreakable #unbreakabledog #strongdog #mentalstrength #choosetoignore #detectionpuppy #detectiondaily
Making weak dogs strong and Strong dogs unbreakable. Box feeding for odor with Speirs tonight. This little man has been rapidly handling the stress induced by the box in stride, very happy with him. #huffmank9obedience #umvikelik9 #workingmastiffs #workingdog #boxfeeding
So I start off with a couple short videos on how I set things up for my boy Speirs and then we get into working the detection box. Tonight he definitely did some things differently and I missed marking an alert. I started putting more odors out so that when I notice that he is going off memory, I then pull the odor and make him hunt a new source. You’ll see in the beginning he starts looking for a new source before I pull the odor and I didn’t trust him that he alerted on the right spot so I went to verify… then he pulled himself off. Totally my fault. He went on to find a different source and by the end of the video he did alert on the one I missed. Of which I realized the one I missed marking is the one he struggles with the most. I don’t know why but fired .22lr brass is the one he takes the longest to find and longest to commit to. Anyway I am really happy with his enthusiasm and how the little sniffer is just constantly going. #detectionk9 #workingmastiff #workingpuppy #workyourdog #workingdogo #workingcorso
