A great day to train the bomb dogs! Worked with our @truescentk9 training aids. PETN, RDX, Ammonium Nitrate and Potassium Chlorate for today! Valkyrie just needs to add TNT, TATP and HMTD before being ready to certify and work this summer!
Odor activates ball/fetch. Valkyrie comes out of her crate looking for a ball/Kong or anything that resembles a ball. So the new game is find smokeless powder and you get the ball/fetch. She has one speed which is fast, all of the time. We will work on that. I did ask for a little duration just to see where she is. We did our first session last night for about 10 minutes in the garage doing the same thing. And like I advise to my clients, get the dog out in the real world with real world distractions as soon as possible! Especially if you are wanting to get into the contract world. We will play around with smokeless powder for a while before introducing a new odor. I have found that once you teach them the game and have a solid imprinting method, it’s relatively easy to imprint/add new odors.
Eli Update. After my work trip this weekend, I will officially begin the imprinting process with smokeless powder. He is showing me really great things through our fetch sessions and me hiding the ball for him. I love his ability to work on his own and his drive to continue the hunt.
Intermediate detection seminar details! Dates: August 4th and August 18th. 10am-5pm both days. 6 working spots ($300), audit spots ($100). Open to: anyone whose dog is imprinted on odor, anyone who has taken the intro to detection seminar or any of my private session students. If you are interested and don’t fall into one of these categories, reach out and we can set up a session for me to evaluate your dog and see if they are up to the intermediate standards.