Learning Objectives

This class teaches: - Clear definitions of terminology like residual odor and accessibility vs. availability - Basic principles of how odor moves, tailored specifically for the scent sport handler. - How to use a smoke machine to help you visualize air movement and set hides with clarity and intention. 

Key Features

This class utilizes pictures, easy to understand explanations, and videos to illustrate concepts. The material is  segmented into  chapters and lessons for easy digestibility --you can start and stop at will.   There are interactive quizzes scattered throughout  so that you can consolidate your knowledge and activate understanding. 

Who This Class is For

This course is for anyone training or competing in scent work or nose work, using essential oil target odors (birch, anise, clove, cypress, myrrh, vetiver).

About the course

This is the class that I wish I had when I first started in scent work.  It explains what you need to know for clarity in handling and hide setting: starting with  definitions, and moving to the basics of odor movement and dynamics. Unlike many classes, which were developed for search and rescue work, or tracking, this class targets the specific knowledge that the  scent work sports competitor needs to know. 

Ellen Heavner

I am a scent work trainer, instructor, competitor, student, and judge in many venues (AKC, UKC, USCSS, ASCA). I have been teaching for about ten years and competing for longer than that. I am fascinated by the science of scent, and how dogs perceive it. By far the most difficult thing about teaching is getting students to understand the nature of odor and what the dogs are doing when they are searching. These classes are a compilation of my knowledge about the odors we use in sports detection.

Curriculum

4 Chapters · 15 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Class Structure and Navigation

  2. 2

    The Basics: Definitions

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Definitions Part One

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Quiz: Definitions Part One

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Definitions Part Two

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      Quiz: Definitions Part Two

  3. 3

    How Odor Moves

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      How Odor Moves - The Shape of the Cone and the Odor Vessels

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Quiz How Odor Moves Shape of the Odor Cone and Vessels

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      How Odor Moves-- Odor Sticks to Objects

    4. (Included in full purchase)

      How Odor Moves -- Temperature, humidity, and sunlight

    5. (Included in full purchase)

      Quiz How Odor Moves -- Temperature, Humidity, Sunlight

    6. (Included in full purchase)

      How Odor Moves Metal, Convergence

    7. (Included in full purchase)

      Quiz How Odor Moves Convergence, Metal

  4. 4

    Using Smoke to Make Odor Visible

    1. (Included in full purchase)

      How to Use Smoke

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Downloadable Guide to Sources of Smoke

    3. (Included in full purchase)

      Downloadable Guide How to Use a Smoke Machine

Understand the Scent Cone!

Become a better handler for your dog! Step into her world.

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