Simon teaches detection dogs to find odors in vehicles by starting with wall searches, then treating a car as four walls combined. He demonstrates how to guide dogs to seams, wheel wells, and trunks, rewarding sits and letting them clear areas before continuing.
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All right, guys. Hey, this is Simon. We're doing the short set today through our evolution of a detection dog. Obviously, we start out the phase out there teaching them odor, teaching them to hunt. And we slowly progress and we move them to the wall where we have them hitting odors and building pattern and developing the final. Once we have that set in place, we start putting odors and using place association to teach dogs that they can not only find odors on the wall, but they can find odors on the vehicle. Our vehicle is no different than the wall. All it is is just 4 walls put together and there's more places for the dog to find odor. So here it's just a matter of teaching the dog that They can find odor in these seams, wheel wells, and the hood seams, the trunk, and just developing that association so they could understand that they could find the stimulus there. Make sure he clears it. Let him work it out. He's close. Keep walking. Try and pull him off, and as soon as he stands up to go back to work He's, he's not on source. He's correct, he's just not on source. Let him work that area out. Now lift him into a sit. Come up that line and just guide him into a sit. I'll just slide my hand here, get him into a sit, and then I pay right on the sit. Stand straight up. He's not on source. Just give him a— just keep walking, try and pull him off of it. And once he goes back to sniffing, go to— go back to work. Whoo! That a boy! Good man! All right guys, thanks for checking in with us. I hope you learned many things, and many things you will learn if you just follow along with us. So go ahead, check out our series, and hope to hear from you guys. Thank you.
