Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Interior Searches Webinar Christina Young direction or other odor cues

direction or other odor cues and determine what odor may or may not be doing in the search as the search unfolds

Perhaps you didn't start by using pairing or have never used pairing before

Dana will address topics relating not only to start lines (the boundary often deemed the most important) but also to literal ones set by makers and the invisible ones created by handlers

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Have you graduated the Introduction to Scent Work course

Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Interior Searches Webinar Christina Young direction or other odor cuesAt some point when you are tackling a search with blind hides, you will call a false alert. When trialing, this can mean the difference between earning a qualifying score or not. Thus, false alerts carry a ton of negative associations with Scent Work handlers. What causes handlers to call false alerts in the first place? What was their dog doing that made them call "Alert" in that given moment? Was there some sort of communication breakdown between