Interactive Dog training Seminar: SCENT WORK & THE POSITIVE TRAINED RETRIEVE – May 4th and 5th 2019

Hosted by: Moonwalkers Dog Training – 500 Huntington Ave. Emsworth, PA 15202

Pricing: Audit- (lecture and observation)- $85/day or $160/both days Working- (Bring your dog for hands on coaching with the experts)  -Add $65/working day or $120/ Working both days.

Note: To set our hands-on teams up for success we suggest that working dogs: be comfortable training as well as resting in an environment full of people and other dogs. have enough retrieve drive to be able to work in a seminar environment (Instructions can be sent to those who feel they would benefit from doing some prep work on establishing drive.)

Day 1- Saturday, May 4th – Retrieving

9am- 12pm – Retrieving Lecture

• History of Training Methods & Comparison of Methodologies (natural, forced fetching, modern positive concepts)

• Techniques for building drive and motivation

• Play-based methods for teaching a strong retrieve

• Practical applications in the field

• How retrieving games can help with behavior modification

12pm-1pm– Lunch (provided)

1pm-5pm– Hands-On Work

• Working teams will practice and learn directly from Fetchmasters’ experts Thomas Aaron CPDT-KA and Linda Aaron CPDT-KA

Day 2- Sunday, May 5th – Scentwork

9am-12pm– Scent Work Lecture

• Intro to scent work and its practical field applications (hunting, tracking, scent detection, shed hunting etc)

• Discussion of how scent interacts with the environment and how dogs adapt to these conditions, discuss traits that make a phenomenal scent worker

• Building drive and motivation for the target scent

• Reinforcement strategies: The best methods for rewarding successful detection

• Developing Air and Ground Scenting Capabilities

• Primer on outdoor tracking

12pm-1pm– Lunch (provided)

1pm-5pm– Hands on work

• Working teams will practice and learn directly from Fetchmasters’ experts Thomas Aaron CPDT-KA and Linda Aaron CPDT-KA