In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw and Nathan Hall discuss:

• Nathan’s background and research interests in canine olfaction.
• The cocktail method of training detection.
• Psuedo scents and the research behind them.
• The ever-growing list of questions that comes up as you continue research and the further need for research in canine olfaction.
• Variations in your training samples.

 

Key Takeaways:

• We don’t know enough about the threshold of olfaction
• Train the dog to what you want them to find.
• Look at actual data. It is easy to see a success story, but the data will tell what’s actually happening.
• If you don’t set yourself to be wrong, then you’re not doing science.

 

"The dog is a dynamic system, they are constantly learning." —  Nathan Hall

 

Contact Nathan:

Bio: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/afs/people/nathan-hall/

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-hall-78306516/

 

Get Jerry's book Controlled Aggression on Amazon.com  

 

Contact Jerry:

Website: controlledaggressionpodcast.com

Tarheel Canine Training:  www.tarheelcanine.com

Youtube:  tarheelcanine

Twitter: @tarheelcanine

Instagram: @tarheelk9

Facebook: TarheelCanineTraining

Protection Sports Website:  psak9.org

Patreon:   patreon.com/controlledaggression

 

 

Train Hard, train smart, be safe.  

 

 

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

 

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