Comprehensive Curriculum

Structured foundation work for 12 weeks

Expert Instruction

Led by experienced instructors in scent detection

Practical Application

Hands-on training for recreation and sport

About the Course

Join our Scent Detection Foundations INSTRUCTOR Course to learn the art of scent detection for pet dogs. You'll receive expert guidance and hands-on training to build a strong foundation before advancing to component work. Enroll now!

Meet Your Expert Instructor

I'm Alexandra Butler, and I'm thrilled to share my expertise in scent detection with you. With years of experience in training dogs for detection work, I aim to empower you and to excel in this exciting field. Let's embark on this journey together!

Curriculum

10 Chapters · 132 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction

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      Introduction

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    Preparing for your classes

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      Equipment

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      Which odour to use

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      Locations

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      Class sizes

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      Clean and dirty search areas

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      Duration of classes

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      Structure of classes

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      Foundations & Components

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      Tests and trials

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      Creating Odour soaks

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      Deciding on size of soaks

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      Changing odour source sizes

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      Opening your classes

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      Opening your classes mini immersion

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      What to give clients at end

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      Continuation classes

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    The Dog and the Odour

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      How the Dog uses the Odour

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      Scent Cones

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      Isolated video of dog working scent cone

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      Knocking Odour

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      Tracing Odour

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      Body language

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      Nose Blind

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      Fatigue

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      Aversion to odour

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      Fitness for scentwork

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      Different scentwork disciplines

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    The Dogs Nose

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      Introduction

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      How the dogs nose is structured

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      Sniffing

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      The Jacobson Organ

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      The Olfactory Epithelium

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      The Olfactory cells

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      Cilia

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      The Ethmoid Bone

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      Bowman’s Gland

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      Comparison to humans

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      Alternating

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      Odour Issues

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      Chemicals

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      Adaptive Behaviour

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    How Scent Behaves

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      What is the Difference between Scent & Odour

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      How is Odour Created

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      How odour moves

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      Contamination

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      Contamination pt2

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      Residual Odour

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      Keeping a clean training area

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      Different odours

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      Time scales

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    Practical Exercises - Foundations

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      Welcome

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      Structuring your classes

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      Structuring your exercises

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      Explaining to clients about odour

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      Coaching your clients

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      Initial exercise - The marker system

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      Exercise 1 - Scent ID

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      Exercise 1 - Scent ID Practical

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      Exercise 1 - Scent ID with Medusa

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      Exercise 1 - Scent ID with Koios

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      Exercise 2 - Scent ID pt2

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      Exercise 2 - Scent ID pt2 Practical

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      Exercise 2 - Scent ID pt2 with Medusa

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      Exercise 2 - Scent ID pt2 with Koios

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      Exercise 3 - Scent Decision

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      Exercise 3 - Scent Choice Practical

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      Exercise 3 - Scent Decision with Medusa

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      Exercise 4 - Line up search, small

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      Exercise 4 - Line up search, small. Practical

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      Exercise 4 - Line up search, Small. With Medusa

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      Exercise 5 - The Indication

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      Exercise 5 - The Indication. The Freeze

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      Exercise 6 - Starting to put the Indication into practice

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      Exercise 7 - Line up search. Longer

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      Exercise 7 - Longer Line up Explained with equipment

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      Exercise 7 - Longer line up practical

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      Exercise 7 - Longer line up practical with Medusa

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      Exercise 8 - Line up search with Indication

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      Soak Containers

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      Exercise 9 - Line up search. Working away from equipment

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      Exercise 9 - Line up search. Working away from equipment Practical

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      Exercise 10 - Line up search. Off equipment

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      Exercise 10 - Line up search. Off equipment Practical

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      Exercise 11 - Line up search. Indication off equipment

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      Exercise 11 - Line up search. Indication off equipment practical

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      Exercise 11 - Line up search. Indication off equipment practical 2

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      Exercise 12 - Square pattern search on equipment

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      Exercise 12 - Square pattern searching on equipment practical

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      Exercise 13 - Square pattern search. off equipment

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      Exercise 13 - Square pattern search. off equipment. Practical

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      Exercise 14 - Square pattern search. Indication

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      Exercise 14 - Square search pattern. Indication practical

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      Exercise 15 - Changing Handling

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      Exercise 16 - Height Search Pattern. On Equipment

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      Exercise 16 - Height Search pattern. On equipment practical

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      Exercise 17 - Height Search Pattern. Off Equipment

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      Exercise 17 - Height Search pattern. Off equipment practical

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      Exercise 18 - Height search pattern. Indication

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      Exercise 18 - Height search pattern. Indication Practical

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      Exercise 19 - Zig Zag Search pattern. on equipment

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      Exercise 20 - Bringing learning together in a room search

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      Exercise 21 - Blind searches and body language

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      Trouble shooting preparing for Foundations plus

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      PDF for exercises

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    Practical Exercises - Foundations Plus

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      Welcome

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      Exercise 1 - Indication from a distance pt1

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      Exercise 2 - Indication at a distance pt2

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      Exercise 3 - Introducing further odours

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      Exercise 4 - Multiple hides & "Search on" cue

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      Exercise 5 - Multiple Hides off equipment

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      Exercise 6 - Multiple odour search

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      Exercise 7 - Dedication to Odour 1

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      Exercise 7 - Dedication to odour Practical

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      Exercise 8 - Dedication to odour 1 line up

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      Exercise 9 - Dedication to odour 1 off equipment

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      Exercise 10 - Dedication to odour 2

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      Exercise 10 - Dedication to odour 2 practical

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      Exercise 11 - Searching out of odour

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      Exercise 12 - Searching out of odour off equipment

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      Exercise 13 - Blanks in search Equipment

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      Exercise 14 - Blanks in search. off equipment

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      Exercise 15 - Tramline searching on equipment

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      Exercise 16 - Tramline searching off equipment

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      Trial prep and problem solving

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      PDFs

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    Advertising classes

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      How to advertise your classes

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    Assessment

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      Assessment

  10. 10

    Using Scentwork for behavioural cases

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      Introduction

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      How scent work effects the dog

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      How scent work effects the owners

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      Including scentwork into a behavioural plan

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