K9 Cognition Seminar - 2 days 10am-1600

Service Description

This clinic is for everyone and any discipline, if you are a professional looking to enhance how you select dogs, a Nose/Scent work handler, or simply a pet owner who loves learning about your dog, cognition testing will enhance your knowledge about the dog in front of you. These tests have proven to reduce failure rates in selection detection dogs for operational programs and also sped up the training process because the trainers are able to understand the requirements of each individual dog. These Cognition tests help you learn crucial information such as, is you dog strong in memory, is the dog a problem solver, how quick does it make inferences? Additional things these tests show are, does the dog easy follow gestural communication and what is your dogs laterality. ​ In conjunction with the normal K9 selection and evaluation steps agencies use, adding these K9 Brain games to an evaluation raises the percentage of dogs successfully picked to be working K9’s. Using these tests have proven to increase selection percentages of the right dogs for a training program. If you do Nose/Scent work, the information from these games will help you understand your dog better and how to set up training sessions that get the most out of your dog. Just knowing if your dog is right or left brain dominant can make a big difference on how you search an area. ​ These tests aren’t just for detection though, they would help you in all sports, agility, obedience, gundog work, the list is endless, to have a better understanding of how your dog learns is such a valuable asset.