Description
Upper Snake River Valley Dog Training Club
Is excited to sponsor:
Scent & Detection
November 18, 19, & 20, 2022
Bonneville County Fairgrounds, Idaho Falls, ID
Facilitated by: Natalie Morris & Cameron Ford
In this seminar we cover how to maintain your dog and go even further to challenge you and the dog to get fully prepared to meet the new higher levels of scrutiny, competition and search deployments dog teams face today. We also address common problems that teams face as detection searches become more complicated and difficult. We will push you in searches that are single blind as well as maybe “all clear” This seminar is for ALL DETECTION DOGS from professionals Police/Security K9, Search and Rescue, Conservation K9 to all Sport detection dogs. If you do detection this seminar is for you!! Teams must be at the intermediate to advanced levels.
Natalie Morris is a trainer and manager at Ford K9, where she helps oversee Fordk9’s daily operations such as puppy and adult development and selection, Sport Detection classes and coaching, as well as local classes and education for the sport of Scent work. Natalie has been training dogs and teaching owners in the Las Vegas Valley for 10 years, teaching hundreds of puppy and adult classes as well as assisting owners in behavioral modification plans and improving the bond between both ends of the leash. In 2011 Natalie was drawn to the world of K9 olfaction and detection through the sport of K9 Scent Work, when she began training and trialing her personal dogs for the sport. Over the years, after training and trialing multiple dogs through the higher levels of the sport and continuously being humbled and amazed at her canine partners’ olfaction ability, it became clear that this is what she wanted to spend all of her time doing. Natalie joined the FordK9 team in early 2021 to pursue her passion for training dogs and teaching handlers how to develop the skills needed to be at the top of their game, whether training for the sport of scent detection or professional handling. In her free time Natalie continues to trial and compete in scent work with her personal dogs, including a young Border Collie named Gus who will be competing for the first time in the fall of 2021!
Cameron Ford has been in K-9 for 27 years. First serving the U.S. Air Force as a Military Working Dog Handler and trainer. Cameron is one of very few Americans ever to attend the German Polizei working dog school in Eckenbach Germany. Cameron also visited and trained at the Dutch Politie Scent Dog School in Nunspeet Holland. Police officer in FL and TX, working as a Police Officer, SWAT officer and K9 Trainer in FL then in Texas as Police Officer K-9 handler and SWAT operator. In recent years worked in the Government Contractor field overseeing training and deployment of over 300 K-9 teams in the middle east. Sr. Instructor / MultiPurpose Canine for Naval Special Warfare Group 1 (SEAL Teams 1,3,5 and 7). Cameron is currently a CA POST K-9 Team Evaluator NPCA Certifying official in (Detection and Patrol) CNCA Evaluator (Detection and Patrol) DrugBeat Detection K9 Evaluator and NACSW Judge. In addition, currently working with Duke University on canine cognition as it relates to patrol and detection dogs. Also, a Researcher with Texas Tech University Canine Olfaction and Forensic Laboratories. Board member of the American Association of Forensic Science (Canine and Sensors committee) and Consulting Expert for NESDCA (National Entomology Scent Detection Canine Association). Currently, Owner and K9 Instructor for Ford K9 LLC based in Las Vegas Nevada and Host of the hit Podcast “K9s Talking Scents”
Working Spot:
- Active USRVDTC Club Members $150.00
- Inactive USRVDTC Club Members $200.00
- Non-club Members $350.00
- Auditing Spot:
- Active USRVDTC Club Members $75.00
- Inactive USRVDTC Club Members $100.00
- Non-club Members $175.00
