Scentwork Seminar by Mary Lehman of Essentially Fit K-9s

February 7-9, 2020

Idaho Falls, ID This seminar is for dogs that already know odor, i.e. it isn’t for those just getting started (we offer great classes for that).  Each participant will be allowed to take 1 dog through seminar, rather than multiples for those that trial more than 1 dog. 

Friday 1 to 5 pm

Saturday/Sunday 8 am to 5 pm

Objective:  Solidifying foundational skills teaching a solid indication or what others call ‘obedience to odor’, applying a solid indication to searching – single/multiple hides.  My purpose for this is to eliminate, or at least reduce, the number of false alerts. We will also teach search strategy, the way to optimize the time you have for each search: Containers/Interior/Exterior/Buried

I highly recommend people video their dogs working, no video of classroom talks, however, folks are welcome to take notes in class.

A LITTLE ABOUT MARY LEHMAN:

Mary has been working detection dogs, in Search & Rescue for over 25 years and has been a general dog enthusiast all her life. She’s had the pleasure of instructing SAR detection seminars for over 16 years as well as evaluating SAR detection teams during that same time period.

Mary is a SAR Instructor/Assistant Evaluator with the International Police Work Dog Association as well as an Evaluator for the Tri-State K9 SAR organization. Over the years, she has participated in AKC obedience, Field Trialing, Schutzhund/IPO, Mondioring, SAR and Scentwork/Nosework.

There are many scent work organizations in the U.S. to choose from. Mary has been a UKC Nosework Judge since 2013, an AKC Scent Work judge since August 2017 and became affiliated as a member and judge with North American Canine Scent Work in October of 2018.

Mary has successfully earned the following titles on her German Shepherd, Leighton since January of 2019: AKC – SWN, SIA, SEA; UKC – NN, AN, SN, MC, MI; NACSW – NW1, NW2

The seminar will be located at the 4H buildings just south of Sandy Downs