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Ford K9
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This Ford K9 channel we cover various aspects of Detection Dog training... Ranging from Professional detection dog work to those who compete in sports like Nosework and Scentwork.
2 guys talking about the OGs of the Dog World
Cameron Ford sits down with Dr. Stuart Hilliard to discuss their experiences in the dog training world. They reminisce about their early days in the Air Force and how they were inspired by Dr. Hilliard's book on Schutzhund training. They also talk about their mentors, including Godfrey Dildei and Bob Gailey, and the impact they had on their training methods. The conversation covers topics such as the importance of removing conflict in dog training, the use of hoses as training tools, and the influence of German Shepherd dogs and Belgian Malinois in their training journeys. Dr. Hilliard discusses his introduction to Malinois dogs and his involvement in importing and training them. He credits Helmut Riser for teaching him the theoretical structure of dog training and changing the language of dog training in English.
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Elevated Hides in Scenario based Training
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This K9 team successfully completed my detection scenario station at the Colorado K9 Conference. In this evolution, the team conducted a single-blind search, knowing only that they had two rooms to search without any information about the presence of hides. In one of the rooms, there was a narcotics hide weighing about half a pound, placed in the ceiling roughly 10 feet above the ground. As dem...
Learn your dog better (Scenario Based training)
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Here is another jump out search with K9 Ammo. This is his 4th Scenario based search. This is a single blind search (meaning I do not know what or where anything is). 🔫Shell casings were in the area for 12 hours before we conducted the search. ✅Location is an active intersection in an industrial park just down from a homeless encampment which provides plenty of distractions to work through. Adde...
Make sure you READ your DOG
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Here is a video where I demonstrate working with my dogs, emphasizing the importance of understanding and reading your detection dog. It's crucial to recognize what is predictable, repeatable, and reliable in your dog's behavior when responding to odors versus distractions. The more familiar you are with your dog's detection nuances, the more confident and effective your team will become. More ...
#106 K9s Talking Scents Podcast "How does the dog feel about that" with Dr. Stewart Hilliard
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Summary In this episode, Cameron Ford sits down with Dr. Stuart Hilliard to discuss their experiences in the dog training world. Dr. Hilliard discusses the importance of looking at the scientific data and conclusions without prejudice or bias when it comes to dog training. He emphasizes the need to understand the science of aversive control and communicate what is known to practical dog trainer...
Don’t Forget to pay attention to your dog.
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🛑“Don’t forget to pay attention to your dog” …. This video shows when I missed my dog acknowledging odor as I am focused on the search area. It’s always good to learn lessons. #detectiondogs #nosework #policek9 #scentdetection #snifferdogs #detectiondogtips #fordk9
Making Training and Reality look similar
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In this Video I share a search I do with my dog Ammo. This is only his 3rd scenario based search and this is a BLANK run. My main goal was exposure to the operation conditions he will face on call outs. This search also showed me his behaviors on unique smells in this kind of area and it gives me valuable experience in reading him in a non target environment. To learn more about this and all th...
Detection Dog Tech Vacuum... The Getxent Rasco
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Getxent Remote Air Sampling for Canine Olfaction is a cutting-edge technology that allows extremely fast detection of Explosives, Narcotics but also Bed Bugs and many other substances and chemicals. Getxent RASCO system is an innovative and affordable solution for collecting and concentrating odors from large volumes. The patented Getxent tube, combined with a specially designed accessory for D...
#105 K9s Talking Scents Podcast Bio Detection Dogs with Lale Aksu
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Laleh Aksu, a trainer of C. difficile detection dogs, discusses the importance of using dogs to search for C. diff in hospital environments. C. difficile is a bacteria that can cause severe diarrhea and is a hospital-acquired infection. The dogs are trained to detect the presence of C. diff in the environment, such as on surfaces and in the air. Laleh explains the training process, the differen...
#104 Belief is the Death of Reason with Dr. Tiedemann and Dr. Nathan Hall
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In this episode, Dr. Nathan Hall and Dr. Paola Tiedemann discuss their research on canine detection applications and the use of olfactometers. They explain that olfactometers are scientific instruments used to provide measured and standardized odors to animals. The researchers have been working on miniaturizing olfactometers and making them more rugged for various applications. They also discus...
IMPORTANT K9 Firearm Detection
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Dr. Paola Tiedemann Forensic Chemist and professor at Texas Tech University and Dr. Nathan Hall Associate Professor of K9 Olfaction at Texas Tech and Cameron Ford of Ford K9 discuss the research on firearms detection, including the significance of gunshot residue (GSR) and the volume of odor. We discuss the challenges of training dogs on different concentrations of odor and the importance of tr...
Pros and Cons of Pairing and Delayed Conditioning in Detection and Nosework Dogs
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This video features Cameron Ford, Michael Ellis, and Natalie Morris engaging in an open-minded discussion about the two most common methods used to teach dogs detection work. As trainers, it's crucial that we continuously evolve and enhance our skills in training both dogs and their handlers. This often requires reflecting on our practices and conversing with peers who may offer different persp...
Introduction of variable reinforcement schedule for a seasoned Detection dog
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Question: How difficult would it be to introduce Variable Reward to a detection dog who has always been rewarded for each find? #Detectiondogs #nosework #scentwork #workingdogs #variblerewardsystem #fordk9 #michaelellis
#103 "it's NOT Pseudo with Gregory Herin of Getxent
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#103 "it's NOT Pseudo with Gregory Herin of Getxent
#102 K9s Talking Scents "Tracking Predators" with Wesley Visscher
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#102 K9s Talking Scents "Tracking Predators" with Wesley Visscher
#101 Talking with GOATs Michael Ellis and Ivan Balbanov
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#101 Talking with GOATs Michael Ellis and Ivan Balbanov
#100 Does my Detection Dog have ADHD with Dr. Melanie Uhde
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#100 Does my Detection Dog have ADHD with Dr. Melanie Uhde
#99 Just Communicate with Dr. Simon Gadbois
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#99 Just Communicate with Dr. Simon Gadbois
Did he get away with it? Making Training like Reality.
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Did he get away with it? Making Training like Reality.
#98 K9s Talking Scents Podcast Training vs Reality and Marijuana vs Hemp with Steven Antommarchi
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#98 K9s Talking Scents Podcast Training vs Reality and Marijuana vs Hemp with Steven Antommarchi
#97 K9s Talking Scents "Where is my Whiskey and Tobacco" with Stu Phillips
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#97 K9s Talking Scents "Where is my Whiskey and Tobacco" with Stu Phillips
#96 K9s Talking Scents "Misinformed Odor Clown"
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#96 K9s Talking Scents "Misinformed Odor Clown"
K9 Panic... My State legalized Marijuana
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K9 Panic... My State legalized Marijuana
#95 K9s Talking Scents Podcast "The Reality of Search and Rescue" with Tim Houweling
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#95 K9s Talking Scents Podcast "The Reality of Search and Rescue" with Tim Houweling
#94 K9s Talking Scents Podcast Dingle Days Detection with Geryah Dingle
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#94 K9s Talking Scents Podcast Dingle Days Detection with Geryah Dingle
Mastering your Material with Michael Ellis
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Mastering your Material with Michael Ellis
#93 K9s Talking Scents "Women in Police K9 with Sgt. Jay Lilley
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#93 K9s Talking Scents "Women in Police K9 with Sgt. Jay Lilley
Gotta love some good dog training lore
Boy! This is going back. Mike of Dog Sports Magazine as well as as Dog World.
Hi Stewart, Mr. French Ring
"2 guys" that are pretty good at training dogs lol
Excellent - surface area I was aware of, however, how long the hide should be out before the dog searches was confussing. I had been varing it, sometimes only a minute or two and other times up to 15 or 20 minutes. Thanks to this video, I know that wasn't a bad thing to do! LOVE your videos, webinars and course material available on Ford K9 site - thank you again for all the great resources!
Great Video like always , please keep them coming 👌🏽😀
I like the search intensity of this dog. our team here in the Philippines also makes our training the same as what is happening in real life. in this kind of training the handler can exercise his decision making and reading of the dog. Also techniques can be developed on how to address a situation.
Elo sir am both professional security guard and dog handler for now am in Somalia but I want job 🙏
Very helpful!
Amazing dog, fantastic to watch the team working, thank you for sharing!
Thank you for this podcast. I am currently training with SWDI through their on-line courses and Jens Franks instruction is in-depth and well explained, really such an amazing trainer - wonderful to see him in a North American podcast. Documenting training and planning before training changes everything - and this has been done by other and promoted by others (Simon Prins for instance). It puts the science into training and makes things so logical. It allows you to see what works and what dosen't work with the specific dog and it enables the trainer to see what doesn't work, and how to approach it differently for the dog in front of you instead of wasting time trying things that don't work for that dog - less frustration for both the dog and the trainer. Hopefully this podcast will encourage people to look more at the work being done in Europe with operant conditioning and a scientific approach to training dogs, rather the popular approach of specific "methods" by only a few well known or well advertised trainers.
A control test would take the legal defense from unlawful detection . "" Cause the dogs nose is so good it could have been in vehicle just not detectable now"" "
It's a k9s job to please his handler period .
Hey, I love the video! Quick question If you put out a high hide and your dog is on odor but doesn't sit, which is the final indication, and instead goes into proprioception, would you reward him since, in his mind, he's sitting, or would you assist with a SIT command?
@@Echoshadowflame obviously Cameron knows more than me, but I pay it. My thinking is I'm getting the behavior I'm looking for (COB to target odor) which is more important than the TFR. I found they are more likely to give you a TFR quicker, if they've been rewarded for COB. It's just important to know, they're truly in odor when you pay, and not guessing. IMO
@@Echoshadowflame I don’t require the sit or (trained final response) when first teaching elevated or inaccessible hides. I reward the effort, acknowledgement and persistence of the dog towards the odor. Then, as the dog becomes more proficient at this type of task, then I could require the train to final response if I wish to do so. But again in the beginning, we must reward and acknowledge the effort and acknowledgment of the odor…. I want the dog to understand. The odor is the most important part not the sit or TFR.
@@FordK9 Hey back to my question If the dog is already fully trained, knows his final response, and is 10-foot certified, would you reward the dog on proprioception, or would you assist with a sit? Obviously, we don’t want the dogs to be handler-dependent, but I was having this conversation with another trainer and he said to help with a sit However, if the dog thinks he's sitting, why not reward him when he’s in proprioception? And in the dogs head he did everything by himself so it’s in his favor
@@Echoshadowflame my answer is regardless of the phase of the training. The dog is in many cases elevated hides are new even for experience dogs, especially when compared to the number of hides they have that are head level or they are able to get close to it so again, my answer is regardless of the stage of training if the dog does not have experience with elevator or in experience, that is my answer yes, I am rewarding for them orienting and actively going towards the odor
@@Echoshadowflame and most cases I don’t prefer to communicate to the dog to sit unless there is some type of need to I want to be as irrelevant in the search as possible. I help as little as possible and as much as necessary.
Love this dog ❤
Colorado... lords of the flexi
This should 100 percent be a regular feature, real story time feel to it, great scene and setting
Thank you, dog is a joy to watch.
Really nice coverage! I think he's got it! LOL The reward! Is the reward as important as the "play" time with handler? Does the play time increase the rewards value?
When's the first hour going up I'm Interested to hear about the men of times past bye, back in the days where trainers had to work out issues and techniques without the TH-cam
I don't understand the purpose of having him find an odor....what odor are is he being trained to find?
@@briansands8453 he is a professional Detection dog that locates firearms or gunshot residue
@@FordK9 oh, ok!👍
Glad I found this channel. I'm going to want to do an interview with you after I digest some of these episodes. What I've been watching has been absolutely awesome.
Oh Joe did u not know...... Some real juice on here Amazing insight and information on nose realate stuff and some great podcasts I'd ur into nuts and bolts kinda stuff One of my favourite episodes has to be the jam Session listening to master trainers talk amongst them selves, pure gold Forest Mickie episode The podcast with grassroots k9 Mike
@@CharlieTheCaneCorsonah I didnt
Question about risk of false alert in this long searches: Would it be helpful in training-scenarios to check the area for the search-item by the handler before give the dog a reward? I think of simon prins result tracker method or would this not work for this kind of training scenario? For me it was hard to see Elmos indication in the second find.. Thank you 😊
Were you ever thinking about ending the deployment without Ammo finding the second stim because of such a long search and only changes in behaviour? What do you weigh up when deploying a dog in an area for a long time/multiple times and risking the dog giving a false response because you are almost telling the dog there must be something here because you have deployed in that same area/had such a long deployment without a find or do you just work scenarios like that into your training?
@@miketastic82 yes we do numerous blank searches because this is also the reality of real deployment. So that prepares a dog for extended periods of searching. In addition to this I take into consideration the information from the the deployment briefing which tells me how much information in regards to the possibility of shell casings or a firearm in the area exists if they are kind of reaching and hoping that there’s something there and just want the dog to do the work for them many times I can read pretty quickly there’s nothing there. When there is more credible information, such as witnesses seeing firearms discharged for a certain area then I know the probability is higher and we must work the area as thoroughly as possible, which would definitely mean there are breaks and evaluating how to approach or dissect the search area. So in training, I make sure I show the dog all of these various potentials and prepare them as best I can for the probability of extended searches, searches with breaks and searches with we keep working it as best we can my dog understands. It gets rewarded for searching randomly and it gets rewarded for finding Target odor… this helps alleviate potential of false indications because the dog doesn’t have to be finding something in order to get a reward
@@FordK9 thank you for that thorough explanation. Greatly appreciated. Makes all the sense now. 🙏
Can you do some more reality based scenarios? As a private handler I really struggle finding sites sometimes! I am a member of your website, would really like to see more videos of building search as well.
@@EDDK9JOKER absolutely we have lots more coming out with both my dogs :-)
I trained tracking with Steve White decades ago ! Haven’t heard his name dropped in decades!
Are there any videos out there on the actual daily life of a Contractor and how to get into the field? (I’m going to school next year at AK9i) but I want to know what life after school will look like… how to get a job, what a resume should look like when applying at one of the big companies like 3DK9, Global, Merrill ect... Only thing I can find is “daily life of a police K9 handler” any help would be greatly appreciated by anyone.
The death of explanation he goes into is eye opening I could listen to you to speak for 20 hours I have So many questions...........
Great show, doc is a untapped well of knowledge the Internet needs this
Loved this conversation! I will listen to this many times to absorb all the "gems" from both of you!
What a great podcast/interview! Great questions Cameron! And Laleh is a humble, brilliant trainer/handler! And yes! we never stop learning! Thank you Cameron for bringing a variety of topics and wonderful people to the community!
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!!!
I really hope they do the Kynology seminar in some other parts of the country. I'm a dog trainer in the Midwest and have been wanting to attend, but travel to CA requires a lot of time off of work and is generally a more expensive place to travel.
Oh shit can ur the man getting Dr hilliard on the show When it comes to dog people Ellis Balabanov Hiliard 3 of my favourite to hear talk
Its summertime no ac in the car they told me i could sit in the back of the car on the curb . And then the k9 showed up .
Or teach them by command to “find more” no reward
GReat thank you for sharing.
0:50 it looks like he is caught in converging odor. 1:12 he starts showing elevated behavior. My guess is that he disturbed the source as he walked through at 0:50 You stepped in, and applied spatial pressure pushing him off that odor and flinging it toward the wall/counter lip, making it difficult to source. My dog knows she wont get paid at an old hide, but sometimes she will return to one to parse out which molecules belong to which hides in a converging odor puzzle. We are always learning something from our dogs in detection work! Thank you for filming so we can all benefit from your learning!
This just happened to me the other night. We were navigating a tight space and I was trying to avoid banging my knees into the concrete and inadvertently got in the way of the hide because I didn't know where it was.
Excellent example.........do not spend too much time if your dog is not giving you a solid indication of TFR. Easy to talk a dog into a false TFR. That was a great example of how to handle that situation/interest in that area.
Exactly my question as my dog went to her first trial this past week and that's exactly what happened. She lost a point for passing the ordour, did come right back to it and alert - but still had left it. She is 15 months and started level only - we are still working on fundamentals of course, but this really helps - thank you!
As a Sport scent person, I wouldn't necessarily use something like this - but such amazing technology! The entire Getxent system is super cool - and so useful! Thanks
@@lauralbriar lol … Yep, not applicable for sport people :-)
So in class we were taught if the dog returns to the one she already got, acknowledge with a good girl but don't make it to big and say search again. My dog will only go back to the first hide one time, once I acknowledge she hit it but DON'T pay her. She will continue searching but not indicate again on that hide. Is that normally ok? Should I change how we do that? And if so, why? We have been doing scent detection for almost a year now.
@@erinheathermcintyre5063 that is definitely a sound approach. One of the best solutions is the ability to control our outcomes as best as possible so that technique you described is absolutely one that I use as well. In addition, I also try to set up myself for avoiding those things if I can. In the video he goes back. I simply mark him, I don’t pay him again and hook him up on leash and move on.
@@FordK9 fantastic. Thank you
A Dog Dyson! This tech has been around a while-used something very similar after 9/11 for explosives. It worked in a small target area, but needed cleaned and re-calibrated a lot. Also tested out the Scent Transfer Unit -STU100 (Tolhurst) for a 3 month period and found it inconsistent. This design looks better.
Great video and so true. Many beginning trainers don’t understand this axiom!
I teach my dogs that the mark (click, Yes, whistle) ends the behavior. They don't have to maintain criteria after the mark. Do you feel this is an issue?
@@sodawild that is the exact definition of a terminal bridge (aka) Conditioned Reinforcer… once signal happens behavior ends and reward delivered even if delayed due to distance to location of reward etc.
@@FordK9 yes, agree. But the take away from this video is that the dog should maintain alert response even after the mark and should wait there for reward. I'm not seeing issues with my dog breaking the response after I mark. Early in train I would try to be close to the dog when I marked so the reward would follow quickly. Now that the dog understands the game I don't need to be close. She will come to me for reward or meet me as I come to her. Works for us.
@@sodawild I think the misunderstanding that you’re having is we’re not saying the word alert as a marker. The word alert is for the handler to notify the judge. They found the odor but many do not use this as a marker word or a terminal bridge release. So what we are meaning is if you say alert and the dog breaks away prior to you giving your terminal marker whatever word you use yes click, etc. the dog needs to go back until released if it were to break away when you said the word alert, the dog needs to maintain its position until released by the Terminal bridge if that’s what you’re using
Could you take an air sample from Alchol(vodka) ?
You can take an air sample off anything that gives off VOCs
Now that is super cool!
It was fun doing this recordning, even if Flo looks so serious 🤘
There are many trainers that are using multiple markers which give the dog information about where, how, and what type of reward they are receiving. Not using just a clicker.
Yes, absolutely, but in Detection, I have not seen the use of multiple markers used as commonly as other training disciplines or programs. It is growing, but Detection has seem to be slower at excepting the use of markers again as compared to other train disciplines.
Ok I listened to this one on my roadtrip. What interested me most and also showed a huge flaw in my thinking about bed bug detection is being careful to only train for live bed bugs not feces or dead ones. If someone has a place treated they only want to know if live ones remain anywhere. Loved this episode. So much to take in. Very interesting. I'd like to have asked why he doesn't have booties on to protect feet in these places. 🇨🇦🐾