Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Vehicle Searches Webinar AKC Scent Work With the use of video

With the use of video examples

take them on fun field trips so they can learn to sniff here

Keeping our dogs guessing as to just how many hides there may be in a search area can be a great way to keep the game fun

and a decision lies before you - to go on or off leash

and how you feel

Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Vehicle Searches Webinar AKC Scent Work With the use of videoAt some point when you are tackling a search with blind hides, you will call a false alert. When trialing, this can mean the difference between earning a qualifying score or not. Thus, false alerts carry a ton of negative associations with Scent Work handlers. What causes handlers to call false alerts in the first place? What was their dog doing that made them call "Alert" in that given moment? Was there some sort of communication breakdown between