“The Low Down on High Hides”

Saturday, 7/12/25

9am-4:30pm

When and where should you call a high hide? How precise should you require our dog to be in alerting? Where do you pay? Some conventional wisdom is to pay at the highest concentration of odor and call it a day. But this makes no practical sense. First, in the real-life hunting context, the hunting dog does not alert on the tree next to where the raccoon or squirrel is located just because that is where they encounter the highest concentration of odor. That wouldn’t be terribly helpful to the hunter, would it? Second, rewarding at the highest concentration of odor is really rewarding fringing because the dog has not indicated where the hide is actually located. But how do we teach our dogs to finish the math problem to use the highest concentration of odor to calculate and communicate to us where the hide is? Tony will break it down for us in the challenging Clinic.

“Conquering Converging Odor and Close Proximity Hides!”

Sunday, 7/13/25

9am-4:30pm

Wow! Searches in both NACSW and AKC are getting tougher with complex converging and close proximity hides! (Spoiler Alert: close proximity does NOT always mean converging and vice versa.) How do we teach our dogs to solve converging odor problems? Can we observe our dogs to tell when they are in converging odor? How do we teach our dogs to find close proximity hides one after the other, rather than having to range out and return to the area to find the second (or third) hide? Tony will demystify all of this and more in “Conquering Converging Odor and Close Proximity Hides.” This full day workshop will give you the tools to teach your dog to solve these types of problems and will hone your observation skills so you can recognize when converging odor and/or close proximity hides are present.