If the journey with your dog in this sport is the priority, success can fall into place for any team. And Caroline Oldham puts a lot of effort into focusing on the journey. And doing so helps both the dog and handler achieve their goals.
She also talks about her crate-to-crate ritual and why she does it, what your dog's breed group tells you about how they search, building handler grit, and a start line tip she thinks will make a difference for most teams.
What We Talk About
Caroline's pack, Timber the Welsh Springer, Kate the Malinois who made her a planner, and Rebarre the yellow lab she planned a year before she got her
What training a Malinois teaches you that no other breed will
Breed groups and what they tell you about how your dog searches
The dog is always learning whether or not you're teaching, and what Caroline did with that idea the first hour she had Rebarre
Your dog is perceiving odor, not just smelling it, and why that reframe changes how you handle
The toy basket mistake and why all good things should come from you
Clarity, no gray days, black and white rules that hold even when you don't feel like training
The one treat that is only for the discovery of odor
Crate to crate, what the ritual looks like from the hotel to the search area to the car ride home
What success looked like with the first dog and what it looks like now
Two stories about what it looks like to drive home from a trial and call it a success even when you don't do as well as you wanted
Handler grit and what it takes to keep your rituals in place when everything is falling apart
The self-care coach on her training team and why the handler is half the partnership
Seven questions with Caroline, including her signature distractor, the start line tip she thinks will make a difference for most teams, and what her dog would say about her in one word
Alert! Scent Work is a podcast for competitors, the parking lot conversations you'd never get to have at a trial, with the judges and community members you wish you had more time with.
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