K9 Detection Collaborative

Coming off three weeks of teaching, training, and certifications, Stacy, Robin, and Crystal discuss training your dog with a purpose, emphasizing the importance of advocating for your dog and knowing ...

23 Aug 202257min

Today, Stacy, Robin, and Crystal sit down to reflect on their five-day experience teaching at Distraction Camp 2022. Describing the camp as an opportunity to learn how to train your dog, they break ...

16 Aug 202256min

Today, Stacy, Robin, and Crystal continue to answer questions from their roundtable. They begin responding to the question, Does everybody have to say ‘alert’ in nosework? While there are some variati...

9 Aug 202252min

Today, Stacy, Robin, and Crystal discuss questions from their roundtable that they were unable to answer. They begin comparing their dogs’ workdays with their rest days, sharing anecdotes around what ...

2 Aug 202257min

Today, Stacy, Robin, and Crystal sit down to share their personal stories about their dogs. Sometimes, our dogs can surprise us with what they are capable of doing, sometimes even before we’ve train...

26 Jul 202259min

Today, Robin, Stacy and Crystal discuss how to use blank sessions to your advantage. Blank areas, while they can be anxiety-inducing, can be a way for handlers to evaluate their dog’s behavior, and in...

19 Jul 20221h 5min

Today, Stacy, Robin, and Crystal discuss what changes to expect as your puppy enters adolescence. Lasting between the ages of 18 months and two years, dogs in their “teenage” years will seem to forg...

12 Jul 20221h 1min

Today, Stacy, Robin, and Crystal reflect on the reality that, as K9 handlers, our expectations don’t often play out in the long term quite as we expect them to. Listen in as our hosts talk about the...

5 Jul 20221h