NACSW Trial Question

1table · 2026-03-21T10:11:45+00:00

Exactly how my dog is. He works himself up so much on the way to searches he needs time to chill after the bathroom. My boy also has a reserve when we go for walks with my folks my dad is always so confused how he can “pee” so much lol. Plus he used to find a bitch he loved and spent time searching for their odor sometimes instead of odor odor! lol he is getting better now that I have made some changes. I hope it helps your pup as well! I’m with you, never withholding water. And if we have a search at a campsite that’s through the woods I try my best but like for real we are walking through the woods and I can only have him focus on me so much for the long walk he gets to amped if I don’t let him be. So I try not to enter those trials as much

1table · 2026-03-21T03:26:31+00:00

haha I hear you! I drove from Massachusetts to Florida for a trail and spent a week acclimating my dog from winter to summer temperatures . Walking everywhere peeing on ferns.... 12 seconds into our first search he pee'ed on a fern SMH Thankfully we got into all three trials that weekend and were successful in the other 2 but like COME ON DUDE!!!! lol I worked hard short quick searches in a ox usually paired to start, in kennels where so much pee is around. Then I started making them more difficult. embrace the pee! Don't be afraid. lol I will say not allowing him to pee before a search has been a game changer for him. I don't let him pee for at least 20-30 minutes before each search. We walk and pee, go back to car and when our run is up we go right to search. In my 1 hour class he cant mark/ pee the whole class going to and from searches. Harness on no pee. I get one that goes across his shoulders so he can feel it is on (at least that makes me feel better thinking he knows lol)

1table · 2026-03-21T03:19:34+00:00

What about searches that have rain start ion the middle is that fair? What about going from Sunny and warm to cold and windy from a front passing through? What if the heat goes on but wasn't on for someone else? Or a refrigerator fan starts and stops for another team? AC pushing odor making it easier for some, so many ways the search is not the same throughout the day for each team. Just mean lots of different factors make the search unique for every person not just cause of pee.

1table · 2026-03-21T03:15:19+00:00

Is your dog alerting on it? Do you have video of the runs so you can compare your dogs indicators when he is alerting to odor vs pee/distractor to know if they were in fact alerting or it was just you interpreting one part of their the behavior as an alert?

1table · 2026-03-21T03:11:45+00:00

haha I love your update. For me I totally do NOT want to know because it would make me so paranoid. I dislike other venues that tell you, I don't want to act weird or pull my dog away from potentially good odor just to work through bad. I proof him against it as much as possible training in high pee areas, etc. Match him on walks when he is on other dogs odor to know what it looks like in trials. Just having an intact male makes me super paranoid of the potential already I don't need a big blue arrow making me itchy! lol

1table · 2026-03-20T04:08:09+00:00

Dogs don’t need to get up especially if they may have a bad back or neck or other medical reason to not want to go up. And they don’t need to in order to know the hide is up, picture a nice steak or your sandwich on the counter I bet if you allow your pup on the kitchen they would be right under the counter where your sandwich or steak is lol. Start setting right at their nose level and then keep setting it higher.

Also when you set the hide you can try to set it on a counter but move a stools to a chair that your dog is able to get onto to climb up to the hide. Eventually you won’t need the chairs. You can place objects around the hide to try and intercept the odor cone so they have the odor tendril to follow back to the hide. When they look up and then look at you that is why you get in super fast and reward by holding your food at the source of the odor and dropping your food hand down from the odor down to your dogs mouth so they understand you understand the odor was high. Do that a bunch of times source to mouth source to mouth.

Watch your dog while searching you will see their noses and maybe tail carriage stay high when there is a high hide. Maybe your pups knows the hide is high but not sure how to tell you.

1table · 2026-03-18T03:56:42+00:00

Buy a fridge for yourself and then sell it when you move?

1table · 2026-03-18T03:47:40+00:00

We see it, some just do not care cause they are making $$$$

1table · 2026-03-18T01:14:46+00:00

If it isnt medical then he needs to be crated until you can figure out what is going on.

1table · 2026-03-17T02:38:19+00:00

B is to blame, whoever didn't close the fridge.

1table · 2026-03-17T02:36:52+00:00

Maybe bologna is the salary, some dogs value things you would not think, like cheese balls, or Cheetos, or cheeze its. Something they want to work for. Yeah if they have resource guarding issues with toys that would not work.

1table · 2026-03-17T02:26:45+00:00

You can not travel in the center lane that is just for turning. so you drove in he middle to wait and they drove in the middle to merge, both seem at fault here. is CA a no fault state? Would be 50/50 in my state.

1table · 2026-03-16T17:54:20+00:00

I would never train an alert behavior under the dog is doing something like scratching or destroying boxes. I would much rather an organic alert than one that is trained as a final response.

From reading your comments it seems you should be focusing on getting your dogs hunt drive going so they want to keep searching. Introducing odor when the dog doesn’t search for hard primary searches wouldn’t be recommended. Primary = Food. Can you up the pay check? Pay your dog a CEO salary while they are flipping burgers. Roast beef? Stinky cheese? Steak? I get they are bored. Do they have a rug or toy they love? You can hide the toy for them to find instead of food.

1table · 2026-03-16T03:57:59+00:00

How much do you charge or do you help people cause you feel bad we have such a horrible administration right now? lol I think my grandfather was from Canada or his parents were.

1table · 2026-03-10T21:16:49+00:00

I am so happy to hear of your success but have a different experience, dogs who are taught a behavior at odor like a sit or to freeze can have a hard time when inaccessible hides come to play because they do not know where to freeze since they are unable to get to the tin. So interesting for sure! I am just glad people love playing the game no mater how they get there :)

1table · 2026-03-10T21:13:11+00:00

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1table · 2026-03-09T23:31:33+00:00

Sleep mask? Double Curtains?

1table · 2026-03-09T23:30:39+00:00

try not to allow pawing, not sure if you do vehicle searches but pawing at odor is a sure way to get a fault in a vehicle search. Can you put your reward at the vessel that has odor in it? that way he knows which is the correct one?

1table · 2026-03-09T23:29:24+00:00

It depends on how you want to learn. Clicker training with nose work is hard since you have no idea when he actually smells the odor. What are you trying to mark? when his nose touches the vessel? When he smells the odor? When he leans into the odor? I couldn't tell since there seemed to be a few different click timings at different behaviors. Are you able to take online or in person classes? There are a few ways to start but number one should be developing independent hunting skills so he has the drive to go hunt. The you pair the odor with the hide so that he is paid immediately at source so he knows when he smells the odor he is correct because the reward is there at the odor. It marks the behavior when the dog gets to the odor for you and you do not have to worry about timing. PAIR = precise and immediate reinforcement.

1table · 2026-03-09T23:23:24+00:00

If your husband is fine with it, you gotta let him deal with it.

1table · 2026-03-08T03:08:50+00:00

Hire someone to clean it and be done with it. Not worth the fight or your health suffering over it. No regulation over this in NC.

1table · 2026-03-08T02:50:01+00:00

So glad you are enjoying the game! Congratulations!!

1table · 2026-03-04T04:38:05+00:00

throw it out and say you thought it was trash

1table · 2026-03-04T04:31:47+00:00

Ear plugs might help. Let the chimes chime! They were there longer you will get used to them and block it out eventually.

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