Cameron Ford

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K9s Talking Scents · #144 Training Puppies On Odor: The Science & Method That Works | Pat Nolan · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

It's like

Yeah.

No, and Dr.

Hare at Duke was one of the ones that first asked me about it years ago.

I can't I've I've always wondered, Cameron, why do you guys have all these dogs sit?

The stalking phase is the most important phase within this because it's there it's way harder for them to inadvertently just do this.

Now, can we train dogs to offer a freeze behavior?

Sure you can, especially if the training isn't as clear about what the rules are for this.

But as he was pointing out, especially on the legal front, wouldn't you want something that you have no command for technically?

You don't have a lot, you know, like you said earlier, when we sit for other things and they get reinforcement for sit in other areas besides just sit at odor, well sitting sitting becomes highly reinforcing, and in in lieu of something else, maybe I'll sit.

Or like you said, seeing behavior from handlers that are predictive to what the handler may want, such as a sit.

comes into play.

So having something that is pure natural, at least as you're beginning training it, has lots of value and one could argue much better legal value to say, I I got nothing that makes a dog do this.

In this case, because of our training and how we trained it, the stimulus in this case odor showed that it caused this to happen.

Nothing I could have done.

I don't have a command for it.

There's no

Like statue, you know, I don't I don't have anything that makes them just do that.

So it is it it was a it was it was cool to have that conversation with somebody who's not from the world that we're in, but also look at it in an analytical and a scientific way of like, why do you guys paint yourself into this corner of a sit when you could have something more natural and easier to read in like his opinion that was more

For lack of a better description, trustworthy for the handler to go with.

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