Although they share a thousand-year-old coexistence, men and dogs orient their interests in the world in a substantially different way. We as humans are sight-oriented animals this means that sight is our dominant sense.
This course is for anyone interested in scent oriented activities: searching for missing people, odors detection. No matter whether you practice these disciplines for passion or work, I will try to guide you through the wonderful world of scent and pass on my passion.
Dogs are, above all, smelling oriented animal. Sense of smell is the dominant one, followed by hearing and then sight. This is a self-learn course aimed to cover the main topics related to the dog’s sense of smell.
The first problem that is faced by anyone who decides to train a dog to search for people or detection is the difficulty in defining what they are working on.
In recent years science has focused on many areas that may be useful to those who work with the dog’s nose. Today we have more knowledge about the physiology of smell, scent perception, theory of learning, and how odors behaves.
During the course we will try to combine theoretical knowledge with dog training.