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I am Captain Ray Varnom with Page Police Department for Expert Village. com. What I wanted to
do today is give just give you a little bit of insight in how to find a detector dog.
The Detector dog is a dog that can do any number of things it can do search and rescue,
drug detection, bomb detection, cadaver dogs, anything that has to do with searching, but
when you are doing this in trying to find a dog that will work for this you need to
find the genetic drives in the dog that is in this dog that we don't have to teach. What
we want to do is we want to show you a couple of dogs here that have these genetic drives,
one of them would be prey drive, retreive drive, play drive, and also hunting drive.
Each one of them we'll try to explain, what we'll do is take a ball out now, this dog
here is a 7 year old german shepherd that has no training. We just received him for
some detection work but, we wanted to do is the first thing is we wanted to show you that
this type of drive is in them, no matter what age it is; it can be a puppy it can be 10
to 20 years old it doesn't matter it has these drives in them. So, I'll show you this, I'll
pull the ball out and you can see he is just sitting there he is just looking around but,
watch what happens when I pull the ball out and just show it to him. Seus! so you can
see he is locked in on that ball, he is like I want to do that ball. Put it around now,
what we want to do is when we do this and we show him the ball, we want to play a game
with him. When we play a game with him I'll try to play hide and seek. As you can see
he really wants this ball. So what I'll do is play a game with him and I'll take him
over and he'll turn him around and I'll go "look at the ball, look what I got, look what
I got. Now just hold him right there. I'll bring it up and I'll play a game with him.
Here's the ball and I'll pretend like I put it right there. I'll put it there, where is
it at? Now, I'll bring it back to him and show him that I don't have it anymore. Where's
the ball at, where's the ball at? well find it; then we just let him search Now, the hunting
drive will be how long he searches and he'll keep looking until he finds it and then you
praise him everything is positive reinforcement. It's a big game to him now that was obviosly
easy, when we start training it's called "The Easy Easy". We want to do an easy find, an
easy retrieve, and an easy alert, everything is easy to him.