The Search Starts Here: Engagement, Decision-Making & Handling at the Threshold Webinar

When your dog crosses the start line, are they searching or are they just moving? The goal of threshold work isn't simply teaching a dog to find a hide placed near a doorway. It’s building a team: a dog who enters every search area with their nose engaged, their brain working, and the agency to process information before making a move and a handler who actively provides access to information at the start line, reading the picture and giving the dog the spatial freedom and time to process it. Join us for an in-depth look at start-line dynamics, where we'll explore: Why movement should be a consequence of engagement, not the other way around. How to read subtle pre-motion decision-making at the boundary. Simple training setups that build deliberate information processing. Handler mechanics: Looking at techniques like the Slow Down, Sweep, and Reverse Sweep that give the dog clear access to available scent information without overriding their choices. Stop treating the threshold as just a physical boundary or a single hide location. Learn how to train your team to truly start searching at the threshold.