K9s Talking Scents

The growth with the use of Detection Dogs has been rapidly expanding into all kinds of new areas. In this Episode we speak to Paris Nicholson who is the owner of PTA (Pipeline leak Training Acadamy). Paris Trains dogs and Handlers who want to get into the lucrative business of Pipe line leak detection. Mr. Nicholson has been involved in the law enforcement and security industries for the past 35 years. As a member and Head Trainer of the U.S.Virgin Islands Police Department, K-9 Unit he oversaw the training of officers in criminal apprehension, Narcotics and Explosive Detection. In 1989 Mr. Nicholson started his own security guard agency in the U.S.Virgin Islands growing the business to employ over 350 armed and unarmed security personnel, private investigations and armored car services. In 2000 he built owned and operated Bullseye, the Virgin Islands first indoor shooting range and training academy catering to Federal and Local Law Enforcement Agencies. Mr. Nicholson received certification from the Detroit P

In this Episode I speak with Craig Koshyk and Bart Rogers. We discuss the history of breeds and why they do what they do. We go over why we tend to pick dogs they way we do in the USA and what we really need to pay attention to.... more than just what the breed is. Often times decisions are made based off what a handler likes vs what a handler needs. Also, little is considered as to the genetic history of the dog. A pointer is not just a pointer and a lab may not be just a retriever.   Craig Koshyk: Craig is a self proclaimed dog nut, canine historian, photographer and writer. He has studied breeds and their history all over the world. Check out his work at https://pointingdogblog.blogspot.com   Bart Rogers: Bart has been developing and training explosives detection dogs, and instructing handler courses, for 10 years. Bart specializes in the foundational training of green dogs for explosives detection. He has successfully trained hundreds of explosives detection dogs for groups including VWK9, ATF, Department

This Episode we speak with Mike Suttle of Logan Haus Kennels... Mike is a well know breeder and trainer. Mike has well proven breedings of Malinois and Dutch Shepherds as well as Labradors. I personally have had 2 dogs from Logan Haus (1 Malinois and 1 Labrador) both have been outstanding dogs. *Episode Warning, Mike is on a cell phone during this interview and at times has spotty signal, he cuts out from time to time but you can still follow what he is saying and speaking about. Logan Haus Kennels is owned by Mike Suttle. Mike has been training and raising working dogs for over 30 years. He began with the first working sled dog kennel in West Virginia where he trained Siberian Huskies and Alaskan Malamutes. At age13, he titled his first dog in obedience. Growing up on a cattle farm, he learned how to train herding dogs for livestock. Throughout his high school years, he worked as a veterinary assistant. He then spent 8 years in the United States Marine Corps where he was first introduced to the military work

This is episode 50!!! Landmark episode for K9s Talking Scents.  I get to sit down with former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, author of Trident K9 Warriors, Navy SEAL dogs, and Team Dog. Host of podcast Mike Drop, Owner of Trikos K9, Team Dog, as well as Founder of Warrior Dog Foundation and there are always a few more things Mike does to keeps himself busy.  You can check out more about Mike Ritland and all he has to offer at www.mikeritlandco.com   Mike and I cover a lot of information in this episode, we cover relationships with your dog, training your dog and nutrition for your dog.   SHOW SPONSORS: Integrity Noseworx www.integritynoseworx.com Grassroots K9 Maryland www.grassrootsk9.com K9s United www.K9sunited.org    Ford K9 LLC FORD K9: www.Fordk9.com  LOOKING FOR YOUR NEXT DOG? Contact us here at Ford K9 to purchase your next fully trained Detection Dog. Now you can also pick one of our raised puppy to detection dogs. Email info@fordk9.com    Ford K9 MOBILE CLASSROOM - We come to YOU. Any one of our classes an

Debi DeShon is passionate about animals and our environment. Ms. DeShon received a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Business and Management from UC Davis in 1987. Afterwards, she attended Moorpark College and earned an Associates degree in Exotic Animal Training and Management in 1989. Mrs. DeShon then launched her career in Hollywood training dogs for television and such iconic movies as "Beethoven". Subsequently she began working with Interquest Detection Canines as a canine handler in 1996. She has operated four Interquest Detection Canines franchises since 1999, and has been successfully training and managing canine teams in the detection of illegal drugs and contraband. Mrs. DeShon founded Mussel Dogs in 2008 and has multiple canine/handler teams that detect quagga and zebra mussels. Mussel Dogs has been a key partner in protecting waterways across California, Iowa, Texas and Washington. Ms. DeShon has trained detection dogs and service dogs in collaboration with Greendog Project Rescue (GDRP)

In this special episode, I join forces with James joins forces with the K9 Conservation podcast in a mashup on all things conservation with detection specialist James Davis and Jeff Milner from the Conservation Canine Officers Association. For more information please visit: https://www.fordk9.com/podcast Conservation Canine Officers Association For more information on The Conservation K9 Camp, being held between 8-12 September 2021 in Kenilworth, Queensland, Australia please visit padfoot.com.au/events-and-clinics/conservation-k9-camp The Conservation K9 Podcast is sponsored by Padfoot Conservation K9s. Padfoot provides working dog teams specialising in invasive species detection and management, and helps scientists and agencies throughout Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world select, train and handle their own conservation detection dogs for both native and invasive species detection. To find out how Padfoot can help you please email team@padfoot.com.au Padfoot Professional K9 Services Padfoot pro

Dr. Concha is a Postdoctoral research associate at the US Army Research Office. Dr. Concha has 20 years of experience that encompasses working in clinical animal behaviour, working as a detection dog trainer, and working as a researcher. She earned her PhD in animal behavior from the University of Lincoln (UK), has worked with Medical Detection Dogs (UK), and has worked with Police and Military Working Dogs across the world. Her primary research area is the study of canine olfactory performance and developing novel technologies to measure alert responses in detection dogs. Dr. Concha is currently working with Military Working Dogs to identify cognitive, sensory, and morphological markers associated with key performance metrics in dual- purpose Military Working Dogs at Lackland Air Force Base (USA). Contact Dr. Concha on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/astrid.concha SHOW SPONSORS: American Tactical K9: www.ATK9.org SEMINAR September 27 to October 1 at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center https://atk9.org

In this episode we speak with world-renowned detection dog trainer and author Paul Bunker of Chiron K9. Author of the new book "Imprint your Detection Dog in 15 days" which you can purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578896516 Paul Bunker served in the British Army as a Canine Trainer/Instructor/Assessor for over 22 years. During this time, he was the Senior Instructor/Trainer of Explosive Detection Dog/Handler Training for both UK and US Military at the UK Defence Animal Centre. He developed new training techniques and methodologies that are now considered internationally standard training practice. Paul is Senior Technical Advisor to the United States Department of Defence and establish their first off-leash detection dog program. He was responsible for handler team training of the United States Marine Corps Explosives Detection Dog program prior to being the Program Manager for Canine Research & Development working with academia to include subjects such as cognition, hydration, nutritio

On this Episode we speak with Mike Kmiecik of the Sheepdog Guardian / K9 Legal Update website. Mike is a 24-year law enforcement veteran and 15-year veteran police service and working dog handler.  Mike has handled multiple dogs specialized in patrol, narcotic-contraband detection and human remains detection (including as a mobile field force canine operator).  Mike has more than 8,000-hours of training in law enforcement and police service dog operations.  Mike has been the recipient of numerous awards from the Bartlett (Illinois) Police Department (including Life Saving, Meritorious Service, Honorable Unit/Shift Citations and Officer of the Year), the Cook County (Illinois) Sheriff’s Office, the Illinois Department of Transportation and the Illinois D.A.R.E. Officer’s Association.  Mike is the lead instructor for Sheepdog Guardian Consulting and maintain the most comprehensive canine legal website, “Canine Legal Updates and Opinions” and contributed to K9 COP Magazine, and Police K9 Radio.  Mike has taught

Dr. Cablk is well known in the SAR community and more recently become known to Law Enforcement on various cases she has testified on. We discuss all this is so much more. Dr. Mary E. Cablk is an expert in detection and systems. In her research, she draws upon knowledge from multiple fields such as olfaction, analytical chemistry, learning, cognitive and industrial/occupational psychology, forensics, spatial analysis, pattern analysis, and image processing. Her interests focus on transforming qualitative observation into quantitative data and combining multiple input data types to solve complex challenges related to detection, in a field setting. Her research and expertise has taken her around the world where she has addressed audiences and worked with colleagues on landmine detection, wildlife detection, recovery of human remains, and search and rescue, among others. She works closely with relevant agencies and organizations on the development and implementation of credentialing and standards for canine teams

On this podcast, we get to finally discuss the cognition testing and research on how predictable the cognition tests on puppies are in determining if they are potential detection or working dogs.  Many of us who work breed or train dogs always know its a crap shoot at times to know if the puppy we are working with can or will turn out to do what we hope.   Dr. Emily Bray conducted her post-doctoral research associate at the Arizona Canine Cognition Center (in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona) and Canine Companions for Independence, where I study how early developmental, behavioral, and cognitive factors impact later life outcomes.   I earned my PhD in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania where I worked with Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney, and James Serpell. For my dissertation, I partnered with The Seeing Eye, Inc.  to conduct a longitudinal study investigating puppy development, which involved tracking a cohort of 138 puppies from birth until completion of the program.   Prior

On this Episode I get to speak with Bill Gaskins of Integrity Noseworx. Bill is the son of two retired police officers in Oregon and has been working with dogs since he was 11 years old. During his Air Force Experience Bill a Military Working Dog Handler of 10 different dogs, Dog Trainer for over 50 operational Dog Teams and Kennel Master managing kennel operations all over the world. As a canine training instructor, Bill trained and certified over 624 dog teams in tasks from Obedience, Patrol Protection as well as Explosive and Narcotics detection. Bills experience culminated as the course director of 5 different canine training programs where he developed and delivered courseware and evaluated dog teams on three levels; dog, handler and overall team.   Bill is a sport Scent Work Judge for AKC Scent Work and NACSW Judge. Contact Bill at www.integritynoseworx.com  Show Sponsors: Scent Wheels Are you looking for Scent wheels for detection training?? Some of the best in the business are made sold by Pat Nolan,

On this episode we speak with Ken Pavlick of Pacific Coast K9. Ken has been working dogs for over 30 years.  He was first in the USAF as a MWD Handler, then a Police Officer and K9 Handler for agencies on the West Coast.  Later he opened Pacific Coast K9 located in Washington and has been training and selling detection dogs ever since.  Ken due to his experience is a wealth of knowledge and has a lot of great info to share with our listeners.     You can contact Ken at www.pacificcoastk9.com    Show Sponsors:   Are you looking for Scent wheels for detection training?? Some of the best in the business are made sold by Pat Nolan, go visit Pat Nolan's website.  www.tacticaldirectionalk9.com    FORD K9 LLC.   www.fordk9.com   Ford K9 MOBILE CLASSROOM - We come to YOU.  Any one of our classes and seminars can come to you and your area.  Contact us today to schedule.   FORD K9 in LAS VEGAS:  Attend any one of our classes or seminars.  Ford K9 now offers the new CSDT (Certified Sport Detection Dog Trainer) clas

Don Blair had his start with working K9s as a police officer. Having served as a K9 officer for 5 years, he moved into US Customs and Border Protection and quickly worked his way through a variety of roles including Canine Enforcement Officer, Instructor/Course Developer and Canine Branch Chief. He was responsible for supervision of Department of Homeland Security/Customs Border Protection anti-terrorism inspections and special enforcement operations as well as canine training and research development programs.   After founding CIA in 1984, Don continued to procure skills in optimizing canine learning through the attendance of numerous courses all over the world focused on operant conditioning. He actively applied these techniques to each position during his career resulting in highly effective and efficient results for teams under his oversight. Through CIA, he brings these same standards of learning coupled with over 30 years of experience to AKC obedience handlers, Schutzhund (IPO) handlers, and most recen

The last Episode of Season 2 goes out with a bang!!! In this episode, I speak with Todd Wilber.   Todd Wilber, President of Precision Explosives LLC Todd has worked for over 20 years in counterterrorism as a responder, researcher, policy writer and senior manager. He responded to various incidents at the local, national and transnational levels. His experience includes battlefield firsthand experience with improvised explosives and IEDs. He conducted research on various improved explosives and developed novel render safe procedures for IEDs as well as nuclear devices. Mr. Wilber is completing work on new, broad use desensitization solutions and techniques for powdered primary explosives. He has worked in U.S. Army special operations, additionally as a program manager and researcher at the national labs, a Senior Energy Official for real-world emergencies, and contractor for State Department leading indigenous personnel in explosive hazard mitigation during combat operations. Other duties included providing se

In this podcast, I sit down with my good friend Wesely Visscher owner of Scent Imprint for Dogs (based in Holland).  Wesely has been working and training detection dogs for many years now and more recently has been very focused on the Bio Detection and Conservation Detection worlds.  Conservation and Bio Detection dogs are an emerging market and we discuss this as well as many other detection training topics.   You can contact Wesley at info@scentimprint.com or go visit his website at www.scentimprint.com Show Sponsors: FORD K9 LLC.   www.fordk9.com Attend any one of our classes or seminars.  Ford K9 now offers the new CSDT (Certified Sport Detection Dog Trainer) classes.  We offer Level 1 and Level 2.  Becoming a CSDT will help you develop as a trainer and become more familiar and efficient as a trainer working with all types of dogs and handlers wanting to join in the great sport of scent detection. Ford K9 also offers CPDT (Canine Police/Professional Detection Dog Training School ) Levels 1, 2, and Master

This is a powerful episode where we talk to the Commanding officer and unit Sgt. of the prestigious NYPD Transit Bureau K9 unit. This unit is comprised of over 50 dog teams and protect NY City for every major event that happens, from UN National Assembly, US OPEN, New Year's Eve, Times Square, the entire subway system in their jurisdiction, and so much more.  We cover the "value of failure" and pushing yourself outside your comfort levels so you and your dog can grow as a team.  Hope you enjoy it.   Lt. John Pappas: over 25 years of Law enforcement experience. I started my career with the Amtrak Police, and in 1997 I joined the NYC Police Department. I rapidly rose through the ranks and became a Lieutenant in 2005. That same year I was tasked with creating the newest specialized unit within the NYPD, the Transit Bureau Canine Unit. The purpose of the unit is to deploy highly trained canine teams to perform a proactive, pedestrian and rail based patrol, in order to deter, detect, respond and mit

Paul S. Martin, M.A. is an anthropologist and K9 handler for History Flight, Inc. with K9 Ziva, where they assist in the search and recovery of missing American Service Members from foreign conflicts. He also provides archaeological consulting services through Martin Consulting. He is an affiliate of the Society of American Archaeology, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and is the past president of the National Network of Canine Detection Services. He is a member of the AAFS Standards Board Consensus Body for Dogs and Sensors. He is the cofounder of HRD Specialized K9 Training that was established in 2002. He earned his B.S. in Anthropology with a concentration in Forensic Anthropology at Western Carolina University in 2011 and his M.A. at the University of Mississippi in 2015. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Memphis in the Department of Earth Sciences, where his dissertation research is centered on Cadaver Dogs and Ground-Penetrating Radar.  Since 1997, he has been involved with

Robin has been involved in detection work since 2001, beginning in wilderness and human remains detection (HRD), which expanded into disaster work. She trains and deploys with Nebraska Task Force 1 and Iowa Task Force 1. She is a certified explosives and narcotics detection dog handler.  Subject matter expert for the AAFS Dogs and Sensors Consensus Body Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), where she is an instructor and evaluator for both live and HRD Alliance for Emergency Response Instructors and Examiners (AERIE), where she is a certified search manager, a search management instructor and Director of the Canine Branch National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR), where she is a certified search manager, a search management instructor and Canine Lead Evaluator in most disciplines Search and Rescue Dogs of the United States (SARDUS) as an Canine Evaluator Contact Robin at www.www.k9sensus.org Show Sponsors: FORD K9 LLC.   www.fordk9.com  Attend any one of our classes or seminars.  Ford K9 now of

Gord McGuinness is currently a member of the Metro Vancouver Transit Police Service in British Columbia, Canada. This new assignment follows a 34-year career with the Vancouver Police Department. Prior to his retirement from the VPD, Gord spent 18 of 34 years as a canine handler and worked five police service dogs during his time in the VPD Canine Unit. For more than a decade Gord held the position of Head Trainer in the Canine Unit where he was responsible for implementing the first single purpose, narcotic and explosive detection dog teams in the history of the Vancouver Police Department. His responsibilities also included the acquisition and training of 21 general duty, and 4 detection dog teams. Throughout his time in the Canine Unit, Gord worked his own general duty and explosive detection dog. In addition to his policing career, Gord operates a private consulting business in which he trains patrol, narcotic and explosive detection dogs for the private security industry. He has worked closely with Fred