K9s Talking Scents

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, nutrition, detection and conditioning. Contact Paul at www.chiron-k9.com Show Sponsors: SciK9 Home of the TADD (Training Aid Delivery Device). Protect your training aid and give your dogs one of the best and safest ways to be trained to detect odor. Go visit www.scik9.com Precision Explosives Do you want a great source for explosive training aids as well as a way to train on REAL explosives and Narcotics and do so safely and not need various licenses? Go check out the Scent imprint pads from Precision Explosives. Todd Wilbur and his staff follow strict protocols to ensure you get the industry's best training aids. Go visit www.pre-exp.com FORD K9 LLC. 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 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) 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. Do you want to become a professional handler in Conservation or SAR or other Detection disciplines? Ford K9 also offers CPDT (Canine Police/Professional Detection Dog Training School ) Levels 1, 2, and Master Trainer. This is for Handlers and Trainers or those working professional detection dogs such as Explosive, Firearm, Narcotic and Electronic Media / Cell Phone Detection, Conservation, SAR / Human Remains, Currency and more. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for K9s TALKING SCENTS PODCAST you now have all kinds of gear for you guys from Shirts, Hats, Mugs and more just got to www.fordk9.com and click on the ONLINE STORE

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 and written about police service and working dog operations, industry standards and legal updates for 8-years.  Mike is also a committee member with the Illinois Tactical Officer’s Association K9 Committee (Subgroup:  Patrol K9) and the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board Working Group Canine Compliance. Contact Mike at www.sheepdogguardian.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, go visit Pat Nolan's website.  www.tacticaldirectionalk9.com  SciK9  Home of the TADD (Training Aid Delivery Device). Protect your training aid and give your dogs one of the best and safest ways to be trained to detect odor.    Go visit www.scik9.com  Precision Explosives  Do you want a great source for explosive training aids as well as a way to train on REAL explosives and Narcotics and do so safely and not need various licenses? Go check out the Scent imprint pads from Precision Explosives. Todd Wilbur and his staff follow strict protocols to ensure you get the industry's best training aids.  Go visit www.pre-exp.com  FORD K9 LLC.  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 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) classes. We offer Level 1 and Level 2. Becoming a CSDT

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 in a variety of disciplines. Dr. Cablk has been instrumental in developing a Ph.D. program in forensic anthropology at the University of Nevada Reno, where she is an adjunct professor and mentors graduate students. She is an auxiliary deputy with several county Sheriff Offices in the State of Nevada and is a resource to the State of California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.  You can contact Dr. Cablk at Mary.Cablk@dri.edu  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, go visit Pat Nolan's website.  www.tacticaldirectionalk9.com  SciK9  Home of the TADD (Training Aid Delivery Device). Protect your training aid and give your dogs one of the best and safest ways to be trained to detect odor.  Go visit www.scik9.com  Precision Explosives  Do you want a great source for explosive training aids as well as a way to train on REAL explosives and do so safely and not need various licenses? Go check out the Scent imprint pads from Precision Explosives. Todd Wilbur and his staff follow strict protocols to ensure you get the industry's best training aids.  Go visit www.pre-exp.com  FORD K9 LLC.  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 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) 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 (Cani

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 to UPenn, I earned a B.A. in Psychology and English from Duke University, where I worked at the Duke Canine Cognition Center studying inhibitory control in pet and Canine Companions for Independence® assistance dogs with Evan MacLean and Brian Hare.   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, go visit Pat Nolan's website.     www.tacticaldirectionalk9.com    SciK9    Home of the TADD (Training Aid Delivery Device). Protect your training aid and give your dogs one of the best and safest ways to be trained to detect odor.    Go visit www.scik9.com     Precision Explosives   Do you want a great source for explosive training aids as well as a way to train on REAL explosives and do so safely and not need various licenses?  Go check out the Scent imprint pads from Precision Explosives.  Todd Wilbur and his staff follow strict protocols to ensure you get the industry's best training aids.   Go visit www.pre-exp.com    FORD K9 LLC.   www.fordk9.com   LOOKING FOR YOUR NEXT DOG? Contact us here at Ford K9 to purchase your next fully trained Detection Dog.  Email info@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) classes.  We offer Level 1 and Level 2. 

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, go visit Pat Nolan's website.   www.tacticaldirectionalk9.com  SciK9  Home of the TADD (Training Aid Delivery Device). Protect your training aid and give your dogs one of the best and safest ways to be trained to detect odor.  Go visit www.scik9.com     Precision Explosives Do you want a great source for explosive training aids as well as a way to train on REAL explosives and do so safely and not need various licenses?  Go check out the Scent imprint pads from Precision Explosives.  Todd Wilbur and his staff follow strict protocols to ensure you get the industry's best training aids. Go visit www.pre-exp.com    FORD K9 LLC.   www.fordk9.com   LOOKING FOR YOUR NEXT DOG? Contact us here at Ford K9 to purchase your next fully trained Detection Dog.  Email info@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) 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 Trainer. Thi

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) 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 Trainer. This is for Handlers and Trainers or those working professional detection dogs such as Explosive, Firearm, Narcotic, Mass Media, and Cell Phone Detection.   LOOKING FOR YOUR NEXT DOG? Contact us here at Ford K9 to purchase your next fully trained Detection Dog.  email info@fordk9.com        SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for K9s TALKING SCENTS PODCAST you now have all kinds of gear for you guys from Shirts, Hats, Mugs and more just got to www.fordk9.com and click on the ONLINE STORE

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 recently with the relatively new sport of K9 Nose Work. Don continues to provide consulting services to multiple industries including personal protection companies, AmTrak, Search and Rescue Teams, police organizations, and the military.   Don is a United States Police Canine Association (USPCA) judge in tracking, detection, obedience, and protection, as well as an AKC CGC evaluator.   His website is www.CIAK9.net    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) 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 Trainer. This is for Handlers and Trainers or those working professional detection dogs such as Explosive, Firearm, Narcotic, Mass Media, and Cell Phone Detection.   LOOKING FOR YOUR NEXT DOG? Contact us here at Ford K9 to purchase your next fully trained Detection Dog.  email info@fordk9.com    SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for K9s TALKING SCENTS PODCAST you now have all kinds of gear for you guys from Shirts, Hats, Mugs and more just got to www.fordk9.com and click on the ONLINE STORE

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 senior management direction for the overall safety, security and environmental compliance for the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center. As an adjunct professor, he worked with graduate students and faculty to characterize primary explosives and develop chemical saving solutions.   You can contact Todd at www.pre-exp.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 Trainer. This is for Handlers and Trainers or those working professional detection dogs such as Explosive, Firearm, Narcotic, Mass Media, and Cell Phone Detection. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for K9s TALKING SCENTS PODCAST you now have all kinds of gear for you guys from Shirts, Hats, Mugs and more just got to www.fordk9.com and click on the ONLINE STORE Search Dog Timer (SDT) app Go to the Apple App Store and search look for the "Search Dog Timer" app.  This app allows you to log times and take photos with labels to where your odor is and when your dog found them.  Go check out Search Dog Timer

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 Trainer. This is for Handlers and Trainers or those working professional detection dogs such as Explosive, Firearm, Narcotic, Mass Media, and Cell Phone Detection. We offer various seminars such as Canine Cognition, Detection using Cognition for Handlers and Trainers in Law Enforcement, Security and SAR/HRD as well as Wildlife Conservation K9 Teams.  Contact us for more information at www.fordk9.com   SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for K9s TALKING SCENTS PODCAST you now have all kinds of gear for you guys from Shirts, Hats, Mugs and more just got to www.fordk9.com and click on the ONLINE STORE Search Dog Timer (SDT) app Go to the Apple App Store and search look for the "Search Dog Timer" app.  This app allows you to log times and take photos with labels to where your odor is and when your dog found them.  Go check out Search Dog Timer

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 mitigate an attack in the most dense urban environment in the Western Hemisphere, the NYC Transit System. The Transit Bureau Canine Unit is the largest of the NYPD's canine units, and the largest mass transit specific unit in the Western Hemisphere. Because our canines are capable of being in dense crowds, the unit has also been tasked with covering all large events in NYC, such as the UN General Assembly, New Year's Eve, US National Tennis Open, all sporting events, and large parades. Over the years, my team and I have created highly advanced counter-terrorism tactics and deployments, and have responded to more terror attacks than any other canine unit in the United States. My team and I have been consulted to assist in the successful creation of other police canine units, and we continue to assist other canine units nationally and internationally on canine training, management, deployments, tactics and mitigation strategies. We work in close cooperation with federal, state and local partners to conduct multifaceted training sessions to strengthen the regional cooperation of canine interoperability. It is my distinct privilege to be in command of one of the most advanced canine units in the world.    Sgt. Randy Brenner: is the Director of USS - K9 Solutions, Inc., located in Suffolk County, New York. Randy has been in law enforcement for over 20 years as well as the Director of Training, Patrol Supervisor and Canine Handler for the Canine Unit. In 2016 Randy was promoted to Sergeant Special Assignment. He assisted in the creation and implementation of the NYPD Transit Bureau Canine Unit, the Counterterrorism Canine Unit and the Vapor Wake Program. He also assisted the development of the Advanced Canine Detection Harness and was responsible for coordinating canine safety lectures in schools and outreach programs. Randy specializes in explosive detection and his knowledge and experience has increased the effectiveness both on the job and as director of USS - K9 Solutions, Inc.   The website for USS K9 Solutions www.ussk9.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