Ramsey Nosework

10/20/2023

My Nosework DVD’s are available in streaming format from Leerburg and are at a discounted rate right now.

This DVD covers a foundation for nosework with your dog taught by trainer Andrew Ramsey.

09/11/2023

07/14/2023

September 2nd & 3rd
November 18th & 19th

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05/08/2023

Modo representing the Guardians of the Night 👊

05/03/2023

HANDLER’S SEMINAR THIS SATURDAY
email [email protected]

Do you miss hides at times despite your dog knowing odor well and having a clear response behavior?
This could be related to your handling…😳
This seminar will give valuable feedback to assist in making you and your dog a better TEAM in Scent Work 💪🏼

05/02/2023

BEGINNERS SCENT WORK SEMINARS

Napa, CA June 3-4
Portland, OR August 5-6

email or text for more info
[email protected]
707-656-3672

04/24/2023

In this video Andrew Ramsey explains using a clicker to both explain to your dog the precise location of odor source in scent work as well as using the click...

04/23/2023

When Grumble was tiny(ish)

December 2017.This is one of the later sessions teaching Grumblebum the Object Guard with food. All of the initial process was taught by having something he ...

04/21/2023

For the last 10 years when I talk to someone about scent work.

Them- I’m having my dog search boxes to build hunt.
Me- Hey me too! Except…
My F3 System does it in a way that teaches search pattern from the beginning, installs ritualistic search cues and is easier to track progression of increased duration of independent, uninterrupted searching!
Them- Wait, what?😳

Them- I’m using this special box or contraption to teach my dog that odor is what pays it or to teach them a TFR.
Me- Hey me too! Except…
My F3 System does it in a way that prioritizes searching behavior and where the dog must always discriminate prior to sourcing the odor box that visually looks similar to many other boxes to avoid confusion and practicality eliminate FR’s.
I also created a set-up that does not allow dogs to scratch the odor box because it is not placed on the ground where the dog can easily do so. My system allows the odor box to be placed sturdily in many different positions to adapt to reinforcing different TFR positions or accommodate dogs of a very wide variety of heights and sizes.
Them- Wait, what?😳

I was recently told I should tag a lot of other “cool” trainers to try to get people’s attention or maybe put on a lab coat and and speak more about studies. I’m not knocking those things in any way, but I’ve been doing my own mass scale study for the last 20 years on the learning process of dogs in initial detection that covers a huge variety of dog types, handler types and target odors. When people don’t see the easy to spot benefits like this that I have been doing for the last 10 years, I know they don’t see all the minor minutiae in all the aspects of the F3 System.

04/18/2023

This video from 12 years ago shows one of the first few scent work sessions with this dog. For the people I work with now or those that don’t know, this is how I was originally taught detection. When I started training recreational scent work with people and their pets it quickly became apparent to me that a verbal marker/clicker would be much more successfully utilized on a mass scale to mark the moment the dog sources odor or to pay it for the TFR. Plus with the switch to a marker people doing my system did not have to worry about hiding the FPDD or toy to be able to deliver it stealthily in the initial sessions anymore, especially from their armpit the way I do.

Gus Initial Detection Pay on Sniff