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The Sniff Session
Find out in 20 minutes whether your dog can settle on her own.
A twenty minute protocol, five sniff patterns, and one honest answer about your dog's nervous system. No commands. No corrections. Nothing to buy before you start.
Get the Sniff Session · $27Written by a certified canine behavior consultant and AKC approved CGC Evaluator who owner trained her own service dog.
Twenty minutes of decompression sniffing. The session shows you what to watch for while it happens.
Read five patterns
What each sniff pattern may be telling you, and what to watch for next.
Run the session
Twenty minutes at your dog's pace. Then you know which one you have.
You did not decide to stop going places.
It happened one no at a time. The farmers market. The dog park with the two dogs. The trail with the parking lot that is always full.
You started walking at 5am because it was the only thing that worked. Somewhere in there you began describing yourself as a homebody, and you were not one at 26.
Nobody was keeping track of any of that except you.
Your dog isn't broken. Just blocked.
She has been communicating this entire time. With her nose. Not with barking, which is the loudest thing she does and the least useful thing to read.
When she stops and presses it to the ground, most guardians see a delay. Something to correct or hurry past. What is actually happening is she's regulating herself right in front of you, and nobody has ever shown you how to read it.
What you get
The breakdown for One walk, repeated as often as you like. Everything you need to run it tonight.
- The page that matters most. The two patterns that look almost identical and mean opposite things. One is a dog reading. One is a dog on alert. Reading it wrong is how a guardian moves her dog forward at the exact moment she needed to be understood.
- The five sniff patterns, named and described, so you can tell what your dog is doing while she is doing it.
- The twenty minute protocol. Your equipment, your location, your own body, the walk, what to watch for and when.
- Five end state markers, so you can tell a tired dog from a regulated one. They are not the same thing and they look nothing alike once you can see it.
- A one page field card, built to be screenshotted and taken with you on the walk.
- One read on your own dog at the end of it.
Get the Sniff Session · $27
Delivered the second you pay. You can run it tonight.
What you will know by tonight
Whether your dog's nervous system can come down on its own when you give her room, or whether she is carrying more than one walk can reach.
Both answers are useful. Most guardians have never had either one. After you are done schedule your 20 min. exploration call with Coach T.
This is not for everyone.
Not for you if
- Your dog can already come to the farmers market
- You are looking for commands, corrections, or a quick fix/trick
- You want one more free tip
It is for you if
- You have quietly crossed places off a list you do not talk about
- You have hired someone before and were given harsh methods
- You have been told to be firmer, then calmer, then be the pack leader, and have started to think the problem must be you
Everything in here is Science based.
Written by a certified canine behavior consultant and AKC approved CGC Evaluator who owner trained her own service dog.
Sources are cited comes with the authors, the journal, or a link you can follow yourself. Dog training is full of confident claims with nothing behind them unfortunately, and a great deal of outdated dominance theory gets called dog psychology, which is not actual science.
The five patterns are science based. Years of teaching guardians / owners / handlers and their dogs how to walk nicely on leash with no pulling, sorted into the five things I see over and over. Because dressing observation up as research is exactly the problem in dog training.
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Questions before you buy
My dog is fine, she just does not like other dogs. Is this for me?
Twenty minutes tells you whether fine is accurate, or whether fine is the word you settled on. Either answer is worth having.
How long does this take?
Twelve pages to read, twenty minutes to run. You can do both today.
Do I need special equipment?
A fixed long line, fifteen to twenty feet, and a flat collar or harness. Nothing that tightens. If you do not own a long line yet, read it first and buy after.
Is this the same as your course?
No. This is one DIY session you run yourself. Calm Builders is the ongoing work with COach T., and there is a link inside if you want it afterward.
Will this fix my dog's reactivity?
No, olfactory decompression is the start. This tells you where your dog actually is right now, which is the thing you need before anything else works.