Understanding Delayed Conditioning for Detection Dogs

Ask yourself this... Should Reward lead to Odor OR Odor lead to Reward???
Many of us when training detection dogs use the system of Simultaneous Conditioning meaning we have the reward paired with odor, then we move to just odor being present. Example Remote ball popping boxes, or boxes or what have you where we have reinforcement with the odor.

Delayed Conditioning means Dog comes into odor first and while in odor the Conditioned Reinforcer or Reinforcement is delivered. This system teaches tot he dog odor has to happen first. In this video we discuss this more in-depth.

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