Canine Conversations

In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla talks to Stacy Barnett about fringe alerts in detection dogs. What is fringing? When a dog alerts to odor outside of the preferred range of where the indication should be, aka too far away The final response begins where sourcing ends, so with fringing, the sourcing ends prematurely, making the alert farther away from the scent than is preferred Why does it happen? The behavior chain of sourcing and alerting is off balance Over-enthusiastic for the search Over emphasising the alert/not enough emphasis on sourcing the odor Different kind of setting with work/trial vs training For a trial or working a job, you are under different stressors and you aren’t able to control the environment and set up When under pressure, your behavior may be different which can be difficult for your dog to work with Differentiation of odor concentration If working in a situation with different odor concentrations, t