Tuition is $3000.
The course has a flexible start date, usually within 24-48 hours of applying and payment received for the course – or after financing terms have been solidified. Apply here.
This informative course teaches what it takes to become a successful cadaver dog team. Students learn how to aid in police investigations. Each student will learn handling techniques, scent theory, search methods, obedience, proofing, alerting and how to conduct searches across land terrain and water. All knowledge and skills necessary for a dog to complete a search will be covered, as well as first aid, and other skills. By exploring real-life situations, students will learn how to work with the cadaver dog and use the canine’s keen senses to resolve investigations.
Students will be required to video themselves and their dog/s working in a Cadaver detection setting. The final grade is based, in part, on this video.
While we couldn’t possibly list every little detail of the course, here is an overview:
- Training Fundamentals
- Conditioning
- Phases of Training
- Correction vs. Reward
- Obedience Training
- Basic and Advanced
- Proper use of a Prong collar
- Proper use of a Remote collar
- History of Dog Training
- Clicker Training
- Baiting/Luring
- Selecting the HRD dog
- Selecting the Handler
- Drive Development
- Training Equipment
- Training Aids
- Scent Articles
- Proper Handling of Training Aids
- Teaching Practical Agility
- Confidence Development
- Scent Theory
- Scent Cones and Pools
- Varied Terrain & Conditions
- Scent Cones and Pools
- Training Human Remains Detection
- Basic Human Decomposition
- Imprinting
- Search Methods
- Teaching the Alert
- Proofing
- Problem Solving
- Land Cadaver Dogs
- Water Cadaver Dogs
- HRD Operations
- Canine First Aid
- Cadaver Case Law
- Maintaining Cadaver Dogs
- Final Exam and Certification