Can my dog wait for a minute with a distaction? Yes!!!
I am please to be able to practice the skill I have learned with my show Cocker Spaniel. Home-work completed :)
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🐾 Efficacy Trials: Ensuring Detection Dogs Deliver for Conservation 🐾
Detection dogs are powerful allies in wildlife conservation, helping locate protected species, invasive plants, and signs of illegal activity. But how do we know these dogs truly work?
That’s where efficacy trials come in.
These trials test how accurately and reliably detection dogs find their targets under real-world conditions. Key features include:
🔍 Blind testing to prevent handler bias
🌿 Evaluating dog performance across different environments
⚖️ Measuring false alerts and missed detections
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Cathal Bergin
Jun 09
Nicely said and would agree on your assessment of both internal and external assessed.
Internally assessing your team ensures your up to the task and highlights any areas that may need attention whether its the search, the indication or discrimination etc. While having any organization, group or certifying body to act as a third party can be a very good way to confirm or back up what internal assessment results may show.
I feel in the UK like here in the Republic these third parties don't exits? and from my experience it might not always be possible to get clients to assist, which leads to another point should clients assist?
However regardless of how teams are assessed if everybody has a different assessment method what's the point, which brings in the standardization you mentioned.
I wonder if people feel if there was a standard set of criteria in place that everyone had access to and worked towards would this not be a good idea?
📝🐾 Balancing Fieldwork & Desk Time: Report Writing + Detection Dog Surveys 🌿💻
Behind every successful survey is a well-written report. Report writing might not be the most glamorous part of the job, but it’s where our fieldwork becomes meaningful — clear communication ensures conservation impact. 📊📍
✅ Detection Dog Report Writing – Quick Tips
1. Clear Summary
Outline purpose, location, target species, dates, and key results up front.
2. Define Your Methodology
Explain how surveys were conducted, including search methods, conditions, and dog/handler details.
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Nice one!