remy
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This is probably the oddest assortment of things I’ve bought! I’m finally getting around to starting buried with Remy. I checked 3 stores and this was the only tea strainer I could find…
The 4 pack of containers were at Costco for $10, which seemed like a good deal compared to some stores. I need to go back and grab a second set.
Fenzi recommends teaching buried in 5 steps so we’ll be doing that to make sure his foundations are good. Today we did steps 1 & 2 with 2 searches for each step. He did great!
“Instead of just TRYING Buried, there is a better way to train it. This approach was originally pioneered by Holly Bushard. This is not necessarily the full process but a few of the steps that can help your dog to learn this element.”
My attempt are recapping the steps lol:
Step 1: No sand, keep the cold boxes empty and only put the tin, tea strainer, etc in the hot box.
Step 2: Add cardboard scraps into the cold boxes, keep the hot box empty besides for the odor (and its container).
Step 3: Add cardboard scraps into the hot box and on top of the tin.
Step 4: Remove cardboard scraps. Add a little bit of sand into all containers. Set the tea strainer on top (not buried yet).
Step 5: Start to bury the tea strainer little bits at a time until fully buried.
Since we now have dog events planned every weekend of October, I decided to only do one day of the scent work trial. He’ll be able to do each element twice. I think he’s doing pretty good with interior and exterior, so our focus will now be containers and buried. (Of course still training for the other elements too.) I can’t remember if I already mentioned this, but I’ve also done some training sessions where someone else sets the hides and I call “alert” like I would in trial. We’re doing pretty good with that too, but I did call a false alert once.


Fenzi recommends teaching buried in 5 steps so we’ll be doing that to make sure his foundations are good. Today we did steps 1 & 2 with 2 searches for each step. He did great!
“Instead of just TRYING Buried, there is a better way to train it. This approach was originally pioneered by Holly Bushard. This is not necessarily the full process but a few of the steps that can help your dog to learn this element.”
My attempt are recapping the steps lol:
Step 1: No sand, keep the cold boxes empty and only put the tin, tea strainer, etc in the hot box.
Step 2: Add cardboard scraps into the cold boxes, keep the hot box empty besides for the odor (and its container).
Step 3: Add cardboard scraps into the hot box and on top of the tin.
Step 4: Remove cardboard scraps. Add a little bit of sand into all containers. Set the tea strainer on top (not buried yet).
Step 5: Start to bury the tea strainer little bits at a time until fully buried.
Since we now have dog events planned every weekend of October, I decided to only do one day of the scent work trial. He’ll be able to do each element twice. I think he’s doing pretty good with interior and exterior, so our focus will now be containers and buried. (Of course still training for the other elements too.) I can’t remember if I already mentioned this, but I’ve also done some training sessions where someone else sets the hides and I call “alert” like I would in trial. We’re doing pretty good with that too, but I did call a false alert once.