Ep. 445: Houndations - How to Truly Understand Your Dog's Sniffer to be a Better Trainer and Owner
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This week, Tony takes a deep dive into the olfactory capabilities of our dogs, and explains how that knowledge not only helps us be better trainers, but also allows us to give our dogs better lives.
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| 0:45.2 | Hey, everybody. theories listen on spotify or wherever you get your podcasts hey everyone welcome to the how foundations podcast i'm your host tony peterson and this episode is all about understanding how good our dogs noses really are and how they use them |
| 0:50.9 | and how we can make sure that once we understand that, we can be better trainers |
| 0:55.5 | and just better dog owners. If you talk to, I don't know, literally any dog owner anywhere, |
| 1:03.0 | or at least bird dog owner, you'll probably hear them talk about their dogs having a really good |
| 1:07.4 | nose. I used to think that was a thing. Like, you know, some dogs have a good |
| 1:12.2 | nose and some dogs don't. Now I think I was mostly wrong. I would bet that the worst dog |
| 1:17.0 | nose out there isn't too shabby and that the dogs we think have bad noses mostly just don't know |
| 1:22.1 | what they're doing or care about what they are doing. Now, while it's cool to think about how they |
| 1:27.3 | view the world through their sniffers, |
| 1:29.3 | understanding how good they really are is important to training and just general dog |
| 1:32.7 | ownership. |
| 1:33.6 | That's what I'm going to talk about right now. |
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