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New to scent work? Wondering what we are referring to when we say “blind hide” or “converging odor?” Have a look, maybe it’s here!

DISCLAIMER: This is an ever evolving and developing list of common phrases that can be heard around the scent work community. It is NOT an official list, it does not contain official definitions, and in no way reflects a legal or final definition of terms. There may be several meanings for one term depending on where you are in the world or who you train with. References are provided where appropriate, useful, or when the information has been copied from another source.

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Alert

Blind (hide)

Blind with help

Boxes

Box game

Bracketing

Casting off

Casting on

Change of behavior (COB or behavior change)

Corner

Container search

Converging odor

Diffuse

Driving to source

Deep (hide)

Downwind

Dram

Elements

Element games

Elevated (hide)

Essential oil

Exterior search

False alert

Final response

Find

Focused drive

Focused response

Formal alert

Fringe

Handler

Harry Award

Hide

Inaccessible

Indication

Interior search

K9 Nose Work

Leeward

Lingering (odor)

Long line

Nose touch

NW1

NW2

NW3

NW3Elite

Odor

Odor box

Odor cone

Odor kit

ORT (odor recognition test)

Paw touch

Perimeter

Primary

Q-tip

Residual (odor)

Rewarding at source

Run Rabbit Run

Scent

Scent cone

Scent plume

Search

Search area

Search cue

Source

Sourcing

Swab

(At) Source

Timing

Timmy in the well

Threshold

Traffic lead

Training Aides

Trained Final Response

Trained Odor

Toy drive

Upwind

Vehicle search

Windward