{"id":5899,"date":"2025-03-12T09:43:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2025-03-12T09:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:47:56","slug":"what-is-early-scent-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/?p=5899","title":{"rendered":"What is Early Scent Introduction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Early scent introduction (ESI) is a program for puppies designed to enhance their ability to identify, and react to, specific scents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>nose awareness<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>confidence\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>scent identification<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ESI Process<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>From days 3-16, we introduce a strong scent to the puppy for brief intervals, and record the puppy\u2019s reaction. The reaction is considered to be&nbsp;<strong>positive<\/strong>&nbsp;when the puppy shows interest in the scent, moving toward it. A&nbsp;<strong>negative<\/strong>&nbsp;reaction is recorded when the puppy tries to get away from the scent. And finally, when a puppy is neither interested nor disinterested in the scent, this is a neutral reaction. The puppy\u2019s different reactions mean the potential for even&nbsp;<strong>better companion, service, and therapy dogs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early scent introduction (ESI) is a program for puppies designed to enhance their ability to identify, and react to, specific[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352,58],"tags":[40,22,91,12,15,18,34,54,498,7,499,317,492,267,8,99,478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5901,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions\/5901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}