General Scent Work Skills

There are general Scent Work skills all dog and handler teams will need to work on and perfect during their sniffing journeys.

These resources will help you and your dog master these skills!

General Scent Work Skills
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Trial Prep Program
Worth Waiting For: Leveraging Staging Areas to Maximize Performance Webinar Instructor Kayla Dever and Samantha Winslow When trialing, the staging areas can be an excellent way to ensure you and your dog are ready to tackle your next search. Learn how to more fully leverage your staging areas in this webinar.
Skills Beyond Odor
Puzzle Pieces of Scent Work eBook Instructor Dianna L. Santos In this eBook, we will lay out what the puzzle pieces are when it comes to Scent Work and provide some ideas on how we can ensure to spend the necessary time and attention on each.
Foundation Sniffing Program
Field Trip Training Suggestions eBook Instructor Dianna L. Santos Once a dog understands what the game of Scent Work is all about, it is time to embark on some field trip searches. This eBook is written to provide handlers with some ideas and suggestions on how they can design and run their field trip searches.
Advanced Topics Program
Training to Plan; Planning to Train Webinar Instructor Michael McManus Being thoughtful trainers is something all Scent Work handlers should strive for. In this webinar, we discuss how to go about building a training plan with our dog.
Intro to Odor Program
Exteriors and Vehicles with Birch Course Instructor Dianna L. Santos Your dog will learn to tackle two of the hardest search elements as they hunt for Birch.
Trial Prep Program
What to Do: Days After the Trial Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Opportunities abound in the days immediately after attending a trial. We discuss what these are and how to identify what will work best for you and your dog in this webinar.
Common Issues
Keeping Scent Work FUN! Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Scent Work should be your dog's FAVORITE activity! After all, it is celebrating their most impressive natural instinct. Yet, as we move up the levels, the game starts to morph into work and our dogs may find it to be less fun. Learn how you can keep this activity fun and engaging for them, no matter how challenging the searches become!
General Scent Work
What is a Purposeful Search Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie You've heard the importance of being purposeful when designing your searches. Learn what it means to be purposeful, how to plan your training even if you only have 10 minutes, how to quickly decide what you should do in an environment and more.
General Scent Work
Well-Rounded Sniffing Webinar Instructor Lori Timberlake In this webinar, Lori discusses ways handlers can keep their Scent Work training fresh, exciting and continuing to build skills for dog and handler alike.
Common Issues
The Floor is Lava Webinar Instructor Kayla Dever and Samantha Winslow Are slippery surfaces something your dog struggles with when tackling interior searches? Get solutions in this webinar!
Getting Started
Toys as Primary Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson Are you interested in using toys as your form of primary to get your dog started in Nosework? Learn toy play mechanics, toy rules, and how to set up your toy search to get the most out of the work with your dog.
Instructor Program
Teaching Mixed-Level Classes Seminar Module Instructor Michael McManus and Natalie McManus After teaching single level classes for years, Michael and Natalie shifted to offering mixed-level classes and never looked back. Learn about their journey and how they make it all work in this module.
Trial Prep Program
Trial Teamwork: The Handler's Role Webinar Instructor Michael McManus and Natalie McManus Do you know your role as the handler at trial? We sometimes think of ourselves as just a ride and a treat dispenser, but the handler's role is so much deeper and more important than that!
Trial Prep
You Can Do It Pup: Building Endurance and Stamina Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos To ensure our dogs can indeed be successful in their searches, we should take steps to build their endurance and stamina. We will discuss ways to do so in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Performance Redefined: Agility to Nosework Webinar Instructor Vicky Lovejoy Agility requires handler focus whereas Nosework demands an entirely different dynamic between dog and handler. In this webinar, learn how to help overcome these challenges and make for a smoother transition from agility to Nosework.
Proofing
Find Your Hide - Proofing for Food and Toys Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos The most common planned distractors found within Scent Work search areas are food and toy distractors. Proofing our dogs off these distractors is a key element to any training program. Learn how to do just that in this webinar.
Sniffy Fun
Winter Sniffy Fun Challenge eBook Instructor Dianna L. Santos While it is true that Scent Work is done in all sorts of weather, it can be difficult to come up with the inspiration to do so in the dead of winter! Never fear, the Winter Sniffy Fun Challenge eBook is here!
Sniffy Fun
Winter Sniffy Fun 3.0 Challenge eBook Instructor Dianna L. Santos Beat the winter blues by tackling these 36 unique challenges, each offer easier and challenging modifications as well as images and diagrams to get your creative juices flowing!
Trial Prep Program
Odor Puzzles: Training and Trial Prep Seminar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Have you ever wondered what all the odor puzzles your dog must be exposed to and learn to master are to be successful in Scent Work? Find out in this seminar!
Trial Prep Program
Influence of Dog's Reactivity on their Scent Work Training and Trialing Webinar Instructor Sue Sternberg Can a dog’s temperament qualities influence their performance at a Scent Work trial? Does a dog’s reactivity with other dogs affect their distractibility during searches? Sue will discuss this and more in this webinar!
Trial Prep Program
It's What’s Inside that Counts: A Study of Interior Searches Webinar Instructor Dana Zinn Interior searches can be tricky for many teams. Learn all the ins and outs, from hide placement to training and trialing Interiors with this webinar!
Live Webinar
The Handler's Role: Managing Behavioral Challenges Webinar Date February 16th at 4:30PM PT/5:30PM MT/6:30PM CT/7:30PM ET Instructor Nancy Reyes In this second entry for this three-part webinar series, learn practical, in-the-moment strategies to manage reactivity, anxiety, distractions, and movement/sensory challenges so searches stay safe, smooth, and productive.
Live Webinar
The Goal-Powered Search: Mastering Process & Outcome Goals to Achieve Success in Nose Work Webinar Date April 16th at 4:30PM PT/5:30PM MT/6:30PM CT/7:30PM ET Instructor Silke Wittig Learn the difference between process and outcome goals, how to identify meaningful goals that drive progress to make your training more efficient, measurable and successful in more ways than one in this information-packed webinar.
Live Webinar
But the Judge Said Webinar Date February 17th at 4:00PM PT/5:00PM MT/6:00PM CT/7:00PM ET Instructor Aleks Woodroffe Have you ever received a comment from a Judge after a search and felt proud? Confused? Deflated? Whether written on a scorecard or said in passing, judges sometimes can’t help but share their insights. This webinar focuses on how you can accept, understand, and possibly use those comments.
Foundation Sniffing Program
Perfect Patterns: Vehicles Course Instructor Michael McManus This is a comprehensive course for anyone interested in learning how to train vehicle searches for nosework competitions or enrichment.
Common Issues
Back to Foundations: Exteriors Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos It can be so easy to get swooped up into setting snazzy and flashy exterior searches but ensuring your dog has solid foundations is crucially important! Learn why and how to incorporate these foundation exercises into your routine with this webinar.
General Scent Work
Masterful Mazes Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Mazes can be an excellent tool in your Scent Work training toolbox! Learn the benefits of mazes, how you can leverage them and ideas to help inspire you to create your own in this webinar.
Sensitive Dogs
Be Brave: Using Scent Work to Build Confidence Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Scent Work is an amazing activity and we can leverage it to help our dogs build their confidence. Learn how in this webinar.
Foundation Sniffing Program
Rotate Your Skills Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Implementing a rotating skills training plan can ensure both you and your dog work on and develop the skills you need to be a successful sniffing team.
Common Issues
My Head Hurts: Dealing with Frustration Threshold in Scent Work Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Solving odor puzzles is hard! Many dogs will give up on challenging searches when they meet their frustration threshold. Learn how to help these dogs stick with the puzzle instead, even when their heads hurt.
Common Issues
You Can Do It Pup: Building Efficiency Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos When it comes to searching, one of our goals is for our dogs to be as efficient and effective as possible. Learn some exercises and approaches in this webinar to weave into your training sessions.
Learn About Odor
Odor Series Part 3: The Mystery of Strings and Triangles Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Learn how to work these two mystical odor puzzles of strings and triangles. What is happening? Why does your dog miss one consistently? How do you train these puzzles? What can you do as a handler? This webinar will answer all these questions and more.
Trial Prep Program
Why Stress is Good Webinar Instructor Michael McManus and Natalie McManus Dogs and handlers encounter stress both within and outside their searches. Learn how to better cope with this stress using targeted exercises meant for both ends of leash in this webinar.
Live Virtual Event
How Would You Train It: Vol 2 Virtual Event Date February 13th at 4:30PM PT/5:30PM MT/6:30PM CT/7:30PM ET Instructor Anita Ambani, Holly Bushard, Kayla Dever, Judith Guthrie, Jill Kovacevich, Michael McManus Hear from our experienced panel of speakers on how they would tackle three distinct scenarios. The discussion will include potential training solutions, ways to determine if progress was being made, whether modifications were warranted, which ones and why and so much more.
Common Issues
Conquering the Environment in Scent Work Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Does it feel as though it is you and your dog v. the environment in your searches? Learn how to better help your dog cope with what the environment throws at them.
Puppy Sniffing Program
Raising Your Scent Work Puppy Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Start your Scent Work puppy off right and understand what it takes to make a competitive dog from puppyhood on up with this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Develop Trial Mind: Decision Making in the Fire Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Scent Work trials are fraught with decisions the handler must make a moment's notice. Learn how you can do this without folding under the pressure with this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Barrier Training: What Is It and Why It Matters Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Barrier training can help our dogs better understand a variety of odor puzzles in all four search elements. Learn how you can leverage barrier training in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Pairing: Use to Prep for Trialing Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos In preparing to tackle a trial, you are wondering how you can build your dog's enthusiasm and clarity for the game. Learn how to leverage pairing to do this and more in this webinar.
General Scent Work
Video It! Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Let's face it: our memories when we are running our dog in training or at a trial are terrible! Filming our searches is the answer. Learn tips for how to film, equipment to use, technical tips, how to review your vidoes and much more.
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