Leah Gangelhoff is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed and a Certified Behavior Consultant-Canine – Knowledge Assessed. She owns & operates Flint Hill K-9 Training, LLC serving the Greater Birmingham, AL area. Leah has owned and operated her own canine training and behavior business since 2002, during which time she has developed hundreds of private comprehensive education courses for dogs and their owners for puppy, obedience, and serious behavior issues of all kinds, specializing in fear and aggression. While living in Los Angeles, Leah trained in narcotics detection with NACSW™ co-founders Ron Gaunt and Amy Herot for several years before the activity and sport of K9 Nose Work® was born.

Leah became involved in K9 Nose Work® in 2010 and is a Senior Faculty Member at the National Association of Canine Scent Work (NACSW™) and a Certified Nose Work Instructor (CNWI), both since 2011. She is an NACSW™ Trial Judge since 2011, a past Trial Certifying Official 2011-2023 and past Supervising Certifying Official. She has also developed and presented over 50 workshops and seminars nationally and internationally on a variety of topics in K9 Nose Work®. As a Senior Faculty Member she has collaborated with Founders and Faculty to create and teach Continuing Education courses for Certified Nose Work Instructors and has personally developed and taught Continuing Education webinars for NACSW™ Certified Nose Work Instructors (CNWI) and Certifying Officials (COs). 

Leah has had the honor of being invited by Dogs of Course Camp Director, Dana Crevling, and K9 Nose Work® Founders to teach at over 32 K9 Nose Work® Training Camps since 2011. She currently specializes in teaching K9 Nose Work® Private Coaching Groups, Clinics, and Workshops nationally and internationally in the sport of K9 Nose Work® as well as group classes to a small group of students locally.  She has over 1000 hours of professional narcotics detection training with a large group of dogs prior to the birth of nose work as a pet dog sport, with mentors Ron Gaunt and Amy Herot and with Rodney Spicer/Gold Coast K-9 from 2004-2006. Leah has personally passed professional detection certifications (both written and search tests) in narcotics detection (POST standards) with Evolution K9 in northern California and with the Oxnard Police Department separately with two different dogs (German Shepherd and Papillon, probably the first and only in narcotics detection).

Leah has trained and trialed her own dogs in K9 Nose Work®, Konner, a German Shepherd, all the way up through the NACSW™ Summit Division for Elite Champion teams. Leah and Konner competed in five Summit Trials and achieved the highest title possible in K9 Nose Work®, a Summit title, placing 2nd Overall with pronounced designations and first and second placements in many Summit trial searches. Leah earned an NW3 Elite with her Belgian shepherd, Zephyr, placing 1st, 1st, and 2nd Overall with Pronounced ribbons at those trials. With her current two dogs, Leah has earned an NW3 Elite, placing 2nd Overall with a Pronounced ribbon and an ELT-2, with her Chihuahua mix shelter dog, Bruno Mars. She and her young cattle dog mix, Butterbean, achieved their NW1 placing  1st Overall with a Pronounced ribbon, 1st Overall at NW2, 1st Overall at NW3 and 1st Overall for their NW3-Elite, and an ELT-2.

Leah’s passion is helping Nose Work Enthusiasts and their dogs enrich their relationships and their overall Nose Work experience and teamwork!

LEARN WITH LEAH

Below you will find the online courses, seminars, webinars, eBooks, video reviews and private video consultation services Leah offers through Scent Work University.