11/17/2025
‘Games’ in SDDA refers to 4 fun games that test your speed and versatility in searching outside of the usual Container, Interior and Exterior contexts. Any of the 3 official odours (wintergreen, pine and red thyme) can be used - this video is Leeloo’s Speed run. In Speed, you have 60 seconds to find between 2-4 odours, while avoiding 2-4 distractors. The amount of hides is not known to the handler - you and your dog need to correctly identify all of the hides and call “Done!” before the timer runs out. I realized very quickly that we wouldn’t have time to reward along the way - we cleared the search in 54 seconds 🥵
This was one of 4 Games Qs Leeloo got on Friday - the only dog to qualify in all their runs! On 3 legs! She also got her Aerial (suspended hides), Distance (sending the dog away off leash while the handler stays in their marked area) and Teams (2-5 hides, 2 dogs searching).
Our Teams search was nothing short of spectacular - alongside the beautiful Nova poodle and her handler Courtney, we strategically broke down the search area and I still have chills! We have been working together for a while, but our dogs have only searched together once and it was not glamorous 😅 in that moment, something clicked, and our girls absolutely rocked it.
This Games trial definitely goes down as one of my favourite scent experiences to date! Thanks to YQX Dog Sports for such a great time, and Jennie Murphy for the video 😁🐶
