Westcoast Sport Dogs

11/08/2024

After countless hours of studying, assignments, lectures, quizzes, case studies, lab work and a final exam, (with a few panic attacks thrown in for good measure)-I am now a university credentialed Canine Strength & Conditioning Coach 💪🤓

05/08/2024

✨️Emails have been sent out with details regarding the August mini workshops!✨️

Lost Item Recovery-suitable for new and experienced teams.

Shed Hunting-dogs must have a partial or full retrieve to participate.

Mantrailing-teams must have completed an intro to sign up.

If you didn't get an email and would like the full details, let me know!

26/07/2024

➡️Payment requests & waitlist info have been sent out for the Sept 14th Sporting Detection Dogs Association trial!

23/07/2024

Save the dates!!

I've secured another awesome location for some mini workshops!

There will be separate sign ups for each of these and the only pre req is that teams must have completed an intro workshop/class for the sport.

If you'd like to know more & be notified when registration opens, let me know!

22/07/2024

🔸️We have 5 intro level classes starting in August! 🔸️

🦌Shed Hunt will be held in Aldergrove
Time: 6pm & 7:15pm
Start dates: August 1st & August 6th

🐾Mantrailing will be held in Abbotsford
Time: 7:15pm
Start date: August 7th

Emails will be going out shortly to those on my mailing list!

08/07/2024

What a bunch of troopers these teams were 😍

34 degrees out and windy but all the dogs & handlers were ready to work every time it was their turn! The conditions made it super challenging, and every team had slightly different things that needed to be worked on but by the end of the day, every single team made huge progress!

Some of the things we worked on:
-arousal levels before trailing
-blind trails
-15+ minute aged trails
-surface changes
-doorway indications and communication
-target person i.d in a group of people
-interior & exterior trails
-trailing behaviour and body language
-post trail rewards from the handler

So proud of all these teams!!!

04/07/2024

Learning never stops!

Shout out to Georgia K9 National Training Center, LLC & Tactical Tracker Teams K9 Corps for their super informative courses 🤓

02/07/2024

⭐️We have a couple spots available for this weekend's mantrailing workshop!⭐️

This workshop is suitable for any team that's completed my intro course or progression sessions as I adapt the challenges to suit the team working 😁
There's even two teams who are doing this workshop a second time!

Any questions, send me a message or email!

01/07/2024

To those who attended Westcoast Sport Dogs Mantrailing workshop June 16th - The proofs are available for view! Please keep in mind that these are PROOFS and not polished photographs. Many of the indoor proofs require colour correction due to the lighting.

https://leanne-whynot-photography.client-gallery.com/gallery/mantrailing-june-16-2024

Photographs are $10/Singles, $30/5 photos, $40/10 photos, or I offer bulk pricing. Purchasing is by e-transfer.

Please select your favourites (click the heart symbol on picture) to create a personal gallery. To view the gallery, click the heart, with the number of photos you have selected, in the top right corner of the screen. When you've selected the proofs you'd like to purchase (and to be edited), click the "Alert Photographer" button to send me a message. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to message me on here or email [email protected] and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. (A quick note that I am photographing a 3 day event this weekend so I may not respond until Tuesday, sorry!)

27/06/2024

Advanced Sport Detection teams! I made a few changes to the July schedule-July 11th & 18th's location has been moved to July 10th & 17th (still in Chilliwack), and I added two dates July 4th & 25th (regular Langley location!).

26/06/2024

A lovely new group of teams starting their Sport Detection journey! I'm looking forward to watching them progress 😁
*Not pictured: Velky & Kyle 🐾

22/06/2024

20/06/2024

✨️Some photos of the mantrailing teams in action at the Advanced Skills workshop that was held last weekend!✨️

Some of the things we worked on:
-15+ min aged trails
-blind trails
-elevation changes
-surfaces changes
-doorway indications
-target person indications
-learning the difference between when their dog is trailing vs just moving forward
-how to help when the dog loses the trail
-a variety of scent articles

It was a super fun day!

➡️The next Advanced Skills workshop is being held on July 7th from 9am-3pm! Registration has been emailed out to those on the mailing list. If you have questions about if you think your team is suitable for this, please email me & I'll let you know⬅️

19/06/2024

"Definitely NOT my target person"-Jude, probably 🙅‍♀️

17/06/2024

✨️ We are now approved to host North American Sport Dog Association trials!! ✨️

11/06/2024

We ended up qualifying and moving on from the Semi Finals to the Final/Champion round in three classes-Lost Item, Urban Locating, and Trailing & Locating!

Unfortunately the search areas for Urban & Lost were in prairie dog town and I lost my dog before we even got to the search areas 🤦‍♀️ After 5 days of trialing, she had enough of inaccessible rodents and I don't blame her.

We've only been competing in this sport for a year and it's taken that whole time to get to a point where Z's comfortable searching in all sorts of environments with unknown people around.

Due to that, I had zero expectations for this event so for us to move all the way to the last round, competing against North America's top dogs, I am over the moon with how my young dog did. This dog worked her heart out for me & tried her best 🥹

Day 1 was the Lost Item & Urban Challenge Games tournament where we were entered in 18 searches but ended up doing 16. She rocked these and earned multiple placements, two titles and a 4th place overall in Lost Item.

Day 2 was Showcase where we qualified in both our Trailing searches and placed 3rd, moving us to the Invitationals in that class.

Day 3 & 4 were Invitationals where we had 8 searches and we qualified in all four classes, with multiple placements, moving us to the Semi Finals.

Day 5 was the Semi Finals in the morning where we did 4 searches, and we qualified in three classes, then the Champion rounds in the afternoon.

So much fun and learning happened these past 5 days but I'm definitely looking forward to going home & returning to my regular routine, and maybe eating a vegetable or two 🤣🥦

10/06/2024

No matter what happens today, I am so proud of us.

We are advancing to the semi finals for the North American Sport Dog Association's Invitationals and Tziloco is the only dog to qualify in ALL FOUR CLASSES 🥹

We've been having such a blast together and I know this week will be something I'll always remember ❤️

03/06/2024

We are heading to Alberta to compete in North American Sport Dog Association's Invitationals!

We'll be busy almost every day as we're competing in the pre trial tournament (Lost Item Games & Urban Locating Games), Trailing & Locating for Showcase, and then Urban Locating, Shed Dog & Lost Item for Invitationals!

I'll have one day where we aren't competing so we'll be exploring and I plan to send out the details to everyone who's registered for the Advanced Mantrailing workshop that day as well 😊

I'll be responding to messages and emails when I can but cell service is spotty at the trial site and post trial time is spent doing decompression stuff with my girlie ❤️

13/05/2024

➡️A registration email has gone out for my Level 1 Sport Detection classes that start in June!

If you didn't receive it, let me know!

08/05/2024

I remember when Deanna & Boston came to me 3 years ago, ready to start their journey into the world of scent sport training.

Boston was young (a year old I believe 🤔) and was a displaying common adolescent GSD behaviours. Meaning, everyone and everything was suspicious 👀.
I'm pretty sure he barked at me every class for 6 months straight 🤣.

It's taken time to get to this point, working on building (and maintaining!) confidence but look at them now! Crushin' trials, getting a perfect score and earning their Sporting Detection Dog Association Champion title 🎖

Proud is an understatement 🥹❤️

05/05/2024

Friday's trailing teams handled their challenges with ease 🔥

They had surface changes during the trail (concrete, gravel, grass, mud!), some pretty high temps (it was 23 degrees Celsius & really muggy), long distance trails, discriminating between fresh vs aged trails from a trail layer, and off leash dogs.

Looking forward to seeing how all the teams do at today's progression session too 😍

01/05/2024

This is a workshop for anyone who's completed my Intro To Mantrailing workshop!

The event will be approx 5 hours including a short lunch break! We'll be working on things like indications, blind trails, aged trails, trails where the missing person is unknown to the dog & handler team, and more!

This will be held at a private venue in Chilliwack that allows me to set up specific teaching puzzles without unintended distractions 😁

We'll also have a photographer on site to take photos of you & your dog working together 😍

Registration date and other details will be released asap!

28/04/2024

👉Advanced mantrailing teams!

Check your email tonight for a preview of the May & June progression schedule 👀

Registration will open Monday evening at 8pm.

27/04/2024

Super proud of how these trailing teams all handled the extreme weather conditions today! It poured rain the entire time and the dogs had to work hard to air scent as the trails all got washed away. We also threw in a variety of articles to take scent from-hair brushes, pens, keys, shoes, hair clips & water bottles. Well done everyone!

23/04/2024

This was so fun! Two weeks ago we set up some scenarios where the trail layers were inaccessible to the dogs. Every dog worked this slightly differently and depending on the dog, we either marked at the initial sign of elevated odour behaviour or we allowed them to work it a bit more (jumping up on the side of the playground). We also varied the rewards-either from the handler or the trail layer throwing their toy/treat! I ran this with Z first just to get an idea of what it would look like & she showed a beautiful combo of ground tracking & air scenting 💪 She also had a huge change of behaviour at the start of the trail when she spins around & heads off in the direction of the target person 😍

20/04/2024

Info for the Lost Item Recovery & Shed Dog workshops for April 20th have been emailed out‼️

Check junk/spam if you didn't receive anything as they contain important info regarding what to bring‼️

12/04/2024

For those who are interested in ordering Westcoast items, here is the link! There are lots of different colors and styles to choose from. You can also customize your clothing so if you want to add "Team Fluffy", "Shed Hunting Dog" or "Mantrailing Team" or whatever you want, you can 😁

‼️Everything is 25% off right now with the coupon code on the site!‼️

**Note: if you click on the "customize tool" section, it has way more options for product!**

Westcoast Sport Dogs Logo? ⭐ Westcoast Sport Dogs Logo ❗ Westcoast Sport Dogs Logo

12/04/2024

Interested in winning some Westcoast gear?!

For the month of April, past & current students who leave a Facebook review will be entered in a draw to win one of three prize options-a hat, a tshirt, or a sweatshirt.

Two winners total. Draw will take place on May 1st 😁

05/04/2024

I have some exciting news!!

‼️Westcoast Detection Dogs is now Westcoast Sport Dogs‼️

Why the name change?!?

Welllll because for the last year I've been taking courses through North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine to become a Certified Canine Strength & Conditioning Coach. I have passed everything so far and am now studying to write my certifying exam. Once that's done then, on top of all the scent sports I offer, I will also be offering a variety of fitness based classes 😊

I have some sport specific programs I'll be creating plus general fitness for healthy adult dogs, as well as fitness for puppies & seniors.

My plan is to offer group sessions and of course private sessions for dogs that aren't comfortable working in group environments!

On top of that, I am also working on my instructor certification through the International Dog Parkour Association so I will soon be offering dog parkour classes too 😁

For those that aren't familiar with dog parkour, it's a challenging, but fun, physical activity in which the dogs learn to interact with their environment. Just like in the human version, in dog parkour we work on ways to conquer obstacles, such as climbing, balancing, and jumping etc.

It's GREAT for building confidence and pairs perfectly with my fitness certification 👌

28/03/2024

Mantrailing teams!
More progression sessions have been added! Check your email 😁