Nosework Dogs

14/08/2024

Nosework Dogs ran a bronze, silver and gold trial Scent Ops trial today at Dauntseys School. I would like to thank Rosie Reid and Carole Harris for judging gold and helping throughout the day and all the lovely competitors that make these days such fun.

Gold results
Marie Poole & Margo 99
Bev Hoddinott & Delilah 82
Peter Tuck & Minnie 81
Marney Wells & Kipper 79
Ann Douglas & Kenzie 78
Jan Martin & Mattie 77

Silver results Judge Marie Poole
Peter Tuck & Minnie 97
Rosie Reid & Slinkydog 77
Karen Griggs & Edith 74
Barbara Oldham & Prue 72
Kate Betts & Pip 70
Bev Hoddinott & Mortimer 58

Bronze results Judge Marie Poole

Kate Betts & Pip 98
Jan Martin & Amber 97
Vee Garner Richardson & Jasmine 95
Marney Wells & Chutney 95
Doreen Jevons & Maya 95
Barbara Oldham & Prue 91

08/08/2024

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A few spaces available on PM workshop on 18th September. Arable farm so no livestock. SN15 4DX

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07/08/2024

Some very quiet bad language in this! When the dogs nose knows best. I try to work my dog in a search bubble around me. As one of my clients said "she definitely popped your bubble!"

06/08/2024

https://youtu.be/luJkHcNeiDw?si=kd_fJ9DqAR-CwHIB

Interesting video of dog working a blind high hide. Great commitment from the dog, took him a long time to work it out and interesting how far the odour drifts.

31/07/2024

I have been in Cornwall this week running workshops and 121 training for Hannah Crook of Paws-itive dog training. It was a great week working with Hannah’s wonderful clients. Hannah is also a very talented photographer who I think has captured the German Mouse Hound qualities of Margo beautifully.

25/07/2024

The things we do when we need one last badge in excellent and you have already had one false alert!

20/07/2024

Nosework dogs held a small, entry Vehicle focus trial today. It was judged by Rosie Reid, thank you Rosie. All the dogs achieved badges and it saw my Roger able to stage up to enhanced and Peter Tuck and Minnie winning out of entry and going up to enhanced.

15/07/2024

I think Margo has to take responsibility for starting this fight!

14/07/2024

How busy the Nosework Dogs family have been this weekend whilst I have been off enjoying myself. Vee and the sweet Jasmine winning a foundation trial and levelling up. Doreen and Maya gaining all three badges at foundation and also levelling up to pre entry.
Carol and Olaf D McFloof also levelled up to entry this weekend.
And Rosie and the littlest legs of a superstar Slinkydog won an enhanced. I am constantly in awe of what these little dogs can achieve.

14/07/2024

What a wonderful weekend of learning for me with conservation K9 consultancy, so many new ideas. I also loved putting Margo into a situation where she eventually felt really strong and proud of herself. Such a clever dog.

09/07/2024

Well done to Ann & Kenzie who today won out of NNA excellent and are now an elite team and were awarded a synergy too!

28/06/2024

Scentops - Gold,Silver (full) and Bronze (full) 14th August. At SN10 4HE

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26/06/2024

Perfect evening! Dogs, pig, goat, fire and a selection test!

16/06/2024

Well done Sara and Meg on achieving Scentwork UK level 8. Clever girls!

15/06/2024

This video from Nikki Thorpe brings me a great deal of joy to see my dog having so much fun sniffing!

30/05/2024

Nosework Dogs held a Gold ScentOps trial at a wonderful school venue on 29th May 2024. Rosie Reid and Sally Miller judged, thank you very much. I will put a video of the area in the comments and Rosie will add a judges report too.
The results were
1st Marie Poole & Margo 99 points
2nd Pete & Minnie 97 points
3rd Bev & Delilah 97 points
4th Marney Wells & Kipper 91 points
5th Vee Garner Richardson & Murphy 86 points
6th Ann Douglas & Kenzie 84 points
Judges report

Judges Report - Scentops Gold

I was delighted to have been asked to judge by Nosework Dogs. We were spoiled with the venue and I was given a lovely Gold area. Some competitors were a bit daunted by the size of the area but it was a perimeter search and the open spaces need not be searched so when they were going round it every dog got round at least once with many overlapping areas.

I picked a variety of different areas, textures and placements to give a mixture of challenges and types of hides to find to keep it interesting. The sun shone (a bit too much at times!) but the hides remained in the shade thanks to the position of the buildings surrounding (completely unplanned!)

All dogs showed interest on the underside of the middle table tennis table and it was great to see handlers recognise the interest, double check it and move on when their dogs dismissed it.

One dog very kindly committed to burying himself deep in the hedges to ensure the area was clear of every type of ball imaginable! (We had no idea they were in there!)

Hide 1 was placed on a stone by the base of a tree. Next to this tree was a long line of sinks and quite a few handlers blocked the odour by putting themselves close to their dogs searching the sinks. Dogs picked this odour up quickly as it was close to the start and it drew them across from the first couple of meters of the search area. This hide encouraged handlers to trust their dog and look beyond the ‘obvious’ places a hide could be eg the long line of sinks. There was fab problem solving from the dogs to locate this hide when working into it.

Hide 2 was on the bracket of a drainpipe in an alcove. Whichever way the handlers tasked into the alcove the dogs found this hide fairly quickly. I’d designed it to be the second hide the dogs found but actually ‘in play’ most handlers went the other way round and found it last. It just goes to show how different plans can be!

Hide 3 was a high hide on the underside of a flat door handle towards the far end of the search. There were steps, a grit container, another door and a pipe nearby so when dogs were in odour it encouraged handlers to ensure each item was checked. Even the littlest doggo picked this odour up and worked to source, indicating beautifully below it. It was brilliant to see the dogs working this one out.

Well done everyone it was great to see you all tackle the Gold well!

29/05/2024

Nosework Dogs held a silver ScentOps at a lovely School venue on 29th May 2024. Judges were Marie Poole with Raith Miller (trainee judge) also assisting. The results were
1st Bev Hoddinott & Morty 100
2nd Ros Kellow & Chrisan Clarenza 99
3rd Marney Wells & Mustard 98
4th Kate Betts & Pip 94
5th Peter Tuck & Minnie 91
6th Hilary Denyer & Drusie 90

The area was a large L shape with teams starting in the middle of the L. The hides were on the back of some steps and on a piece of wooden cladding on a wall. The step hide required teams to push right out to the edge of the search. The cladding was placed to see if handler would work the dogs in to that area after coming off the edge of the paving and near the bushes. Nearly all the dogs got both hides. Most teams starting by working the wall opposite the steps. The odour seemed to be blowing across and it was great to see a few handlers recognise the early interest and allow the dogs to pull them across to the odour. It was also interesting to see how the dogs worked this hide to source, some from the steps, some from the front but all keeping going until they were convinced they were at source. There was some really effective search patterns and again some committed dog driven searching which I love to see. The hide on the cladding did see some dogs missing the area as they came off the kerb near the bushes but often the handlers worked them back towards the corner, recognising that they had missed the area. A high standard demonstrated across all teams in a very close competition.

29/05/2024

Nosework Dogs held a bronze ScentOps trial at a wonderful school location today, 29th May.
The results were
1st Marney & Chutney 100
2nd Vee & Jasmine 99 (1min 4s)
3rd Kate & Pip 99 (2 min 50s)
4th Rosie & Tide 98
5th Carole & Olaf 90
6th Sally & Exley 85

The search area was a long corridor with doors leading off it. This was a fairly straightforward area and I was hoping it would give the teams a chance to show off their skills such as indication, area coverage etc. All the teams got both hides. Most deductions were for poor area coverage with a few dogs rushing the start and handlers not getting the early hide until they had to go around a second time. The main positives were these novice teams showing solid indications, some wonderful independant searching and the beginnings of beautiful flow. My advice to most teams would be breathe, enjoy, you are here to have fun!

25/05/2024

Well done to Sara Hutchings and Meg who are doing wonderfully well with a second place in SWUK level 7. 🙌 🙌