So pleased to have this group back for their first week of SILVER!! 🐾🥈
🥈Biscuit
🥈Willow
🥈Buzz
🥈Laggy
🥈Marley
🥈FLYNN 🤭
🥈Woody
We transitioned the dogs onto our new scent: GUN OIL and started to build the foundations which will allow us to progress onto searches! But I didn’t manage to capture much on camera as we were too ingrained in the fun!
Good to have you back team! 🥈👏💪
Anyone else’s dog become more excited now that the weather is frosty and cold? ❄️🐾🌨️
There could be a few reasons behind that, but… here’s our favourite one…. 🤭
WILLOW & BISCUIT 🙌🏼🐾🥉
A throwback to November… (I’m a little behind on our social media posts…🤫🤣!)
Back in November, this dynamic duo were both making incredible progress with their vertical and blind searches, and managed to capture their efforts on camera!
Since then, they stepped it up even further, by mastering their searches with strong passive indications for pretty much every live article!!!!
The fun they had whilst training definitely paid off as just before Christmas, they were awarded with distinctions on their Bronze assessments! 👏👏👏
I can’t wait to see you both this Saturday when we welcome you back for SILVER! 🥈🐾
🎉 2024 SCENT DETECTION LEADERBOARD 🎉
What a year, from launching in January to signing off in December… I need to say a huge thank you to every student and supporter who helped make this year a sniffing success. I absolutely love this job, and that’s because of you!
So, I hope you will join me in congratulating our dogs on their speedy noses….
UK Sniffer Dog BRONZE
🥉3rd place - Katie and Marley
🥈2nd place - Leanne and Flynn
🥇1st place - Fran and Bertie 2 minutes 11s!!!
Out of a maximum of 8 minutes
UK Sniffer Dog SILVER
🥉3rd place - Helen and Maple
🥈2nd place - Alex and Honey
🥇1st place - Simone and Penny 2 minutes 30s!!!
Out of a maximum of 6 minutes
UK Sniffer Dog GOLD
🥉3rd place - Sally and Pippin
🥈2nd place - Clare and Frizzle
🥇1st place - Helen and Maple 3minutes 33s!!!
Out of a maximum of 11 minutes
For 2025, we’re gearing up to launch bigger and better courses to keep your pet dogs mentally enriched. From enhancing your current skills and mastering one key scent, to venturing into new disciplines to find your dog’s natural superpower.
Keep up the great work, team—I can’t wait to see more dogs soaring to the top of our next leaderboard!
Love, Maisie 💙
Mentally enriching all pet dogs through the fun of scent work!
#ScentDetectionDogs #TopDogs2024 #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork #UKSD #fundogclasses #scentdetection #dogtraining
GO FLYNN !!!🥉🐾
Flynn is currently taking our UK Sniffer Dog Bronze course; and he has already mastered his homework and shown some amazing passive indications!!!!
No biting, no retrieval, just a lovely sit at every live article! Now it’s time to build up the motivation.
Great work so far, well done team Flynn 👏🐾
Listen to the excitement in our voices 🤣
Scout’s performance in our Bronze class this morning deserves a very special shout-out. 👏🏼
He has been notorious for retrieving the hides for his owner, so this morning, we altered the training to teach him a new static indication. To keep him still and to combat his biting.
Even with some distractions, after 10-15 minutes he was marking his commitment with a sit, on his own without a command 👏🏼
Just needs some refinement but he is definitely Silver Level ready - well done Scout! 🥳
WE HAVE JUST SURPASSED 50 DOGS THAT HAVE COMPLETED OR ARE STILL UNDERGOING TRAINING WITH US 🎉
You may think that this is a small achievement but …
1. Our business has only been operating for 7 months!! 👶
2. Scent detection is still quite a “new” and undiscovered sport for most pet dog owners, so when we launched, we didn’t even know if scent detection was even something that owners in our local area would want!
3. We launched this business after seeing the benefits of scent detection with our own pet dog, (who at the time was a highly reactive, rescued Dutch Herder with arthritis! ) - Scent work bolted onto her existing training to build her confidence and provide an alterive form of exercise that wasn’t just physical.
Over the past 7 months, we have run our 6-week courses, day workshops and our increasingly popular private sessions… all of which have allowed us to meet you lovely humans and your companions.
I have enjoyed seeing every single one of our sniffer students acing every task, progressing each week and having proper quality time with their owners. 💙
I also want to give thanks to the lovely network of likeminded dog businesses that have been very supportive and welcoming of our presence! 🐾
We are still finding our feet but here’s to many more mentally enriched dogs! 🎉
#thankyou @followers
Group classes, I hope you are ready, our new stash items are about to put you to the test...😎😈
We had a very heartwarming day at Turners Hill Village Fete and Dog Show.
We want to share both the technical and the more simplistic Scentwork activities that we can all be doing with our pet dogs and with the whole family!
We would like to say a big hello to our new followers and those who have enquired about more dates already. 🫶🏼👋🏼
More info will be released this week after we have organised our current groups 🐾
I cannot wait to train with Stanley and Louise again this week.
Stanley has been taking our UK Sniffer Dog Bronze course from home. He can sometimes become very vocal and easily frustrated without a job to do, but when we start searching, he is clearly happy to get his nose down and work for his treats!
Over the past few weeks, we altered the tasks to make sure this is enjoyable for him: we have paired the scent, practiced his focusing skills and exposed him to gentle searches… now we can start to gently shape his indication! 🙌🏼👏🏼
With UK Sniffer Dogs, we will teach your dog to passively indicate in a way that is obvious to you that they have found the source of the target odour.
This not only helps you to identify the change in your dog’s body language, but it is also safer for them…
Retrieving our hides may look cute, but imagine that it was real contraband… we don’t want our dogs to put that in their in their mouths! 😅🤢
There is also a risk of our dogs swallowing or choking on our smaller hides, including our 0.5ml vials…
So instead, we train indications which will show you, the handler, the area(s) in which your dog has identified, and even the height of where the hide is placed! This is achievable for most dogs with practice and lots of praise.
I’d like to give a little shoutout to all of our clients for working hard on their indications, no matter which class or workshop you have been a part of. Watching your dogs indicate correctly has been just as enjoyable as watching them search. 😍👏
UK Sniffer Dogs
#uksd #ScentDetection #domorewithyourdog #dogclasses
All our teams deserve a shout out, but this time it’s for… Sally and Pippin!
Pip has been unstoppable, using his nose and his noggin to master the tasks every week.
But further to this, Pip’s confidence has soared!
During his UKSD Bronze training, Pip was his most confident by Sally’s side…..
Now however, Sally is able to go and hide the scent articles without any sweat from Pip! He is also going off on his own to investigate search areas, leaving Sally back at the start line!
We can’t take all the credit for this, Sally’s dedication to up-keeping his training has meant that she has practiced Pip’s sit stays around distractions and at distance, which is beneficial to life outside of Scentwork too!
Well done team Pip 💙 Sally Barney
