Scentventure Guide Justine

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Scentventure Guide Justine

Dog Trainer based in the North East England. Scentventure Guide and Mantrailing UK instructor.

28/10/2025

🧡Me and Alfs have been working on our Bold and Beloved badge for the last few months. It was created by Katie in memory of the wonderful Fifi, who sadly was said goodbye to a year ago today.

Bold and Beloved has really helped me navigate this year, especially when Alfs’ health looked so uncertain. When your dog’s health hits turbulence at 12, it hits differently. The fewer options available make us feel helpless. It’s been a beautiful reminder to live in the moment with our dogs. Every moment is special. Memento mori.

Thank you, Fifi, for everything you brought to Scentventure 🧡 Thank you, Katie, for creating such a special course that has truly shaped this year for us 🧡. In your pain from loss, you somehow created the most beautiful course that reminded us about the beauty of life.

Here’s Alfs getting a new gundog toy as part of Bold and Beloved yesterday 🧡☺️ No special occasions as such, but just a chance to remember that every day is special ☺️

23/10/2025

You may remember me telling you about Wilderness Explorers, where they’re adventures we have with our dogs and we earn patches in Club . Think scouts for dogs and their humans!

☕️ This week we earned our Pack and Pause, the idea being to just take a moment to slow down on our walks. This patch will be very special as it features Bella. Even before these patches existed, I did these pauses in a nod to Bella, who taught me and Alfs the beauty of stopping 😌

This pause also offered a great opportunity to see how far Alfs has come, just relaxing in the woods 🧡

I’ll be sure to show you the patch when it’s sewn onto the Wilderness Explorer blanket when it arrives. Maybe this one also needs to be a tattoo ☺️

18/10/2025

Oscar truly is going from strength to strength! 🌟 While I get to see a lot of plans coming together, it never gets old. He’s done so well that Oscar’s Mum and Dad’s homework is to find a busier walk!

Today on our street walks training , we worked on counter-conditioning, giving Oscar time to process his environment and learning, and showing the value of Scentventure fun on a walk. Oscar’s parents are very nearly there, but small tweaks will support further progress.📈

Here’s the star enjoying some Scentventure fun!🤩

12/10/2025

👑Lord Dogwood II, Scentventure CEO, left his stately self at the Dogwood gate 🤣🤣🤣

Look at his hilarious face! When he finds a lemon toy, you’d think it was an actual lemon with his “YAAAAAAAY I FOUND THE TOY” face🤣🍋

It’s an absolute joy to see Franco blossoming as he settles into family life. It was a proper family session yesterday, as Franco didn’t just bring his Mum, he also brought his Dad to show him his skills!

🤗The goal of yesterday was simply to have fun and put that impressive nose to good use. However, we also started to weave in Scentventure techniques that, while super fun, can really support some of the more serious goals like harness training and separation confidence.

Great work, guys! 💪 * curtsy to Lord Dogwood II of course * 🤣

11/10/2025

🤗A very exciting Scentventure Saturday as came to shadow! Katy’s been shadowing me for a few weeks on Sundays, so I couldn’t wait for her to meet the Saturday Scentventure gang.

Great work, Katy, you’re an absolute credit to Scentventure!

10/10/2025

💛 Today is World Mental Health Day.

It’s a great time to acknowledge that it can be really hard when our dogs have behaviour issues and how that can affect our mental health.

So often we talk about dogs being our whole world, but when our dogs have behavioural issues, it can affect our whole world:

🚶‍♀️ The walks that were supposed to be relaxing are now stressful.

😑 Family comments that make you feel like a failure

😔 Missing out on events we’d like to attend because our dogs would be effected

It’s not selfish to have these thoughts. Sadly, it’s not uncommon, and you can absolutely be the best dog parent and still feel like this.

In my sessions, there’s always a safe, understanding space for dogs and their humans. I focus on creating practical solutions that help both of you feel better, while remembering that support goes beyond just the training ☺️

Alfs is my happy place now. Beyond anything cool like Scentwork, this is my true goal for clients. Of course, Scentwork may be part of that journey!

07/10/2025

It’s no secret I love Scentwork… or if it is… how?! 😅🤣🤣

Of course, I love the actual Scentwork sessions, but I also love all the benefits it makes for me and Alfs in day to day life.

🐕‍🦺Loose lead walking

🗣️Recall

👀Engagement

🧡 Communication with me

🧘Building your dog’s ability to settle

and honestly the list goes on and on!

30/09/2025

Just honestly the best two days at 🧡

Earlier this year things weren’t looking great for Alfs, but thankfully we helped him turn the corner. From there, I set out on a mission for his summer of fun, and of course going back to College was high on the list.

At the time I wasn’t sure the timing would work out, as I had booked for Autumn. But Alfs has shown he is very much back… back to being Alfs 🥹🧡

We’ve done it, buddy. Something tells me you’re not planning on retiring from Scentwork any time soon, and we look forward to heading back to College hopefully soon😍

And of course plenty of Scentwork in the meantime!

A big thanks to everyone at the College for making mine and Alfs’ time just THE BEST 😘

29/09/2025

Having THE BEST time at murder mystery 😍

So far, with my detective skills, I think everyone is still a suspect 🤣🤣

Super proud of Alfs, flying the flag for golden oldies this year and proving that older dogs can still absolutely do Scentwork! I can’t wait to tell you all about Alfs soon 🐾

28/09/2025

👃Here’s Oscar and Laura smashing Tracking yesterday! Tracking has sooooo many benefits!

It brings all the usual benefits of Scentwork and also gives humans real life handling practice when their dog is motivated to move forward. Safe lead handling is such an important skill in behaviour training. Like how to let your dog move ahead and give more lead, and how to reel them in when needed for safety, such as near roads or when they are closer than they can comfortably handle to something that worries them, without it becoming a battle of frustration between dog and human.

It is also a fun activity to do on lead. The lead is the umbilical cord between you and your dog, and the secret is getting your dog to love it! 🐾

25/09/2025

🌟A great big well done to Margaret, Derek and Charlie, who recently passed their Introduction to Scentventure!💫

I’ve known Charlie for some time as they’re Club Dogwood members, and I’ve been eyeing up that nose because Charlie loves to use it 😂. I was very excited when Charlie and his humans signed up! We really put that nose to work with not only Scent Detection but also Tracking and Gundog training.

Charlie and his humans smashed every Scentwork challenge 😍 and Charlie clearly loved having a variety of Scentwork to get stuck into.

Margaret and Derek said:

“We have thoroughly enjoyed all of the sessions, and we have learned so much. We love the way you pick up on the smallest details and the way you explain them. Your patience is remarkable, too, and your knowledge of all things ‘Scent’ is amazing.” Thanks so much, my absolute pleasure . Loved our sessions🧡

I can’t wait to see Charlie in Level 1 Scentventure! Great job, Buddy, and of course his fabulous humans 🤩

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