Dog Talk With Julie

Dog Talk With Julie I'm a certified nose work instructor with the National Association of Canine Scent Work.

A great week to graduate! Let’s salute our Introduction to Nose Work (2) handlers and dogs who completed class this week...
04/18/2025

A great week to graduate! Let’s salute our Introduction to Nose Work (2) handlers and dogs who completed class this week. Here’s Hannah with Roger, Mike and Lucy, and Jennifer with Judd. They all did really well, even with suspended hides and almost inaccessible hides. And we celebrated that everyone finished a tough exterior search with no pees in the search area!

Graduation time! Congratulations to our Introduction to Odor teams, Jennifer with Arlo, Laura and Charlotte, and Elizabe...
03/29/2025

Graduation time! Congratulations to our Introduction to Odor teams, Jennifer with Arlo, Laura and Charlotte, and Elizabeth and Buddy. (Not pictured, Amy and Bosch)

Don't forget, Buddy the Boxer is available for adoption through Rockin' P Rescue, Inc. - he loves loves loves nose work, people and other dogs!

This week's advanced class practiced inaccessible hides. Here's big Timmy and little Tulip working odor to get as close ...
02/15/2025

This week's advanced class practiced inaccessible hides. Here's big Timmy and little Tulip working odor to get as close as possible to source!

New nose work class today, and here's a few pics of our other great dogs and handlers. All these dogs totally remembered...
02/06/2025

New nose work class today, and here's a few pics of our other great dogs and handlers. All these dogs totally remembered the searching game and had a great time getting to spend time with their owners. Way to go Arlo, Charlotte and Bosch!

Nose work class today! This week was a review since these dogs haven't been in class for over six months. What a great j...
02/06/2025

Nose work class today! This week was a review since these dogs haven't been in class for over six months. What a great job rescue dog Buddy did with his handler and Rockin' P Rescue, Inc. Director Angie Persch. Look at the eye contact at the search start line. He was so confident and just had a blast, remembering that boxes and objects pay. Nice job Buddy! We need to find you a home with someone who loves to have fun with their dog.

Hi all, I hope you had a great holiday season and survived last week's snow, too! I am fully recovered from my knee repl...
01/13/2025

Hi all, I hope you had a great holiday season and survived last week's snow, too! I am fully recovered from my knee replacement surgery and looking forward to starting new nose work classes. I have some names on a wait list and I will be contacting folks in the next week to see who is still interested. Also feel free to PM me if you would like to get into a new Intro class. For my current students, I'll be reaching out to you as well to start scheduling the next class.

Picture of Sky chasing JD in the snow last week. OMG zoomies in the snow!

A quick and happy update: Wednesday I had a manipulation under anesthesia to break up the scar tissue in my left knee po...
09/29/2024

A quick and happy update: Wednesday I had a manipulation under anesthesia to break up the scar tissue in my left knee post-total knee replacement. Before that, I couldn't bend it beyond 85 degrees. Today I am up to 109 degrees and much more optimistic about my recovery. I have a CPM (continuous passive motion) machine to help keep it flexing. Here's JD, always the trooper, keeping me company as I use it!

Hi, yesterday was my 8 weeks post-total knee replacement check in with my doctor. Since I lost a number of weeks in the ...
09/10/2024

Hi, yesterday was my 8 weeks post-total knee replacement check in with my doctor. Since I lost a number of weeks in the brace protecting the torn patellar tendon, I am having a hard time getting flexibility back in the knee. I've managed to get to 80 degrees twice in my PT sessions, after hanging a weight on the lower leg and suspending it for 5 minutes (serious ouch). 90 degrees is the real minimum for regular daily living, and 110-120 degrees is more ideal (think going up and down stairs, getting into a car, etc.)

My doctor wants me to do 2 more weeks of really hard PT to see how much more flex I can achieve. If it's still not great, he wants to do a "manipulation under anesthesia" where he moves the leg around to break up the scar tissue. (I'm betting after the anesthesia wears off, another serious ouch.)

Thanks for thinking of me during this yucky recovery. I am still optimistic I can start offering some nose work classes in October. JD and Sky have been real champs. They haven't had a walk in 2 months and they still have their usual upbeat personalities and make me laugh when I need it badly. Here they are cheering me on when I do my PT at home.

My big boy JD came from Pell City Animal Control! Lots of great doggos looking for homes.
09/05/2024

My big boy JD came from Pell City Animal Control! Lots of great doggos looking for homes.

On July 15 I went in for a total left knee replacement. Since I had my right knee done three years ago I thought I knew ...
08/06/2024

On July 15 I went in for a total left knee replacement. Since I had my right knee done three years ago I thought I knew what to expect. This one would be pretty smooth sailing, and I'd be back in time to offer nose work classes the beginning of October.

Wrinkle in the plan – I had a partial patellar tendon tear during the operation. When I woke up I had this huge knee brace on, to keep me from flexing any more than 50 degrees. The tendon needs time to heal, which is slowing down my overall recovery. Saw the doctor today and I am doing well. Over the next three weeks I can extend my flexibility to 90 degrees. I can start wearing the brace part time instead of full time.

I'm not sure how this will affect my timeline for recovery, but I wanted my friends and students to know that I haven't disappeared totally or forever. I am determined to get better. My goals – be able to stand/walk long enough to prepare for a class, teach a class and clean up after class. And be able to walk my dogs, one at a time, for about 30 minutes each. And be less of a burden and more of a help to Tom, who has his own knee and back issues!

The dogs have been wonderful at adapting to their temporary new normal, which means mostly sleeping, eating, and going out in the back yard. JD usually lies down on the bed with me for moral support when I'm doing my PT exercises. Sky walks next to me when I do laps around the house with my walker. It's actually pretty cute!

Looking forward to steady improvements over time...

Sharing from another drop in class. One drill was to proof the dogs off tins on the x-pen. Both Cheyenne and Chip did a ...
07/13/2024

Sharing from another drop in class. One drill was to proof the dogs off tins on the x-pen. Both Cheyenne and Chip did a great job of finding the hide. In a later search, Buddy had no trouble figuring out that a blue wagon is a great place to hide birch odor!

Buddy is available for adoption with Rockin' P Rescue, Inc. in Jacksonville AL. He's on birch, anise and clove odor. What Buddy may lack in focus, he more than makes up for in his joyful approach to nose work, and life!

Here's Hulk and Stephanie at a recent drop in class. Hulk nailed the chair hide and gently got up on his hind legs to re...
07/12/2024

Here's Hulk and Stephanie at a recent drop in class. Hulk nailed the chair hide and gently got up on his hind legs to reach the window sill hide. And look at him checking the vehicle seams. Nice job Hulk!

Congratulations to this week's graduates! This great group completed their first six-week session, Introduction to Nose ...
06/13/2024

Congratulations to this week's graduates! This great group completed their first six-week session, Introduction to Nose Work (1). Give a shout out to Hannah and Roger, Jennifer with Judd, and Monica and Chaos. And yes, Hannah finished the class with a cast on her foot. Just another testament to nose work's flexibility to accommodate dogs or handlers of differing abilities. And to Hannah's positive attitude!

Another graduation! Thursday night's Introduction to Odor class celebrated their success. Say congratulations to Stepha...
05/18/2024

Another graduation! Thursday night's Introduction to Odor class celebrated their success. Say congratulations to Stephanie with Hulk, Debra and Cheyenne, and Julie with Sky.

(Yep, teacher's dog...it was great for Sky to be in class with Hulk and Cheyenne - they enjoyed hanging out in the crate room when they weren't working!)

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