Scent Work Across Texas

09/11/2024

We still have space left in the Tricks Workshop
on Saturday September 21
at Doggy Day Out in Pflugerville, TX

Georgeann Weisgerber has a fun day planned

sign up at www.scentworkacrosstexas.com/shop

09/04/2024

USCSS Novice and Intermediate Classic Trials + Games on Saturday November 9, 2024 at Happy Dog Sports in Leander TX are open for entry!

Lucky dog Events - All Level Variable Trial + Games Nov/Int/Adv - Nested & Sen/Mas - Nested Enter This TrialTrial Premium

08/23/2024

Entry is open for USCSS Trial being hosted by Brazos Valley Sniff Squad at the Caldwell Civic Center in Caldwell, TX
Novice Classic Trial plus 2 Games!

Lucky dog Events - All Level Variable Trial + Games Nov/Int/Adv - Nested & Sen/Mas - Nested Enter This TrialTrial Premium

07/05/2024

Ongoing K9 Nose Work classes with Michelle Munson
Scent Work Across Texas at
Doggy Day Out, 17808 Wilke Ridge Ln, Pflugerville TX

Available beginning August 2024:
Tues 1:30-2:30pm - 2 spots

Thurs 11-12pm - 1 spot

Please email [email protected] for details

06/09/2024

New Introduction to K9 Nose Work class will begin Tuesday September 10, 5:45-6:45pm at Doggy Day Out in Pflugerville TX

Sign up at www.scentworkacrosstexas.com

04/07/2024

USCSS Intermediate and Advanced Classic Trials are
OPEN!
Join us at Frank Fickett Boy Scout Center in Austin TX

www.uscaninescentsports.com

03/10/2024

SEMINAR / TRAINING DAYS - with JASON HENG
FRIDAY APRIL 5TH - 8:30AM & 12:30PM
@ DOGGY DAY OUT 17808 WILKE RIDGE LN, PFLUGERVILLE TX

REGISTER ONLINE http://www.hengten.com/nosework.html
AM Seminar - Competition Handling 8:30AM - 12:00 PM
Limited Working Spots - $95 per Team

Competition Handling – excelling at competitive environments. Necessary leash skills, on/off leash decisions and working out of challenges. We will cover two main themes; the most common leash skills – how to get better at executing them in completion, and how typical search environments cause competitors to miss hides or add time to dog problem solving a particular hide because of how we typically handle.

We will have a broad number of search setups to challenge each team’s leash skill – emphasizing typical leash skills; adding/removing slack, short/long lines, collar vs harness, changes on the leash while in motion, navigating obstacles, going back on leash, sensitivity/elasticity of dog, and more. In addition, exploring search environments necessarily force changes on the handler part – where the handlers are generally not aware of changes their handling style. We will cover how the search setup, changes how you handle and how to combat these unseen challenges so you don’t miss hides or cause the dog to search longer and harder to problem solve a hide.

PM Seminar - Multi-Hide Strategies 12:30PM - 4:00PM
Limited Working Spots - $95 per Team

Multi-hide Strategies – handling searches with multiple hides create a number of choices for teams, typically having us lean into strategies like search area coverage or patterns, re-rewarding, cues to moving on(“find another”), on/off leash decisions, walk-through planning. These strategies can result in thoughts of; “I got stuck an area”, “Maybe I should have gone on-leash”, “I think I left on hide behind”, “My dog wasn’t searching”, “my dog couldn’t lock it down”, “I ran out of time”, “I didn’t get to the whole area”, etc. These typical handler sayings highlight our difficulty in strategy changes required during the search rather than lamenting after.

We will push on these typical strategies– to establish some alternative “first principle” strategies for each team, focusing on what we know in each search to determine the best strategy. This doesn’t remove the need to pattern, re-reward or not, back a on/off leash decisions but it instead focuses the decision on the search you are IN – executing these first principle search strategies helps us focus on being present in each search and providing our best skills to that search.

Each team will have a broad multi hide search scenarios that will give the team practice making a strategy change. Our goal is to be saying, “I went back on leash and got the another hide”, “We got everywhere”, “My dog worked out of that distraction”, “I called finish with plenty of time”, “I found all the hides”.

K9 Nosework K9NW Scent Work Sport Detection

03/08/2024

The USCSS Trial Friday April 19 is Open!
Come join us at Gateway Church in Austin for
Novice Classic, Senior Classic and two games!

03/05/2024

Website has been updated...
Lots of fun trial opportunities added.
I will be working on premiums and finalizing details
for USCSS and NACSW fun!

visit

K9 Nose Work Group Classes Obedience and Rally Classes Trial and Event Hosting

01/09/2024

Signup is for both Saturday AND Sunday unless noted. You will receive an invoice from the Scent Work ATX Club AFTER the draw for working spots which must be paid to secure your spot. Be sure to READ the course description regarding qualifications for WORKING DOGS before signing up for a spot. Signin...

01/09/2024

AKC Scent Work ATX Club will be hosting a workshop on Saturday April 13 and Sunday April 14, 2024 in the Austin TX Area. Working spots will be awarded by Random Draw Monday January 15. The first draw will be for club members only and second draw will be done of all other entries.

You will be invoiced after the Draw on January 15.

Use this link to sign up
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0A4AA8AE2CA64-47077123-zinnsternberg

Dana Zinn and Sue Sternberg workshops:
The Dog-Driven Search - Part 1
This two-day workshop will provide valuable information about how we, as handlers, influence the search with our body movements, direction and pathways, and speed and body orientation. Sue and Dana will also discuss what we are communicating to our dogs from all of our “handler actions or inactions” throughout the search, and why we may be getting certain behaviors from our canine partners in trial that baffle us.
This workshop will include video footage from other dog sports and video submissions from those attending the workshop as auditors, to demonstrate deliberate and inadvertent communication between dogs and their handlers. Additionally, Dana will set up exercises to highlight handler movement and the dog’s response to better understand what our dogs are communicating “at each moment” and improve our productivity as handlers without diminishing drive and independence.
You will also be given specific handling tools to increase your ability to listen while simultaneously allowing the dog more freedom to make choices and hunt independently.
Sue and Dana deliver this workshop with humor, compassion and enthusiasm knowing that teams will leave with a new way of looking at the search and new tools to strengthen the handler/dog team through the long-term journey of this amazing game.

Signup is for both Saturday AND Sunday unless noted. You will receive an invoice from the Scent Work ATX Club AFTER the draw for working spots which must be paid to secure your spot. Be sure to READ the course description regarding qualifications for WORKING DOGS before signing up for a spot. Signin...

01/02/2024

Save the Date:

AKC Scent Work ATX Club will be hosting a workshop on Saturday April 13 and Sunday April 14, 2024 in the Austin TX Area

Dana Zinn and Sue Sternberg workshops:
The Dog-Driven Search - Part 1
This two-day workshop will provide valuable information about how we, as handlers, influence the search with our body movements, direction and pathways, and speed and body orientation. Sue and Dana will also discuss what we are communicating to our dogs from all of our “handler actions or inactions” throughout the search, and why we may be getting certain behaviors from our canine partners in trial that baffle us.
This workshop will include video footage from other dog sports and video submissions from those attending the workshop as auditors, to demonstrate deliberate and inadvertent communication between dogs and their handlers. Additionally, Dana will set up exercises to highlight handler movement and the dog’s response to better understand what our dogs are communicating “at each moment” and improve our productivity as handlers without diminishing drive and independence.
You will also be given specific handling tools to increase your ability to listen while simultaneously allowing the dog more freedom to make choices and hunt independently.
Sue and Dana deliver this workshop with humor, compassion and enthusiasm knowing that teams will leave with a new way of looking at the search and new tools to strengthen the handler/dog team through the long-term journey of this amazing game.

11/14/2023

Trials need volunteers to function well. It's a great way to learn by watching teams work. No experience necessary.

Please consider volunteering for the upcoming Marble Falls trials Dec 1 and 2nd.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E4CA4AE29ABF58-45477853-volunteer