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Reflection Pet Services Professional & experienced, board certified dog trainer Donna Toews CPDT-KA, CNWI Classes are held in Vancouver and Surrey. Other locations may be advertised.

This is the professional page of certified dog trainer Donna Toews CPDT-KA, CNWI, Judge with UKC Nosework and CKC Scentwork and will be used to stay in contact with students as well as to promote classes and future events. Certified with the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers (since 2006) and the National Association of Canine Scent Work (since 2012 and still holds certification

in good standing), the training is reward-based and without the use of training tools such as prong or electric collars. When dogs work for what they want and avoid that which they don't, it's elementary to change behaviours. Experienced and quality training for the sport of K9 Nose Work® as well as private consultations for behaviour challenges of the family dog. K9 Nose Work®
Training at all levels of the sport. Intro to K9 Nose Work®, Intro to Odours, Advanced and Continuing classes with an instructor who is the first International ELT-CH team (outside of the USA). Private lessons for Pet Dogs
Puppies, Behaviours Revisited, Recalls, Rescue Support

To make inquiries or register for classes, please visit:
reflectionpetservices.com/Contact.html

For those in BC, enjoy a safe and fun Family Day. Keep warm and dry!
17/02/2025

For those in BC, enjoy a safe and fun Family Day. Keep warm and dry!

Happy Valentine's Day!
15/02/2025

Happy Valentine's Day!

All kinds of surprises in our Valentine’s Day searches.
13/02/2025

All kinds of surprises in our Valentine’s Day searches.

If your "adopted" dog originated from Texas, this info may be important to you.
12/02/2025

If your "adopted" dog originated from Texas, this info may be important to you.

The closure of a pet microchip company sparks confusion, but AAHA's microchip registry lookup tool can help.

Here is a short video about tips for tracking. Some apply to nosework with an exemption about a taut leash.Just "bring t...
07/02/2025

Here is a short video about tips for tracking. Some apply to nosework with an exemption about a taut leash.
Just "bring the food" which is pretty clear!

Monitoring the weather. Please check your email by noon on Weds. to confirm if we are holding classes.
04/02/2025

Monitoring the weather. Please check your email by noon on Weds. to confirm if we are holding classes.

In memory of Sweet Boy Charlie.A yellow lab mix who took nosework classes for a number of years in Vancouver and showed ...
02/02/2025

In memory of Sweet Boy Charlie.
A yellow lab mix who took nosework classes for a number of years in Vancouver and showed us what excitement truly looks like. Charlie didn't care if we didn't believe him... he was excited to be there, to sniff the boxes and VOILA!!! to find something and tell the whole class about it. Thank you for being a great teacher and making us believers.

Knowing that Sue and Caroline miss you a lot, we send them our love for their loss.

You were a very good boy Charlie.

30/01/2025

Such fine teams playing the game tonight!! In fact, every team was a fine team!
Just when you think nothing will go right, we wait and suddenly things change. Always remember that it's the dog's game... Lila taught us that tonight.
Welcome to Chance! glad I don't have a really big purse that she would fit inside.

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26/01/2025

Pets Matter is a fabulous grass roots society helping dogs and owners. I have great respect for their work so was very honoured to be asked to assess a foster dog today. Thank you.

This small breed dog will be ready for a new home soon and I can help the transition (if needed).

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24/01/2025
24/01/2025

"Unless the dog is dead, the dog is learning."
Chirag Patel at Clicker Expo Jan 2025

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I couldn't find a video of Gail McCarthy's reward at source but here is a link to some written instructions and thoughts...
23/01/2025

I couldn't find a video of Gail McCarthy's reward at source but here is a link to some written instructions and thoughts.
Your dog thanks you for all the wonderful extra rewards tonight... and the tripe!!

Reward for the Find gmccarthy Posted on September 30, 2013 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments I always preference any writing I do about dog training with a comment that Karen Pryor once made: “There are as many ways to train an animal as there are people to think them up.” What you need to do i...

18/01/2025

CTV news site.

"Scientist bottles smell of bones to help solve cold cases"

GEMBLOUX, Belgium - A Belgian research scientist is working with the federal police to create a scent that mimics the smell of dried human bones to help sniffer dogs find long lost remains.

Clement Martin has already isolated the smell of decomposing human flesh and that is now used to train Belgium’s cadaver dogs.

But once the soft tissue has disappeared, the scent molecules of the remaining bones become significantly fewer, scientific researcher Martin told Reuters.

“Bones smell different over the years too. A 3-year-old bone will smell different to a 10-year-old one and even 20 years,” he said.

Skeletal remains are porous too and absorb smells from the surrounding environment, from the soil to pine trees.

“In the situation of cold cases, there was a gap. Our dogs were not able to find dried bones,” Kris Cardoen, head of federal police dog training, told Reuters.

At a police training center outside Brussels, inspector Kristof Van Langenhove and his springer spaniel Bones demonstrated part of the training with Martin’s co**se scent.

Cardoen hid some tissues between cinder blocks and only contaminated a few. The dog then barked when he found the smell.

“The scent of death is one of the three tools we use during the basic training of our human remains dog,” Cardoen said.

Cadaver dogs require 1,000 hours of training and the country only ever has four at any one time.

Martin is using different samples of dried bones to develop the smell, including those of an unidentified man found in a suitcase, which are kept in a glass cylinder to allow the molecules to permeate an enclosed space ready for extraction.

“It’s a bit like a perfumer developing his perfume, he’s going to mix different aromas,” Martin said.

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I want to share this short video to show what happens when the furnace comes on... watch the dog's head as it paints the path to source. Scunny follows the air movement to source. Well done.

You can see the dog "bracket" the odour. Pluto is deaf and sight impaired. Excellent handling.

This is Fleet, the magnificent Pharoah Hound. He is searching for primary (food) and was finding the last hide in the search. Fleet is just over 1 yo and follows the passion of Red and Jinx. Video credit: F. Tarnez #nosework #pharoahhound #reflectionpetservices

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This is the professional page of board certified dog trainer Donna Toews CPDT-KA [2006], CNWI [2012], Certifying Hide Official with UKC Nosework [2017], licensed CKC judge [2019] and will be used to stay in contact with students as well as to promote classes and future events. Classes are held in Vancouver and Surrey. Other locations may be advertised. Certified with the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers (since 2006) and the National Association of Canine Scent Work (since 2012 and still holds certification in good standing), the training is reward-based and without the use of training tools such as prong or electric collars. When dogs work for what they want and avoid that which they don't, it's elementary to change behaviours. Experienced and quality training for the sport of K9 Nose Work® as well as private consultations for behaviour challenges of the family dog. K9 Nose Work® Training at all levels of the sport. Intro to K9 Nose Work®, Intro to Odours, Advanced and Continuing classes with an instructor who is the first International ELT-CH team (outside of the USA). Private lessons for Pet Dogs Puppies, Behaviours Revisited, Recalls, Rescue Support To make inquiries or register for classes, please visit: reflectionpetservices.com/Contact.html