K9 Nose Work Shelter Project

02/07/2025

NACSW K9 Nose Work® Education Division:
Upcoming Events & Announcements
Visit the webpage for more information and to register for webinars: https://k9nosework.com/webinars/
· NEXT Webinar: Building Duration at Source with Gail McCarthy
o Monday July 14, 2025
o 9:00-10:30am Pacific Time
WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:
Detection Dog Training is all about communication. We condition a dog to hunt for, and to find, a target odor and then to communicate that find to handler. The mantra that Gail follows is, “Hunt, Find, Commit.”
In training, the handler should learn to read the dog’s changes of behavior (COBs) which communicate to the handler that the dog has reached source. However, if the dog’s communication is too fleeting for reasons we will elaborate on, or if you simply are not able to read your dog’s changes of behavior, then it makes it difficult for you to know if your dog is at source. For expanded details visit the registration page

Future Webinars:
· Finding Nose Work Success at Any Level Through Visiting Basics with Steve DeTata
o Tuesday, August 26, 2025
o 5:00-6:30 PM Pacific Time
· Find the Joy in the Void-How to Love Blank (no target odor) Searches with
Lauralea Oliver
o Monday September 1, 2025
o 5:00-6:30 PM Pacific Time
· Leveling Up Your Skills – What You and Your Dog Need to Know to Succeed in Nose Work Trials with Jean Richardson
o Friday October 24, 2025
o 10:00-11:30 AM Pacific Time
Always available:
K9 Nose Work and the Shelter Dog with Jill Marie O’Brien
Co-Founder of NACSW® & K9 Nose Work®
Webinar Description:
This seminar is open to EVERYONE. This webinar is designed to share the benefits of implementing a K9 Nose Work® program in the shelter environment, rescue group or for special needs dogs. The focus will be on the basic concepts to use as part of a shelter/rescue enrichment program.

Webinars

01/07/2025

Love this video from KC De Clercq, bringing K9 Nose Work to the dogs at the Santa Barbara Animal Services (Santa Maria)! You can see how happy Billy is to be searching!

30/06/2025

K9 Nose Work Shelter Project continues its international reach, this time to Singapore! Thanks Linda Lim, who is in the NACSW Instructor Program.

29/06/2025

HAPPY SNIFFING RESEARCH FOUNDATION

K9 Nose Work®/NACSW is proud to announce the collaboration with the newly established “Happy Sniffing Research” foundation.

“Happy Sniffing Research, in partnership with the National Association of Canine Scent Work, is taking up the lead and the leash to implement a study for the purpose of sniffing out the data behind the adoptability rate of dogs that participate in K9 Nose Work within the animal shelter community. The proposed research plan is to supply a select group of shelters with tools and funding to provide K9 Nose Work within their shelter, while at the same time, monitoring a control group that will have all the same enrichment activities provided with the exception of K9 Nose Work. In this manner, each shelter will have a study group and a control group under their roof, so the research study will evaluate each shelter against itself. The study plan is for 5-6 shelters to participate over a period of 6 months and for each shelter to have the oversight and coaching of a Certified Nose Work Instructor (CNWI) available for Nose Work sessions.

Each shelter will receive funding and each CNWI will receive compensation for running the K9 Nose Work Program within the shelter. Dogs will be randomly selected for each study and control group, and when one dog is adopted (we hope this happens a lot), then another dog will be randomly selected to replace the adopted dog in both the study group and the control group. At the end of the study period, collected data will be compiled, analyzed and reported as a research publication available for public access.”

For more information and to donate, go to

🐾 Hello. Woof. Wag. Sniff. Welcome.🐾 In a recent survey of animal shelters that provide K9 Nose Work® as an enrichment program for their in-house sheltered dogs, a total of 26 shelters responded with information. (A huge wag of the tail to these 26 respondents for helping to kick-off this res...

30/04/2025

I LOVE this video and idea by Jean Haworth at PawsAtlanta (770) 593-1155, of Yoko searching and finding her DNA results! Priceless! You have to watch to the end to see what the results were. Yoko is still available for adoption. What a great dog!

29/04/2025

Here is a video of some Humane Society of North Central Florida dogs enjoying nose work enrichment! Pepsi-Cola is completely blind, still recuperating from eye surgery and having a blast!

HSNCF is expanding their Nose Work Program and would like to welcome volunteers Diane and Kerry to the fun. Thanks Jane, Nancy and Rita for the outstanding work. We’re beyond excited that more dogs will be enjoying nose work enrichment.

15/04/2025

We are at the Humane World Animal Care Expo. Sharing K9 Nose Work Shelter Project advocacy

27/03/2025

National Association of Canine Scent Work&K9 Nose Work is excited to be hosting a booth at this year's Animal Care Expo https://www.facebook.com/HSUSHumanePro. We are there to share what so many have come to know that the K9 Nose Work® model isn't just great for getting dogs started in sports detection/scent work competition but is an excellent enrichment & behavioral add on for shelters, rescues & those working with special needs dogs.
If you are going to be there please be sure to stop by our booth and say hi....

Welcome to the official page of HumanePro by Humane World for Animals. We support animal shelters, rescue groups, and more. Learn more about us at www.humanepro.org.

24/03/2025

Webinar: Unlocking the Power of Classical Conditioning in Canine Nose Work.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Kathy Murphy, BVetMed, DPhil, CVA, CLAS, MRCVS
WHEN: Monday May 26, 2025 / 10:00am to 12:00pm Pacific Time
WHERE: Virtual Lecture Hall via Zoom. Link will be sent upon receipt of payment.
https://k9nosework.com/product/webinar-unlocking-power-classical-conditioning/

12/03/2025

Check out our new Shelter Project banner, which will go on display for the first time at the Clicker Expo (March 14-16, 2025) in Chicago!

Many great things ahead in 2025 for the K9 Nose Work Shelter Project! Stay tuned!

21/02/2025

Lucy is blind. Fortunately she doesn’t need her sight to do K9 Nose Work. She’s a champ with great love to play the game. Thanks Barbara Del Rowe, CNWI and the team at the Humane Society of Westchester, especially for just putting a few boxes out for Lucy’s first experience so she wouldn’t crash into anything.

21/02/2025

K9 Nose Work Shelter Program spreads to New York. Thanks Barbara Del Rowe, CNWI for bringing enrichment to the dogs at the Humane Society of Westchester.