Echo Lesson 3
Echo K9 Nose Work Lesson 3
This is Echo’s third experience with K9 Nose Work. She searched boxes in her first two lessons and now we have put her reward out on some objects in the room. The video shows what happened. Blew her mind.
You can hear her sniffing like a freight train and see her exaggerated movements in the areas where her treats are. She’s determined to find them.
The results of K9 Nose Work: A happy dog. A tired dog. A more confident dog. A dog who is not bored all day.
Email us to find out how to implement a K9 Nose Work program at your shelter or rescue: [email protected]
Echo: K9 Nose Work Lesson 2
Here is Echo's second experience with K9 Nose Work. Her first being two weeks ago. She clearly remembered the fun of the search and went right to it. In this lesson, we introduced a few box challenges: box towers to build her confidence and boxes on their side to promote her using her nose as opposed to just checking the boxes to see if there is cheese in it. This sets her up for the next lesson where she will be finding her reward on objects in the room. She loves it! Email us to find out how to start a K9 Nose Work Shelter Program at your shelter or rescue. It's easy to do. [email protected]
Echo: K9 Nose Work Lesson 1
Here is Echo's first ever K9 Nose Work experience. Unlike Valero from last week, Echo came in lacking a little confidence. K9 Nose Work was a big step in the right direction for her. Judge for youself after watching the video. Email us at [email protected] to find out more.
Valero's first K9 Nose Work Shelter Program Experience
This is Valero's first experience with K9 Nose Work. He is a high energy dog, so we took him straight from his kennel to our training room, which is full of distrations (food, toys, dog smells). The video is a first take and is not edited.
Our friends and supporters at The Hounds Grounds (www.thehoundsgrounds.com) summed it up in a recent post..."Fulfillment and purpose is vital to the mental health of your dog!"
This is what K9 Nose Work achieves. Every dog has a natural instinct to hunt (search) using their most developed sense (smell) to solve the puzzles we set for them, and they love to solve puzzles.
K9 Nose Work is great for high energy dogs to calm them down and shy dogs to boost confidence (video on this later, we got it today too).
Contact us to find out how easy it is to set up a K9 Nose Work Shelter Program at your shelter or rescue. Your dogs will thank you.
Great K9 Nose Work Shelter Program video of some dogs having fun at the Humane Society of North Central Florida....
Chihiro
Been gone from the shelter for a few months but come back and find Chihiro here. Probably won't be here for long so decided to see how she was at some K9 Nose Work. Here's her first session. Really good focus after just a few minutes of playing the game.
Maria (HSNCF)
LOVE this video of Maria available for adoption at the Humane Society of North Central Florida. She got to do some K9 Nose Work for enrichment and caught on pretty quick. Oh yeah, did we mention she is completely blind?! Doesn't need sight to use her nose. Thanks Jane Hansen, Nancy, Rita and all the volunteers at the Humane Society of North Central Florida!
Brady - K9 Nose Work Shelter Project
Another fun video by the Humane Society of North Central Florida. Brady having a great time doing some K9 Nose Work as part of their K9 Nose Work Shelter Program. Thanks Jane Hansen and Nancy O'Malley for bringing him to CNWI Melanie Phillpot's Nose Work studio. Keep it up!
The Search is the Reward
For River, the search is the reward. Off leash exterior search for the first time. We put 6 small pieces of cheese out and let her loose. Had the extra benefit of Animal Control bringing a skunk through our search area minutes before. The smell bothered us, no effect on River. Found them all in about 2 minutes. Love her reactions when she gets close to one.
Kringle
Not exactly K9 Nose Work but still tons of fun! Every now and then a ball obsessed dog comes along. Kringle is one of those. This is the first time he has been exposed to these type of scenarios. They are part of his submission video to be evaluated for a search and rescue dog. With the field test, he completed the search with the same enthusiasm (maybe even more) after being held at the start line for over a minute.
Pitty K9NW
Love watching the pitties (well all
dogs really) doing shelter K9 Nose Work. Here's a quick video of a couple of them from our friends at the Humane Society of North Central Florida. Thanks Jane Hansen! Send us more!
River Run
Shelter under construction = great opportunity for K9 Nose Work training. River hadn't done any K9 Nose Work in about 3 weeks and had never been into this area. She's finding 3 pieces of small cheese among all this stuff and every other distraction in that area. Pretty good search despite the poor handling!
Ellie the Rottweiler
K9 Nose Work Instructors.... want to get experience working with a bunch of different breeds and temperaments of dogs? Start up a K9 Nose Work Shelter Program for your local shelter or rescue group. Ask us how. Here's a short video of the 120 pound pulling machine (AKA Ellie the Rottweiler) during her first session of K9 Nose Work.
River run
River would like to see your videos of shelter/rescue dogs having fun doing some K9 Nose Work! Please email anything you have to [email protected]
Here is River crushing a search of close proximity hides of varying elevation. Her focus is crazy. There is a dog on the other side of the door, and the room is full of toys, treats, dog smells and her favorite people. She ignores them all to search. K9 Nose Work.
Super Sniffers
Another great video from our friends at the Pawtastic Friends Training and Enrichment Facility in Las Vegas, NV, where lucky dogs in rescue get to do some K9 Nose Work! Cyndee Platko does an excellent job of running the program with her volunteers and explains the benefit of K9 Nose Work for the rescue dogs!
Nova
What do you do with a 1+ year old Malinois that was dumped at the shelter? Give her a job of course. K9 Nose Work. Nova clearly had never been taught anything, even being on a leash. She is very sweet with all people and dogs, to the point of being a little timid and lacking confidence. We introduced her to K9 Nose Work. This video is of her third time searching (all in the same lesson after about 10 minutes) and her first time off leash. Going to have fun with this one.
Pippa
K9 Nose Work is great for helping shy dogs come out of their shell and build confidence. This is Pippa at the Humane Society of North Central Florida. She came in last week and was very scared and shy. Shelter staff asked the volunteers running the K9 Nose Work Program there to work with her and the results were instantaneous. The first part of the video is her first ever experience with K9 Nose Work. She is still a little cautious but was able to play. The second half of the video is her second session a few days later and she is noticeably more confident and focused. They are now able to walk her instead of having to carry her. Thanks to Jane Hansen for working with her and sending us this video.
We will be doing an online presentation sponsored by the Humane Society of North Central Florida Volunteer-U on November 22, 2022, at 12:00 pm PDT. Message us if you are interested in attending.
Scarlet
Meet Scarlet, our newest dog for K9 Nose Work at the San Clemente-Dana Point Animal Shelter. This is her first day of K9 Nose Work and she is working in our high distraction interior space full of dog toys, treats, kongs and dog smells in general. She did great. K9 Nose Work will make her time at the shelter more enriching until she finds a home.
Before and After K9 Nose Work
Think River was a little excited about getting to play K9 Nose Work today. She did 3 searches (5-6 pieces of cheese in each), took about 10 minutes to do the whole thing. Pretty much tired her out. Took her for a quick loose leash (no pulling) walk and she's still crashed out in her kennel an hour later. Happy dog.
River
Now that Willow has been adopted, River is our longest term K9 Nose Work shelter dog. Fortunately, she's equally adept at playing the game. We tired her out with only 3 searches before this one.
