Thank you Helen Pye for hosting a great weekend, and looking after me, lovely homemade cakes, dinner and a goodie bag for me and the dogs for the evening. Also thanks to Nicola Cook for arranging a brilliant venue. I had the pleasure of working with some great teams of dogs and handlers, enjoying training and discussion time.
Super Jemima at last Sundays training day. 🥰 💪🏼
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A great new venue for our second day of camp, we were lucky to visit a primary school that had lots of interesting areas to search, great fun for both the dogs and handlers and plenty of space to tailor the training to individual dogs needs.
Here's a few photos from our day.
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⭐ Coming Soon.... Date for a new training day ⭐
' What is Your Dog Trying to Tell You...'
This video is part of a search where Smartie is providing his handler with so many pieces of information about the location of the hide well before any final response is given.
Very often the decision about the location of a hide is based solely on the final/conditioned response. However by making sure we are a part of the team and observing our dogs behaviour and the environment before this, we can gain so much more information.
During this training day we will be increasing your power as a Detective when searching more complex hides with your dog. Also looking at when to step in and support and when to leave the dogs to do the job they are experts at.
Today we held the first Shooting Star Skills assessment, the 3rd Award in the Scent Detectives Awards series.
One of the topics for this award is distraction odours, for the assessment the teams complete 3 'line ups' which include their target odour and multiple distraction odours. Todays distractions included, blue tak, a glove, cereal, scented candle, coffee, chewing gum.
Here are Maggie and Evie doing a great job during their assessment. 👏
During yesterday's training day we worked on developing an independent, systematic search.
The focus for the search style is to encourage the dog to be as efficient and effective as possible harnessing the dogs expertise to find and work an odour.
Here's Rupert in the video 👇
Bear was determined he wasn't going to let the target get away at our recent people screening day.
Bear has completed our two part introduction and is now attending the progression days.
These training days are aimed towards dogs and their handlers that carry out scent detection as a hobby/sport.
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During our Shining Star Award Workshop Maggie and Evie carried out one of the skills exercises perfectly 👌🤩
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I love this feedback from Sundays training day at Solihull College, great points to take away. 👇👇
Thanks for a fab day at the workshop yesterday. I think I had two light bulb moments 😆. One that I shouldn't hold an image in my mind of what a "perfect" scentwork performance should look like for Drac, he has his own style. And two, I think I finally get that clearing a room is about my dog searching thoroughly and motivationally, and not me worrying about finding odours. Will be working on my starts and rewarding searching 😆
Seeing this team progress through the Scent Detectives Community trainings is fantastic. Super teamwork Yvonne and Drac 💪
Smartie searching the stands at our People Screening training day last weekend.
It was lovely to see the dogs progress throughout the day, a follow on day is already booked in the diary.
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Jessie and Milo working on building independent indications at last night's training session. 🐾
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I managed to take a few photos at yesterdays training day. We focused on working together as a team when searching areas, utilising dog and handler strengths. Great work from all the teams 👏
Halle took her job very seriously on today's workshop 😂😍 #scentdetection #scentwork #nosework #munsterlander #scentdetectives #dogshavingfun
The only way is up! #scentwork #nosework #detectiondog #blackworkingcocker #scentdetectives #dogshavingfun
“Trust your dog” I often say this to handlers in class. Yesterday Flossie and I took part in the Scentwork UK display at Crufts during this search I really had to trust her, tasking her to search then letting her go and do her thing with out knowing what she was doing, thank goodness the audience cheered! 🐾 #scentdetectives #crufts2019 #workingcocker #blackworkingcocker #scentwork #scentworkuk #nosework #dogshavingfun
