Dog Sports – Scent Work / Nose Work
Dogs have an amazing sense of smell and a natural desire to hunt.
This activity focuses on teaching you how to encourage and develop your dog’s natural scenting abilities using their love of toys and exercise. Tracking and scent work brings you to the very essence of what a dog is and giving the dog a chance to do what they do best, use their nose. Using a search and rescue style of tracking system with positive reinforcement methods.
Dogs Love It.
Starting with exercises right in your home, we work towards more intricate areas outdoors and finally to following a scent trail/track. It’s fun, builds confidence, and burn lots of mental and physical energy.
Exercises start with article association, sighting, air scenting and build gradually allowing your dog to succeed at each level to finally following an invisible trail leading to the hidden object or person (quarry).
Your dog can learn to search for a specific scent. It is a fun game for any dog and it gives you and your dog an enjoyable activity you can do together – a game that can grow in complexity and challenge as you both learn.
Pre-requisite: Basic level of obedience training with reliable sit/down and recall.
Call Nina at 604-802-8251 or send a message for information and details.