General Scent Work Skills

There are general Scent Work skills all dog and handler teams will need to work on and perfect during their sniffing journeys.

These resources will help you and your dog master these skills!

General Scent Work Skills
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Odor Theory
The Difference Between Theory and Reality Seminar
Instructor: Tony Gravley

Are you looking for a down-to-earth explanation of odor theory with tips on how to design specific odor puzzles? This seminar is for you!
General Scent Work
Marker Cues in Nosework Webinar
Instructor: Michele Ellertson

Marker cues in Nosework, to click or not to click… there is a tremendous amount of debate about this topic that all comes down to timing. Learn more in this informative webinar.
Common Issues
Box Smashers Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Do you dread doing container searches with your dog since they love to smash the boxes? Learn some tips to counter this commonplace behavior in this webinar.
For Everyone
Let's Get Inspired: Creative Search Areas
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Are you starting to dread your practice and training sessions? Do all of your searches feel the same? Are you BORED? Let's help you feel inspired again, learning how to design some creative searches!
Live Webinar
Language of Nose Work: Reading Your Dog Webinar
Date: April 17th at 4:30PM PT/6:30PM CT/7:30PM ET
Instructor: Michael McManus and Natalie McManus

Learning how to read our dogs is a necessary skill for every Scent Work handler to master. See how you can go about doing this in this webinar.
Training On Your Own
Creative Searches at Home Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Bad weather. Crazy schedules. There are lots of reasons why you may not want to do a field trip with your searches. Learn some ways you can be creative right from the comfort of your own home.
Common Issues
You Can Do It Pup: Building Efficiency Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

When it comes to searching, one of our goals is for our dogs to be as efficient and effective as possible. Learn some exercises and approaches in this webinar to weave into your training sessions.
Common Issues
You Can Do It Pup: Building Independence Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Does your dog seemingly rely on you in their searches? Learn some techniques to help your dog be more independent, confident, resilient and tenacious in this webinar.
General Scent Work
What Are You Training Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

Learn how to distinguish WHAT you are working on, WHY you would work on it and WHEN it is best to do so in relation to other concepts and skills.
Trial Prep
Intentional Practice for the Extreme Webinar
Instructor: Vicky Lovejoy

Help your dog develop the skills they need to tackle a variety of searches regardless of what the search area throws at them. Great for trial-prep or simply taking your sniffing game to the next level.
General Scent Work
Masterful Mazes Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Mazes can be an excellent tool in your Scent Work training toolbox! Learn the benefits of mazes, how you can leverage them and ideas to help inspire you to create your own in this webinar.
General Scent Work
Video It! Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Let's face it: our memories when we are running our dog in training or at a trial are terrible! Filming our searches is the answer. Learn tips for how to film, equipment to use, technical tips, how to review your vidoes and much more.
Live Webinar
Train the Drive Webinar
Date: April 16th at 4:00PM PT/5:00PM MT/7:00PM ET
Instructor: Jill Kovacevich

Let's refresh our training skills for proficient odor drive search work. It is important to reconnect with an solid odor drive progression from basic hides in simplistic search areas to complex odor problems in environmental gotcha zones. Learn how in this information packed webinar!
General Scent Work
Be Brave: Using Scent Work to Build Confidence Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Scent Work is an amazing activity and we can leverage it to help our dogs build their confidence. Learn how in this webinar.
Common Issues
You Can Do It Pup: Building Focus Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

When playing Scent Work with our dogs, we need them to be focused on the task at hand. But there are times, where they are seemingly distracted. "Butterfly!" Learn how to build your dog's focus in this webinar.
Proofing
Intelligent Disobedience...SAY WHAT?!?!? Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

Ever heard of intelligent disobedience? Want to know what it is? How to implement it? Why you may need it?
Common Issues
Keeping Scent Work FUN! Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Scent Work should be your dog's FAVORITE activity! After all. it is celebrating their most impressive natural instinct. Learn how you can keep this activity for them, even if you are doing a serious level of training and trialing.
General Scent Work
Well-Rounded Sniffing Webinar
Instructor: Lori Timberlake

In this webinar, Lori discusses ways handlers can keep their Scent Work training fresh, exciting and continuing to build skills for dog and handler alike.
Training On Your Own
Make a Plan: Training Scent Work on Your Own Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

It can be far too easy to feel at a loss when training Scent Work on our own. Where do we start? How do we know what to do next, what adjustments to make? Learn some tips and tricks in this webinar!
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365 Days of Searching eBook
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Are you looking for search ideas or inspiration? Do you keep running out of search ideas? Perhaps you are an instructor looking to keep things fresh for your clients. Find 365 ideas in this eBook!
General Scent Work
What is a Purposeful Search Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

You've heard the importance of being purposeful when designing your searches. Learn what it means to be purposeful, how to plan your training even if you only have 10 minutes, how to quickly decide what you should do in an environment and more.
Foundation Scent Work
Foundations: Building, Maintaining and Celebrating eBook
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Are you looking for ways to build and maintain solid foundational skills for you and your dog when it comes to Scent Work? Perhaps how to stay motivated to offer foundational searches throughout your entire sniffing journey? This eBook is for you!
General Scent Work
Squirrel! Distractor Training Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

Do you feel as though distractors in your searches are your worst nemesis? Learn how to better train for distractors, both artificial and those "in the wild", set your dog up for success and more in with this webinar!
Odor Puzzles
Multi-Hide Searches Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Setting up multi-hide searches can be greatly beneficial for our dogs. We discuss how and why you should weave these types of searches into your training program in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Call Finish: Clearing Your Nosework Search Areas Webinar
Instructor: Michele Ellertson

Clearing a search area at trial can be unnerving to say the least. Learn the clues our dogs provide at the very start of the search that can help us more confidently call "Finish" with this webinar.
Live Webinar
You Can Do It: Building Endurance and Stamina Webinar
Date: April 24th at 4:30PM PT/7:30PM ET
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

To ensure our dogs can indeed be successful in their searches, we should take steps to build their endurance and stamina. We will discuss ways to do so in this webinar.
Odor Puzzles
Single Hide Searches Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

There are many handlers who assume every search area must have multiple hides. Nothing could be further from the truth! Single hide searches can be extremely helpful in a variety of ways! We discuss this and provide you some tips to try in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
The Power of Pairing: Search Monster Webinar
Instructor: Tony Gravley

Learn the power of pairing and Tony's unique system that has afforded his clients to enjoy epic results where dogs consistently drive to source, avoid fringing and are not tripped up by distractors.
Common Issues
Search Pickles: Breaking Down the Components Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

If you have run into an issue when you are training Scent Work, it can be difficult to determine the cause and what to do. Can you solve it with searches, or are more creative "out-of-the-box" solutions a better choice? Learn this, and much more, in this webinar!
Understanding Odor Theory
Odor Theory: How to Set for the Goal Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

We know we must set hides with purpose and that means having a goal. But how do you actually do that? Setting hides that consistently do what you want is a skill in itself. Learn how to do so by having a better understanding of odor theory with this webinar.
Trial Prep
Odor Drive: How To Train to Maintain Webinar
Instructor: Jill Kovacevich

Let's discuss odor drive! Enjoy an in depth discussion on what odor drive is, why it is important for scent detection sport dogs, how we can assess what drive gear our dogs are in when they are searching, when to train odor drive and how to maintain it.
Trial Prep Program
The Dog-Driven Container: The Why and The How Webinar
Instructor: Michele Ellertson

Learn how to train a dog-driven pattern as a way for the dog to find success and not frustration when tackling their container searches.
Trial Prep
Hunt Drive Webinar
Instructor: Tony Gravley

What is actual hunt drive? Does your dog have adequate hunt drive and how can you get the most out of your dogs hunt drive? Learn all of this and more in this informative webinar.
Training On Your Own
Considerations: Training Scent Work on Your Own Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

When training on our own, there are considerations we should keep in mind to ensure we and our dogs are successful and progressing as expected. Learn what these are and how to maximize on your training in this webinar.
Common Issues
When Dog Odor Trumps Target Odor: Sexy Time Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Does your dog obsess about other doggie smells, thinking they need to mark and drool over every spot another dog has visited? In this webinar, we provide reasons why your dog may be doing this and exercises you can try to help them better focus on their Scent Work searches instead.
Common Issues
Common Pitfalls When Training Scent Work Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

There are some common pitfalls that can occur when training Scent Work. Take this webinar to ensure you do not fall victim to them as well!
Trial Prep
Games for Maintenance Webinar
Instructor: Michele Ellertson

Remember when you first introduced the game of Nose Work to your dog and they loved it, excited and driven to play? Learn how to further build and maintain this drive all throughout their Nose Work journey in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
The Dog-Driven Vehicle: The Why and How Webinar
Instructor: Michele Ellertson

Are you finding your dog is having a lack-luster response to searching vehicles? Learn how to build your dog's eagerness and determination to tackle their vehicle searches by making them dog-driven patterns in this webinar.
Foundation Sniffing Program
Introduction to Scent Work Course
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Teach your dog how fun the game of Scent Work really is by using the K9 Nose Work® training method hunting for primary.
Search Ideas
Spice Up Your Chair Hides Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Does the idea of setting yet another chair hide make your skin crawl? Learn no less than 20 unique search set-ups using chair hides which are certain to spice up your training sessions.
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