Engage your dog’s natural instinct to use their nose while having fun!
Scent Class is a great opportunity for dogs to use their natural instincts and develop skills along with building deeper bonds with owners. More advanced students can even train their dogs to search for commonly lost items such as car keys or cell phones! Searches will take place indoors, outdoors, and beyond!
The class will also teach owners about scent detection sports and the benefits of teaching your dogs scenting games: increase dog’s engagement with the owner, give dog mental enrichment, an outlet for dogs who naturally enjoy sniffing (hounds, shepherds, really all breeds). This class will be based on NACSW rules and philosophies.
Benefits of Scent Class:
- Owners learn to read their dog’s body language when searching – assisting both in scent-work and everyday life with their dog.
- Dogs and owners are introduced to the three core scents in all scent-work venues (Birch, Anise, Clove), and the four basic search elements (Container, Interior, Exterior, Vehicles).
- Dogs easily burn lots of mental & physical energy doing searches
- Provides much needed mental enrichment for any dog
- Searches can be done anywhere you can take your dog
- Shy or fearful dogs build confidence and overactive dogs put their energy into fun searches
- Stronger bond between dog & handler as you learn to observe, understand, and rely on your dog.
- Learn a great activity for rainy and cold days to relieve your dog of excess energy
- Mental enrichment helps to prevent and resolve behavioral problems
Dogs must have be current with Rabies, DHPP, and Kennel Cough vaccines, and need to be at least 6 months of age or older. Reactive or disruptive dogs may be removed from the program.
Beginner Scent Class – 5 weeks in length and costs $179.00.
This is the place to start for your dog’s scent-work training! Basic obediance and manners (place, wait, sit) are required for a successful experience. In this class, you will start learning how to pair the odor, with reward, to help your dog understand the fundementls of searching. If your dog likes to mark or frequently pees on objects, please contact the office directly prior to registering.Â
Our next round of Beginner Scent Class is TBD
Intermediate Scent Class – 5 weeks in length and costs $199.00.
Now that you have completed Beginner Scent Class, take the next step in your dog’s scent-work journey! This is not an introductory class and requires your dog to already be trained on odor (birch, anise, clove). We will jump immediately into searches in our first class. Weather permitting, we will do searches in all four elements (interior, exterior, vehicles, and containers).
Our next round of Intermediate Scent Class is February 25th at 6:30PM