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K9 Nose work is scent detection for companion dogs, a well-loved dog sport, and a fun enriching game for both you and your dog! Not only does your dog have fun and come home tired, but you get to strengthen the relationship between yourself and your dog.
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Our nose work classes are for companion dogs and their owners, looking to add a different enrichment game and exercise into their dog's life or someone wanting to compete in the dog sport! Your dog will be trained on three essential odor oils; Sweet Birch, Aniseed, and Clove Bud. Over our classes, your dog will learn to search independently and find hidden hides in containers, inside, outside, and on vehicles!
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In nose work, dogs search individually and classes are set up in a way to make them suitable, safe, and enriching for reactive and fearful dogs to join!
Prerequisites for any Nose Work classes:
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Dogs must be comfortable inside of your car (They will be waiting there between turns)
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Dogs have no bite history
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Dogs have no history with human-directed aggression or reactivity
**If your dog falls outside of the prerequisites, we can accommodate private scent detection training**
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Please contact us to discuss more options!
Our Classes!
Please fill out the intake form by clicking on the text of your preferred class to be added to our waitlist and you will be contacted when our next set of classes are available!
Intro to K9 Nose Work
6 Sessions - 1.15 hour(s)/week - 5 dogs per class
This is a beginner class no previous scent detection experience is required.
Over 6 weeks dogs will learn to search for hidden food indoors, outdoors, and on vehicles using their amazing noses! The goals for our foundation dogs are to build their drive and desire to search and to build an independent and confident searcher.
$215+GST
Intro to Odor
6 Sessions - 1.15 hour(s)/week - 5 dogs per class
Prerequisites:
Intro to scent detection classes with FFDT or an equivalent class at a different training company.
Once we have built our dog's drive and excitement to search, we will introduce them to our first target odor- Birch!
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During these classes, our goal is to begin creating associations toward detecting the target odor and learning how odor moves.
$215+GST
Continuing K9 Nose Work
6 Sessions - 1.15 hour/week - 5 dogs per class
Dogs must be on odor (either paired or unpaired).
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In our continuing classes, dogs will be introduced to the essential oils clove and aniseed- two other target odors.
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During these classes, we will continue to build on the dog's skills by introducing more complex searches and we will build on the handler's skills with fun games!
$200+GST