UK Sniffer Dogs Scent Detection for Pet Dogs
Improving dog's lives through nose work, with a programme that enables owners to give their dogs positive scent experiences, not only teaching them to work and play with scent, but using scent to rectify problems in pet dogs when it comes to behaviour. The power of scent work is endless!
UK Sniffer Dogs 2 Week Beginners Course - £50
Saturday 22nd and 29th August 2020 - 9.30am to 11am - 2 Places left
Suitable for dogs of any age, breed and activity level, this 2 week beginners course will introduce you to the world of scent work using fun and easy to follow techniques, providing a great source of mental exercise for your dog.
In our beginners, improvers and bronze level sniffer classes, we work using the target scent of Kong (the red food toys that dogs love), which makes learning scent work fun and engaging for your dog.
In this course we will work on scent pairing, indication, game of choice, line ups, pipe and chair searches.
Each class is 1.5 hours in length and includes comfort breaks.
This course also includes an accompanying course booklet, homework kit and certificate of attendance.
UK Sniffer Dogs 2 Week Improvers Course - £50
Saturday 12th and 19th September 2020 - 9.30am to 11.30am
Following on from our 2 week beginners course, in this next 2 week course we will be expanding our searches to include bags, vehicles, novel environments and blind searches as well as working on more advanced indication skills, again using the target scent of red Kong.
Each session is 2 hours in length and includes comfort breaks.
Your dog must have completed the 2 week beginners course prior to attending this course. Upon completing this course you will be eligible to attend bronze level trials, which are held both at K9 Klass Dog Training and across the country.
This course also includes an accompanying course booklet and certificate of attendance.
UK Sniffer Dogs Bronze (Foundation) 6 Week Courses - £70
Suitable for dogs of any age, breed and activity level, this 6 week foundation course will introduce you to the world of scent work using fun and easy to follow techniques, providing a great source of mental exercise for your dog.
We have two levels of the bronze course available; Beginners, which is ideal for dogs new to scent work or those that have some experience of scent work but are new to the target scent of Kong; and Improvers, for those who have already completed the UK Sniffer Dogs Beginners and Improvers 2 week courses or the Beginners 6 week course and want to continue their scent work training and/or work towards completing a bronze trial.
Exercises in the courses include building freeze indication on target scent (KONG), completing searches on pots, pipes, and boxes, chairs, bags, vehicles and novel search environments such as exterior walls, fences and random new areas as well as mock trials.
Each class is 50 minutes long.
Certificate of attendance given upon course completion.
Beginners - Sunday 25th October 2020 - 1.30pm (Clanfield)
This course is for dogs who are new to scent work or those with previous scent work experience that are new to using the target scent of Kong. Please note this course will take place over 7 weeks as there will be no class on Sunday 8th November 2020 due to a Remembrance Sunday event taking place at the hall.
Improvers - Thursday 10th September 2020 - 7pm (Wickham)
This course is for dogs who have already completed a beginners or bronze course previously as we will be continuing to progress on the skills already learned.
UK Sniffer Dogs Bronze Trial - £20
Next date TBC
Putting your dog's sniffer skills to work, the bronze trial will test them across bag, chair, novel and vehicle searches for the target scent of red Kong.
For bronze level, both the beginners and improvers courses or the 6 week bronze foundation course must have been attended.
The trial will consist of 4 timed searches as follows:
Search 1: Line up search 6-8 bags x 1 hide (1 minute)
Search 2: 6-8 chairs x 2 hides (2 minutes)
Search 3: 12 sqm vertical "novel area" x 3 hides (3 minutes)
Search 4: Vehicle search x 2 hides (2 minutes)
Pass: 5 hides found Merit: 6-7 hides found Distinction: 8 hides found
The cost of each trial is £20 and a certificate and rosette will be awarded upon passing the trial. Upon booking you will be allocated a 20 minute time slot for your trial between the times of 9.30am and 11.10am.
UK Sniffer Dogs Silver 6 Week Course - £70
Moving on from bronze level, our silver classes introduce two new target scents, gun oil and cat nip as well as new "active searches". Police working dogs can be trained on up to 8 different scents. Cocaine, Cannabis, Cash, Amphetamine, Heroin, Bombs and more. We believe the dog can be trained on many more and this is referred to this as their target scent library.
Our silver level classes are held at Clanfield Memorial Hall and will cover the introduction of gun oil to our dog's scent target library, working on chair and bag searches, novel environments and vehicle searches, as well as building upon distance, difficulty, duration and distraction of indications.
We will also cover a new type of indication, known as an active search on another new target scent, cat nip. The active search involves teaching the dog a retrieve so that when they find the cat nip toy or key, they retrieve it and return to the handler.
At the end of the silver course, we will work on preparations for the silver trial, which includes chair and bag searches, novel searches and vehicle searches in addition to our new active search .
Each class is 50 minutes long.
Certificate of attendance given upon course completion.
Saturday 12th September 2020 - 2.30pm - FULL
This course is fully booked