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Continue reading →: Mantrailing–the long and winding road
I haven’t written about MT for a while. We are still out trailing many weekends, but we have gotten through that honeymoon period where I thought that Yeti could do no wrong. We have stumbled through a few disastrous episodes where Yeti started well, but lost the trail a little…
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Continue reading →: Are You Boring Your Dog?
Scenario one: I am in class, watching a little terrier work. It’s an two-hide search, and the hides are in easy places, one under a chair, the other under step stool. This is a bright dog and he should make quick work of it, in but I see him moving…
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Continue reading →: The False Alert Cascade
I trialed Yeti last weekend, in UKC vehicles. I wanted to test out where he was in his training, and while the results were disappointing (no Qs for us!) I felt that he worked well, and that there was progression. We were trialing at the Masters level, which means searching…
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Continue reading →: Exteriors and the “oh no!” NQ
It has finally, finally reached EXTERIORS season here in Texas. For obvious reasons, I don’t teach exteriors during the hellmouth time. So all of my exterior searches are concentrated in the cooler weather period, which means in just about every class, from now until April, we will have at least…
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Continue reading →: What You Don’t Understand About the Buried Element– Part Three
In my last post, I wrote about how the dogs will naturally search the buried bins. In this post I would like to talk about why. (Note: if you missed my other posts on the buried element, you can find them here: What You Don’t Understand about the Buried Element…
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Continue reading →: What You Don’t Understand About the Buried Element (Part Two)
Yeti working away from the buried bin Last week I wrote about judging a buried element class and watching dogs fail because their handlers wouldn’t let them search away from the bins. (Thank you all for the comments and shares, you are very kind). I thought I would write this…
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Continue reading →: What You Don’t Understand About the Buried Element
A few weeks ago I was judging the upper-level buried element classes at a trial. Everything was in order, the hides were set well ahead of time so that they could age appropriately. We were indoors, in a school. Buried was set up in the central area of the small library.…
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Continue reading →: In Praise of Mantrailing
Yeti on the trail I get up before dawn, and when I open the back door to go out and load up the car, I breathe in cool air. It has come. The cold front has arrived, and with it, Fall. I have been waiting months for this event, and…
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Continue reading →: Read This Before You Go To Your Next Trial
Yeti would like a word with you…he’s heard you talking about the searches Sept. 11, 2023 Without a doubt, the most difficult part of competing in scentwork/nosework is not imprinting the dog on essential oils, and it’s not training the indication. It’s not learning to read your dog or trusting…
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Continue reading →: Don’t Make This Mistake at Trial
Sept. 3, 2023 Once upon a time, I was running Astra in Masters level interiors. In AKC Master Interiors, you have three searches, in three separate rooms. In each room, you have the potential of no hides (blank), one, two, or three hides. Except only one room can have zero…
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I’m Ellen
A Scent Work trainer, instructor, competitor, student, and judge. Welcome to Sniffing Around Scent Work, a blog where I write about my experiences, thoughts and musings on my favorite past time.
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