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Continue reading →: Learning to Trust Your Dog
Learning to Read Your Dog “Trust your dog” “Read your dog” “He told you about that hide four times!! Why didn’t you call it!” These are things we hear all the time in scent work . As an instructor, these are things I SAY all the time. And yet we…
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Continue reading →: Vehicles, O Vehicles
Vehicles, O Vehicles, you are a bitch of an element! Well, ok, that was how I felt when I was running my first Nosework dog. I admit it, Riley and I sucked at vehicles for a while. And I couldn’t figure out where we were going wrong. So I complained…
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Continue reading →: Balance and Blanks
I have been thinking a lot about balance. Partly because I have a puppy, and I want to do my training differently this time. And partly because I am older now, and I have learned more about trying to balance my life in general, and I have decided that balance…
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Continue reading →: The Mystery of the Blue Tape
Ah the mysteries of nosework….they are myriad and they are everywhere. On my mind recently has been the mystery of the blue tape. (Which sounds like a Nancy Drew mystery.) This particular mystery occurs only in AKC trials (unlike the mystery of the disappearing hide, which happens EVERYWHERE) and stems…
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Continue reading →: On Recipes and Vehicles
Feb. 24, 2022 When I was in my 20s and 30s, I thought that cooking meant following a recipe.. Of course, I was the daughter of a mother who came of age in the 1950s, the decade of processed food, who really hated to cook, at that. So I didn’t…
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Continue reading →: Dipping Our Toes into the Competitive Waters
Yeti was ready for the Odor Recognition Test. I was sure of it. I had used all of my teaching experience to introduce him to THE sport: nosework. He was solid on odor; we had transitioned to boxes about a month after introducing the six essential oil “cocktail.” I had…
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Continue reading →: Fun Reading About Sniffing Dogs
I am a librarian by training, and of course, am also an avid reader. I am always looking for books about my favorite hobby, and have developed quite a collection over the years, both in the “read for fun” category, and “read for instruction” category. I thought I would share…
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Continue reading →: New Year, New Pup, New Platform
Jan 23, 2022 Welcome back to my blog about all things scent work and nose work related! I started this back in September, and then, well, life happened. Blogger changed their policies, so I decided to change blogging platforms, and then I got stuck in a longer learning curve than…
Hello,
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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