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Continue reading →: Making the Buried Element Easier
Yeti working a buried hide On a regular basis (seems like every few months) the topic of the buried element comes up on the Friends of AKC Scentwork Facebook page. It goes something like this (every time): AKC should get rid of this element, women our age cannot set up…
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Continue reading →: Mantrailing! The Newest Scent Sport
Last week I attended a two day beginner seminar on Mantrailling, offered by Mantrailing Global, only the second one given in the US! This is a brand new scent sport in this country (although I understand that it is very popular in Europe), and I have high hopes for it…
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Continue reading →: Training the Handler Discrimination Element
My collection of distraction cotton balls So, it has been a very busy month, but finally I have had some time to sit down and work on the post I promised about training the Handler Discrimination (HD) element. These are not step by step instructions, exactly, more like some tips…
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Continue reading →: Trusting Your Dog on Vehicles
I know I promised more on training the Handler Discrimination element, and I am working on a post, it is just going to take a bit more time. In the meantime, I thought I would share this video of Yeti working a vehicle, from a trial last weekend. SPOILER ALERT:…
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Continue reading →: The Difficulties in Training the HD Element
A good friend asked me to blog on this topic, which, as it turns out, I have been devoting a great deal of thought to, as Astra has reached the Master HD level, and Yeti is just starting Novice in HD. Handler Discrimination, or HD, is a scent work class…
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Continue reading →: The Mysteries of Nosework: The Information at the Edge of the Cone
Of all the mysteries of scenting and scent work, this is my favorite: one of the most magical things in the world is watching a dog bracket on a scent cone, or work a hide from a distance. Bracketing I am going digress a bit here, to define some terms,…
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Continue reading →: Learning to Trust Your Dog (part 3)
In my last post, I believe I exhorted people to believe that their dogs are purposefully searching, even when it appears to you that they are not. Several weeks after I wrote that post, I found that I needed to take my own advice. Some of you read about Yeti’s…
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Continue reading →: Learning to Trust Your Dog (Part 2)
Learning to Trust Your Dog, Part 2 In my last post, I talked about learning to trust your dog. Since then I have been giving it some thought. There are eight steps that I have been able to identify in learning to trust your dog. They are not really sequential,…
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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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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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