Nosework is a rapidly growing dog sport that is modeled after real world detection and employs the dazzling canine nose.
Did you know that:

• Dogs can detect some odours in parts per trillion? For example, a dog could detect a teaspoon of sugar in a million gallons of water, or two Olympic-sized pools worth. Or a dog could catch a whiff of one rotten apple in two million barrels!
• The US Pentagon spent billions of dollars trying to replicate the dog’s nose only to admit that the dog’s nose is superior?
• A dog can scent in 3D and is able to determine the direction and source of a smell?

In nosework your dog searches for essential oils. These oils are placed on cotton swabs and hidden. This is called the “hide”. Your dog searches for the “hide” and lets you know when he finds it – the “alert”. Searches take place inside buildings, out in the open, in containers such as boxes and luggage, on vehicles, and even buried in the ground.

Nosework is wonderful for building a bond with your dog, and for creating focus and confidence in your dog. After all, your dog already has a Ph.D. in sniffing!  When you do nosework with your dog, she is doing what she loves to do and does best – use her amazing nose!

Even dogs who are uncomfortable with or reactive to other dogs, can participate in nosework. In nosework classes, the dogs take turns coming into the search area and wait in the car between turns. Dogs must be comfortable being left unattended in your car between their searches.

If you want to try something different with your dog, and have a lot of fun, try our beginning nosework class!

BEGINNING NOSEWORK CLASSES

Classes will start in September 2021!

Registration will open up in August