September 2023
Follow along with our Founder’s journey in scent-work! Read about how we start off and how the training progresses
Welcome to Our Scent Work Series!
What is this about?
Hello, I’m Juliette and the founder of Practice Paws. This Scent Work series is all about my journey in Scent Work with one of my dogs. This will be formatted like our blog, however will only continue for about a month. Each week a two new posts will be released discussing my tips and experiences in scent work and how the training session went. A post will cover about 1 to 2 training sessions…
As I am no expert in this area, please do not use this series as a full on guide or tutorial to scent work. Instead, see this as something you can follow along with in your own scent work journey or just to find out my top suggestions when training in this area. This series is for anyone who wants to learn more about scent work with me whether you have a dog or not!
Goal 1
Session 1/ 2
- For my dog to be able to recognise a scent
- For him to go up to the scent on command
- Scent: Birch
Goal 2
Session 3 – 10
- For my dog to be able to pick out the scent placed in a line of decoys
- He will find it in a line of 4 tins but only 1 contains the scent
Goal 3
Not covered in this series
- For him to be able to search for a hidden scent on command
- The scent to be hidden outside and he will find it with verbal cue ‘search’
What to Expect…
Each post covers about 1 to 2 training sessions including what went well and what went wrong. At the end of each post I include a section ‘What I plan to do next time’ which discusses my plans for the next session.
I won’t discuss every detail but instead an overview of the training session plus the good and bad parts.
For those of you who want to get into Scent Work themselves, I will include a links post with the resources I used in each post e.g. articles, videos, online shops etc.
Along with this, at the end of this series there will be an ‘Overall Guide To Scentwork’ post. Being an overall actual guide to Scent Work (Which will probably be posted on the blog too) with my best tips and “what not to do’s” from experience.
Post Release Dates
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The Scent Work Series; Posts
Posts will be displayed here once released!
Our Overall Guide to Scent Work | The Scent Work Series
Welcome to the final post of The Scent Work Series! In this post, we will share our overall guide to get started in scent work also diving into problems we ran into in our SW journey and how to fix them! A big thanks to everyone who has been following along with this series and… Continue reading Our Overall Guide to Scent Work | The Scent Work Series
Session 9 & 10 | The Scent Work Series
Juliette Mylius Welcome to our final training session post of The Scent Work Series! In this post we will discuss how sessions 9 and 10 went and what we did! Before we get into the training talk, a huge thank you to everyone that has followed along with this series and supported our Scent Work… Continue reading Session 9 & 10 | The Scent Work Series
Session 7 & 8 | The Scent Work Series
Juliette Mylius | 21 August 2023 We’re back for session 7 & 8! In these sessions we can see how much we’ve progressed since the start of our scent work journey. After troubleshooting recently in session 5, we are well back on track and are now into some great scent work training on the ground!… Continue reading Session 7 & 8 | The Scent Work Series