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.
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The Scent Work Series; Posts
Posts will be displayed here once released!
Session 2 & 3 | The Scent Work Series
Juliette Mylius | 6 August 2023 As discussed last Thursday, we have just introduced Duke to Scent Work! He is a quick learner and now knows the basics of ‘Search’ and ‘Show me’. In this post, we will discuss how sessions 2 & 3 went and what we trained. These two we will be putting… Continue reading Session 2 & 3 | The Scent Work Series
Session 1 | The Scent Work Series
Juliette Mylius | 2 August 2023 Today was our very first Scent Work session with my dog Duke! Overall, I would have to say he did well. My aim was to teach him ‘search’ which applies to sniffing the birch scent. I also wanted to see if he had any hunt drive and work on… Continue reading Session 1 | The Scent Work Series
How To Prepare For Your Scent Work Session
Juliette Mylius | 31 July 2023 After all the research, it was finally time to get started in Scent Work. Part of that being the set up! In this post of the Scent Work Series, join me to talk about how I prepared my first scent for training with my dog! Once all the equipment… Continue reading How To Prepare For Your Scent Work Session