Scentwork

Phoenixx and Coffee are making good progress in Scentwork.

Phoenixx has her Scentwork Novice title (SWN) so she is competing in Advanced

Coffee has 2 more passes to get for her Novice title

Scent Work is a sport based on dogs locating an odour and communicating to the handler that the odour has been found.

Scent work involves training dogs to search for specific odours from certain essential oils in several situations called ‘elements’, in containers such as boxes, on the outside of vehicles, inside buildings and in the outside environment.

Dogs need to find the source of the odour and communicate its exact location to their owner.

Dog and owner teams compete to locate the source of the odour within a set time given by the judge to determine which teams are the fastest and most accurate in their searches.

Owners and dogs need to gain several qualifications at each level to progress to more complex searches at higher levels.