Classes offered at Nose Work Passion

For those who want to tire out your dog, give him a job, increase confidence or improve your relationship as well as learn to read your dog, Nose Work is a wonderful choice. 

IF you get bitten by the competitive bug, then a variety of organizations offer competitions – NACSW, CKC, UKC, AKC, ABC Games, SSG, SDDA and C-Wags. The teaching method at Nose Work Passion readies a team for competition, if desired, though the emphasis is on fun and doing what’s best for the dog in the moment.

All classes are run as either a 4 or 6 week set. All classes of 5-7 teams are 90 minutes long.  Classes with 3-4 teams run for 60 minutes. 

Classes are either Primary  - searching for food at first to build up the search drive and foundation skills, or ultimately Odour classes.  All new dogs are started on Primary. 

** In ALL nose work classes, the dogs work one at a time and other dogs are not present. **

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Classes offered: 

Introduction to Nose Work – 6 week set – 90 minutes each  

Your dog is the subject matter expert – they have the nose! Building on their natural hunting skills and the start of learning to read your dog’s body language are key to this class. We increase skills and work on foundations. Each dog is treated individually. I love games so I make sure to incorporate some fun game style competitions in the classes. 

Introduction to Nose Work Advanced - 4 week set - 90 minutes each 

Continuing on the foundation work for the dogs and more work on the handling and reading of your K9 partner.  These courses are prerequisites to Introduction to Odour.  The instructor will advise each team about when they can move to the Odour class. 

Introduction to Odour – 4 week set – 90 minutes each 

Your search dog, wlth all the skills built from the first levels, brings those skills to this level and now learns to build value for odour.  Handler learns their new role. Odour information and odour handling techniqes are taught to the human half of the team.  Foundation work is continued.  

Continuing Odour – 4 week set - 90 minutes each 

Possible drop-in options coming soon!

Teams move to this level from the Intro to Odour class. We continue to work on foundation skills adding twists plus more fun and complicated searches. As always, sustaining and increasing hunt drive and problem solving are highlighted along with emphasis on reading your K9 partner. Field trips are possible as well as mock trials and Odour Recognition Tests. 

Private Lessons

Hone a skill - work on something specific.  Contact Brenda for more information.