Skill Builder Bundle
Your dog can already find a specific scent. But what next? How do you keep your scentwork dog busy? This bundle has the answers
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Enrol on our 4 course bundle and save £££££!
This bundle is ideal if you have already taught your dog to search for a specific scent. I will help you build on the basics and work through each course through lectures, videos, downloadable handouts and graded quizzes. And before you know it, your pet dog will be a fully fledged detector dog.
1. Scentwork Skills
2. Increasing the Challenge
3. Baggage Searches
4. Vehicle Searches
Your Instructor
As a professional dog trainer for 30 years, I have used scentwork to help thousands of dogs work with their owners to be more attentive, less reactive, more relaxed, less agitated. As a universal skill that can be learned by all dogs and all owners, the flexibility, fast results and good old fashioned fun found in scentwork led me to form Talking Dogs Scentwork® in 2011.
Since then I've been working hard to keep up with demand, such is the interest in scentwork. As the first national provider of scentwork training for non-selected (pet) dogs in Great Britain, TDS has quickly grown into the go-to scentwork training provider, with the TDS Detector Dog manual proving more popular than I could have ever imagined, selling well all over the world, but particularly in the UK and USA. I specialise in teaching all breed types, all ages, all abilities (physical, mental and emotional) Combining my years as a professional drug detector dog handler for HM Customs with my experience as a pet dog training and behaviour consultant, I tailor my teaching to dogs who don't have jobs, those who have been selected as companions rather than tools of the trade.
I spend the majority of my time travelling around the
UK teaching Talking Dogs Scentwork® workshops. I am also privileged to be asked to share my knowledge at conferences and
with major organisations, including Dogs Trust, Puppy School, Victoria Stilwell and the
prestigious Woof! Conference.
To help meet demand and expand our knowledge base, I have been joined by a wonderful and select team of Talking Dogs Scentwork® Accredited Trainers.
Some of my working highlights include:
- Drug Detector Dog Handler with HM Customs & Excise
- Sirius Puppy Trainer in association with Dr. Ian Dunbar
- Assistance Dog Trainer for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
- Behaviourist for Wood Green Animal Shelters
- Founding & running Talking Dogs Scentwork®, part of Talking Dogs Ltd.
- Creating TD Rally® - a sport for pet dogs & their people
Courses Included with Purchase
Original Price: £270
Frequently Asked Questions
Working through this set of Core courses will take you and your dog to the next stage on your scentwork journey, developing your skills to become a true scentwork team.