Scentwork
Discover Your Dog’s Superpower.
Their Nose!
Unlock your dog’s natural talent with our Scentwork Workshop Series. Six fun, supportive sessions where you and your dog learn the art of scent detection together.
Whether you’ve got a high-energy hound, a sensitive rescue, or a nervous beginner, Scentwork builds focus, confidence, and calm in dogs of all breeds and ages.
What Is Scentwork?
Scentwork teaches your dog to identify and indicate a specific scent. The same principles used by working detection dogs, but adapted for pets.
It’s calm, fascinating, and deeply rewarding to see your dog’s instincts and intelligence shine.
Common Challenges We Help With
- Over-arousal or frustration on walks
- Reactivity or anxiety around dogs or people
- Lack of focus or short attention span
- Nervousness or low confidence
- Excess energy or boredom
Scentwork channels that energy into something constructive, fulfilling, and enriching.
Why Scentwork Works
By engaging your dog’s most powerful sense, Scentwork provides a “job” that satisfies both mind and body.
It helps them:
✅ Relax through purposeful sniffing
✅ Develop focus and impulse control
✅ Build confidence in new places
✅ Strengthen communication and trust with you
✅ Achieve emotional balance and calmness
With over a decade of experience running scentwork and enrichment workshops, Clare has seen remarkable transformations. Reactive dogs relaxing, anxious dogs gaining courage, and excitable dogs finding calm focus.
What to Expect
- Small, friendly group sessions
- Welfare-focused, science-based instruction
- All equipment and scents provided
- Suitable for every dog from puppies to seniors
- Plenty of wagging tails and happy sniffing!
🎓 Each session builds on the last, guiding you and your dog from beginner to confident scent detectives.
📍 Location: details confirmed on booking
🎟 Spaces are limited for quality coaching — reserve your place early.
Scentwork
A dog’s nose is remarkable and is their most developed sense. We see the world through our eyes, they see the world through their nose. During these fun workshops we will learn more about this amazing ability and allow them to really shine and show us what they can do, whilst we learn how we can give them really powerful enrichment opportunities that will help them feel calmer, happier and more fulfilled. Searches and scentwork games are also fabulous tools for behaviour modification work and for building confidence and creating positive associations with their environment.
They will love showing you what they can do!
These workshops are all 2.5 hour long based on 6 dogs taking part. If there are less dogs we may finish sooner but will still have covered all elements in a fun filled session. A minimum of 3 dogs are required for the workshop to proceed.
Spectators are welcome.
We love running these workshops and we look forward to seeing you there!
Join The Waitlist For Part 7
Course includes:
Part 1 Passive searches, teaching our dog to “find it” amongst different items, looking at luggage searches, and furniture searches.
Part 2 Passive searches, teaching our dog to find a particular scent in different scenarios, furniture, vehicle searches.
Part 3: Active searches, teaching a retrieve of a non scented item.
Part 4: Active searches looking for a scented item and bringing it back to the handler.
Part 5: Scent discrimination in passive searches. Finding the scent we want among other distracting scents.
Part 6: Finding people!
Part 7: Retrieving personal items lost and found.