Ruffmutz offers one-to-one scentwork sessions, either in your own home or out and about, and we’re excited to share our enthusiasm with you.
Scentwork is a great fun activity, we all know dogs love to sniff … lamp posts, trees, anything and everything! Why not add in an extra element to that, let us become a part of their favourite activity?
Lots of Ruffmutz clients will already be familiar with scentwork; I often include elements of it in training and behaviour sessions if it’s of benefit to the dog, but what is it actually good for?
- Confidence building: sniffing is a great way for your dog to explore the environment at their own pace and this helps build confidence
- Teamwork: our noses are pretty rubbish by comparison to a dogs. There’s no way we could find a hidden object in a field using our nose, but a dog absolutely can, and learning to trust in your dogs abilities is a great way to strengthen our bond. Watching them work is absolutely amazing!
- Fun & enrichment: scentwork is great fun. Most dogs love it and as it’s easy to do with very little equipment, making it easy and low cost for us as owners to continue practicing, outside of the one to one sessions..
- Practical use: when trained well, you may find your dog can do very useful things like find keys, phones etc dropped on a walk.
- Suitable for any age and breed: scentwork is very versatile. I first got into it with my previous dog when she became a little arthritic so could no longer do things like agility or other high impact activities. As we can choose where the item is hidden, scentwork can be accessible for any dog, young, old, reactive, anxious … the list goes on!
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Scentwork sessions are aimed at everyone from complete beginners, to those wanting help on specific areas.
If scentwork sounds like something you’d like to try with your dog, Ruffmutz offers introductory sessions, regular progression sessions, and more tailored sessions such as building scentwork into walks, or using scentwork as part of injury rehabilitation.
I am one of the founders of Scent and Track UK, a specialist training organisation for Tracking and Detection.
Scent and Track UK aims to provide high quality, fun, courses and workshops to help you share our passion for all things scentwork.
See the website for full details of upcoming courses, including S&T Scent Camp, Manhunt, hosted specialist trainers and our regular workshops!