ScentOps Gold Training Day

Service Description

Positively Canine has teamed up with Laura from K9 Find it to bring you this ScentOps Gold training day. Your day will run from 10am till 4pm (ish) & will involve a learning about what is involved in a Gold trial. Some of the challenges handlers & dogs may face including planning your search. You will then have the chance to complete 2 gold search areas with verbal feedback judged by Jo & Laura. Laura has been fascinated by the olfactory skills of dogs for over a decade, leading her to explore a variety of disciplines. She has qualified and deployed two of her hounds as scent specific trailing dogs with the police, and currently trains her own dogs in HRD and digital hardware detection. A qualified instructor with both UK and Dutch organisations, she enjoys the variety of methodologies available to students of the nosework sports, seeking to find the most appropriate way to solve the problems teams face throughout their journey. Laura has a particular love for “the geeky stuff”, including the impact of ethology, air flow and environmental impacts on odour, and independence vs interdependence of the human/dog team during the search. This day is open to anyone wishing to learn more about Gold trials and will be hugely beneficial to anyone who may be considering moving up to Gold. Refreshments are provided but please do bring lunch As dogs are worked one at a time must be okay settling in vehicles. Please note location will be confirmed nearer the time but it will be within half an hour of Northallerton.