Scent work helps you build a better relationship with your dog and your dog will benefit from increased optimism and confidence as well as being tired and happy
What doggy facts I shared in last week’s free webinar
At the free “Your Dog Nose Best” webinar last week I talked about why your dog’s brain is mainly dedicated to smell and shared some mind blowing facts, such as:
- Your dog can wiggle their nostrils separately
- Your dog is simultaneously breathing in and out at the same time
- AND they’re running two separate olfactory programs in their nose and brain continuously
(You can watch the webinar replay here.)
Dogs react differentially to the smells of people according to their emotional states and health. Dogs are used to detect psychosis in children and adults, predict epileptic fits, and alert diabetics. They can detect cancer, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s, bacterial infections and COVID, often with an accuracy far superior than other tests.
Your dog really is amazing
And few pet owners understand what incredible superpowers their dogs have.
If you want to help your dog develop their sniffing superpower and build a stronger and better relationship into the bargain, then why not join in with our new Nose Nerds programme?
Nose Nerds is a monthly membership programme which will give you all sorts of different scent-based games to play. You’ll get weekly exercises and games which will develop your dog’s skills (and yours), and a range of different training exercises which will help you solve various mysteries and crimes that will be coming up!
How joining Nose Nerds will help develop your dog
There will be something new each week, either a new game, a new training idea, or a mystery to solve. There will also be monthly live webinars to increase your theoretical and practical knowledge as well as answer any questions you have. Each game will have an accompanying downloadable PDF to build your Nose Nerds library.
The games and exercises will cover active searching (where the dog brings back the item), and passive searching (to teach your dog to indicate where an item is hidden). We’ll teach your dog to find particular scents, to track and find people, lost property and so much more. Each game can be played around your home and garden or out and about, but you don’t have to be traipsing round fields (unless you want to!).
The full programme starts in March but we’re putting a few basic games up before then so you can get started with the fun!
Sign up now to find five games to get you started. No payments will be taken until we start properly in March but signing up now gets you the special launch price. There’s no minimum tie-in, you can cancel whenever you want. And 10% of all profits are going to Medical Detection Dogs, so you’ll be supporting a great cause at the same time.
Dog games for you to work on at your own pace
Over the next week I’ll be adding some preparation notes of things you might want to gather together ready for the programme to start properly from March.
There’s no pressure to keep up – you can work through the games at your own pace and in your own way. All the materials and videos will stay up in the Nose Nerds course in our Down Dog online site and you get access while you remain a member.
Scent work helps you build a better relationship with your dog and your dog will benefit from increased optimism and confidence as well as being tired and happy.
Come and join the Nose Nerds gang! And tell your friends…
Keep training and stay safe,
Carol
PS Your dog will need some basic training to join Nose Nerds – if you need help with that, join our Perfect Pet course starting this Saturday (20th Feb)
