Coastal Canine Training Services

09/20/2025

We are looking forward to visiting Ottawa area for more seminars & a CDSA Trial for the first time in Ontario! Both open asap!

05/01/2025

What a crazy few weeks, so thankful to be welcomed to teach seminars in Terrace, BC with Kermode K9 Sports Club. Followed by off to Kamloops last weekend to teach another set of seminars with Northern Noses Pet Services. Packing up today off to Nova Scotia tomorrow for my next seminar instruction gig with Basics & Beyond Canine Skills! Pictured is my Terrace & Kamloops sets in April, thank you for all the hosts being so good to me and making this a thing! Thank you as well to all the great people that have come out to learn or participate. So many new friends! Excited for the next!

02/04/2025

What a weekend! We hosted a doubleheader, two different Canadian Detection Sport Association trials, two locations (DS1 in Port Moody & DS3 on Burnaby), and two days! Such a great turnout despite the snow forecast. We only got snow while we were at our locations but not on the way in or out! The snow added a fun layer to exteriors!

All teams did so well, and as always, we have a lot of thank you’s owed to a lot of people that make this all possible.

First off, Fashion Biz Wholesale in Burnaby, having businesses in the community that support these events is amazing. Please go check them out if you or your company is in the market for great clothing! They are always so accommodating to us.

Thank you to our judges for being not only outstanding professionals as always but also great sports with the snow: Allison Maxwell, Brenda Cox , and Lia Bijsterveld

We got to give away more cool swag; thank you to Fashion Biz for helping us with that! If you see one of our dark grey logo’d CDSA jackets around, they helped us set those up!

Thank you so, so much to all the volunteers. These events don’t run without people like you helping out. You are the lifeblood of any dog sport event and very appreciated.

Thank you to everyone that came out to participate as a team. When you are supporting Coastal Canine’s trials or CDSA, you are supporting two Canadian women-run organizations. We love watching all of your dogs and hope to see everyone for our next trial dates in 2025. Again, a major thank you to Fashion Biz for having us out! The professional 📸: Extraordinary Canines

12/18/2024

What a great first weekend of December! We hosted a DS2 trial the previous Sunday at Windsor Plywood Coquitlam, BC. Such a great turnout and what a great location to search. All teams did so well and as always we have a lot of thank you’s owed to a lot of people that make this all possible.

First off Windsor Plywood Coquitlam, having businesses in the community that support these events is amazing.
Windsor Plywood loves dogs so much they chose again to donate their whole rent fee for this event to the Coquitlam Animal Shelter
All of our participants were in particular awe of their doors, raw wood edged shelving & fixture selections! Please go check them out and support local! Their staff couldn’t be more welcoming and accommodating to us.

Thank you to our Officials, Megan Brooking for judging and Allison Maxwell for being a wonderful Search Official for another great trial in the books with nice pass rates.

We got to give away more cool swag, thank you to Fashion Biz Wholesale for helping us with that!

Thank you so so much to all the volunteers. These events don’t run without people like you helping out. You are the life blood of any dog sport event and very appreciated.

Thank you to everyone that came out to participate as a team. When you are supporting Coastal Canine’s trials or Canadian Detection Sport Association you are supporting two Canadian women ran organizations. We love watching all of your dogs, and hope to see everyone for our next trial dates in February. Again major thank you to Windsor Plywood Coquitlam and the owners there.

11/06/2024

December 8th DS2 Open now!

09/04/2024

04/02/2024

What a successful Amateur CDSA Trial in Maple Ridge today. As always we are nothing without our volunteers - thank you thank you thank you! We had an overall 93% pass rate and gave out 29 new Titles! Very proud of my Coastal students going 10teams/10titles. Thank you to our judges Brenda Cox & Megan Brooking! Thank you for everyone that attended - can’t wait for the next DS1 for everyone to try!

03/19/2024

Are you eligible for a DSV Title in Detection Sport? Info below:

What is a CDSA DSV Title?

DSV stands for Detection Sport Versatility Title. Detection sport is one of the few dog sports that have a vast range of organizations you can compete under. Each organization brings something different to the table. A team that trials under several organizations will be presented with different environments, search styles, time constraints, odours, odour strengths, passing criteria, and more. A team that shows proficiency in several organizations proves versatile in detection sports. At CDSA we would like to recognize these teams and encourage them to enjoy the many benefits and fun of different organizations and search styles.

DSV1 is to recognize teams that have completed titles in a minimum of 3 detection sport organizations. DSV2 is 5 organizations, and DSV3 is 7. ONE of the above totals can be a recognized online title. Please contact us if you want more information on which online programs we recognize for online titles. The remaining titles need to be achieved in person, in a blind test, for target oil and have proof of passing (certificates or online results on official websites). DSV1 must be completed before applying for DSV2 and 3. You do not need to be a CDSA member to qualify for DSV titles.

Common Detection Sport Organizations recognized:
CDSA
**NEW Super Scenter League
ABC Games
NACSW
CKC
C-Wags
Woofy Scenting Games (formerly K9SGG)
AKC
SDDA
UKC
Can include titles from ‘dead’ organizations as long as there is proof of a certificate.

Apply for yours on our website!
https://www.cdsa.ca/pages/detection-sport-versatility-titles

02/15/2024

Save the date lower-mainland for March 31st, 2024 - Maple Ridge, BC - Amateur Level (4 Runs available)! Hosted by and premium TBA soon!! 📸

02/11/2024

What a great weekend! We hosted our second Canadian Detection Sport Association DS1 & DS2 trial last Sunday at Windsor Plywood in Coquitlam. Such a great turnout and still what a great location to search. This was our largest trial to date with 195 searches within the day. All teams did so well and as always we have a lot of thank you’s owed to a lot of people that make this all possible.

First off Windsor Plywood Coquitlam, BC, having businesses in the community that support these events is amazing.
Windsor Plywood loves dogs so much they chose again to donate their whole rent fee for this event to the Coquitlam Animal Shelter! All of our participants were in particular awe of their doors, raw wood edged shelving & fixture selections! Please go check them out and support local! Their staff couldn’t be more welcoming and accommodating to us.

Thank you to our Officials, Megan Brooking & Lia Bijsterveld (DS1 Judges) & Allison Maxwell & Lâle Aksu (DS2 Judges) for a great job with all the search needs, de-briefs of kind words & other help or details.

We had a special guest (one of our CDSA NL judges) fly all the way from Newfoundland to shadow our day and how our trials are ran. Thank you Susan Hoyles for helping out along the way, it was a pleasure having you.

Thank you so so much to all the volunteers. These events don’t run without people like you helping out. You are the life blood of any dog sport event and very appreciated.

Thank you to our photographer Yaunna Rae Photography for all your hard work. She took over 3400 photos while staying for both levels ALL day, we are all excited to see the results upcoming. Give her a follow to keep up to date!

Thank you to everyone that came out to participate as a team. We had the first dog ever in Canada to obtain a DS2-Ex (Expert Title/3 all or nothing passes at that level) at this event. This is one of our Coastal Canine students, Benson the border terrier and his human Ashley and we are very proud of them. Not only were they the first but completed all their DS1 levels first as well!

If you got this far in the post and participated this day we would love to see a ribbon pic in the comment section below!

When you are supporting Coastal Canine’s trials or CDSA you are supporting two Canadian women ran organizations. We love watching all of your dogs, and hope to see everyone for our next trial date which will be announced soon! 🐾