Happy Dog Training

29/10/2026

🐾 Beginners School Trip! 🐾

Week 6 of 12 for our beginners, and today some of them swapped the familiar village hall for a little school trip! 🏫🐶

A fantastic opportunity to put their developing skills into practice in a completely new environment, starting to build that all-important link between searching and indication.

With cleaners, caretakers and all the usual school distractions going on around them, there was plenty to take in!

So proud of how these beginner dogs are progressing! 💙💛

It’s not just about teaching a dog to search — it’s about building the confidence, Focus & Teamwork to search anywhere! 🐾

09/10/2026

It is time to take a break 🏝️

Happy Dog Training will be closed 10-17th October.

All emails & messages will be responded to in order upon my return.

We will also be closed Tuesday 20th Oct due to a companionate day for a family funeral.

07/10/2026

A great day of scentwork earlier this week at one of my most popular venues 🐾👃

A brilliant search venue, giving plenty of opportunities to adapt the searches to suit a real mix of dog & handler abilities.

We covered lots throughout the day, including:
🐾 Discussions around systems of search and how we can apply them
🐾 Adapting searches to get the best from each individual dog
🐾 Observing what’s happening during the search, adapting
when needed and overcoming the challenges the environment presented
🐾 When & when not to help more as the handler
🐾 Introducing a new odour for some dogs within a more challenging environment
🐾 Building indication into the search for one dog

Lots of problem solving, learning and teamwork from both ends of the lead! 💙💛

A fab group of dogs and handlers to spend the day with 🐾

21/09/2026

🐾 WHAT A BUSY WEEK AT HAPPY DOG TRAINING! 🐾

It’s been another full-on week, with lots of dogs and handlers working through different stages of their scentwork journey 💙💛

🐾 Odour imprinting — building a strong understanding of target odour before taking those foundations forward and introducing the odour into environmental searches.

🐶 Beginner classes — including our puppies! Building those all-important foundations from the very start.

👃 Odour ID, Line-Ups & Carousels — stripping things back to work on odour recognition, discrimination, decision-making and clarity.

🛣️ Two-Day Route Searching Workshop — exploring the principles of route searching, the different methods used and how route searching can be adapted from operational applications for pet and sport dogs. This included working on developing search strategy, independence and teamwork between dog and handler, while considering how to apply these skills in a practical, engaging and appropriate way for each team.

It has been brilliant to see so many teams learning, progressing and building their skills.

Different dogs. Different stages. Different challenges 💙💛

Confidence - Focus - Teamwork

16/09/2026

updated: Space sold!

**1 space has become available** Monday 5th October at the same venue.

The November spaces are now full!

To book visit:
happydogtraining.as.me

Open to dogs working on Gun oil and/or Kong

*** 1 space available on each date ***

Mon 9th November & Monday 16th November.

Open to dogs working on Gun Oil and/or Kong.

To book visit:

happydogtraining.as.me

15/09/2026

🐾✈️ WHAT A VENUE ✈️🐾

A fantastic workshop today — a brilliant novel venue that always gives our dogs and handlers plenty to think about!

Lots of problem solving — this venue is particularly interesting because the environment can really make you think. Wind, changing airflow and the elements all influence how odour moves and where it can be found, meaning the picture presented to the dog isn’t always as straightforward as we might expect. Rather than simply finding the hide, it is often about watching the dog, interpreting what the odour is doing and working together to solve the problem as a team.

Some brilliant searching, thoughtful handling and great teamwork throughout the day.
🐕✈️ 🌬️

💙 💛 Confidence – Focus – Teamwork 💙💛

10/09/2026

🐾 A busy couple of days at Happy Dog Training! 🐾

Today saw Week 1 of our two 12-week Beginners Scentwork Courses get underway, with new teams starting right from the foundations and beginning their scentwork journey. 💙💛

And last night was Week 1 of our 3-week New Odour Workshop, with teams starting the process of introducing, recognising and building confidence on a new target odour.

Different stages, different training goals — but the same focus on building confident, motivated dogs and strong handler-dog partnerships. 🐕👃

Lots of learning, lots of sniffing… and plenty more to come! 💙💛