Solway Scent and Search

31/12/2025

Wishing all of our clients a peaceful and happy New Year.

25/12/2025

21/11/2025

Fabulous day.....weather was kind, the venue perfect and the teams super. Intros for two very different dogs, Cinders and Purdy and their owner, Christine. Both dogs have taken to trailing like old pros and are already awesome. Loved catching up with Chris, Ailsa and Scarlett, Lynn and Gilly and Terrie and Dougie. It was super helpful having seasoned trailers to demo to our newcomer. Thanks to Paul for offering to trail lay and Jo for hosting, coffee, cake and biccies. Faisca did his first free trail (aka I'm not holding onto his line for an intensity cos I like living 🤣) and was like an Exocet honing in on his misper. Need more days like this 😍

14/11/2025

NEW SCENTSPORTS FOUNDATION COURSE

Looking for an alternative to wet and windy walks this winter?? Want to build resilience and confidence in your pup? Learn to work together as a team, harnessing your dog's superpower. We're offering a new 5 week Scentsports foundation course. Learn the basics of searching, teach your dog to identify and indicate on a specific odour and have tons of fun doing it. Sessions will take place Dog - Doggy Day Care in Carlisle who are kindly letting us use their awesome facility. The course will start on Friday 28th November at 6pm. DM me for more details or to register. Price for all 5 two hour sessions is £190 (£19/hour)

09/11/2025

Thanks to Jody McQuiston Cumbria Canine Services for inviting Solway Scent and Search back to deliver a scent workshop. This time we concentrated on rural large spaces, line-ups and had a little trial. Blown away by how well all teams did and great to see the progress they've all made. Looking forward to more sessions with a fab bunch of dogs and owners.

18/09/2025

Scentsational afternoon at Brunton Park. Dogs worked fantastically well in a challenging environment. Also challenging for those handlers more used to working their dogs off lead. Although a couple of the teams struggled with the unusual environment and wind conditions in the stand, everyone put in good searches. Pleased with my boy too. He ignored all the dropped food to concentrate on a quite difficult hide and then managed a walk around the golf course with bodyguard Roxy without any major meltdowns. Well done to all the teams. Looking forward to the next one👍

07/09/2025

Had a great day teaching a Scentsports technical skills progression. Lots of fun, progression and problem solving. Thank you Jody at Cumbria Canine Services for hosting. Looking forward to the next one 👍💪

23/08/2025

Interesting evening at Phase Purple. Bit of a refresher and some line handling and some unexpected searches in the dark. Work to do strengthening the indications but overall some super searches. Well done teams.

18/08/2025

For the last 3 weeks I've had the privilege of teaching scent classes Canine Services whilst Jody has been living a life of leisure and luxury. It's been great to see the progress of her teams and catch up with them all as well as meeting some super new dogs and their owners. They were all kind to the supply teacher and I totally enjoyed the cake 😂😂

11/08/2025

Scent session at Phase Purple on Thursday 14th August. Suitable for teams searching independently and indicating on a target odour

Session on Thursday 21st August at Phase Purple for beginners/novices or teams who don't yet have an indication.

Both sessions 6pm to 8pm. Message me to secure your spot 👍

16/07/2025

FULL

STADIUM SEARCHES!
I have been offered an amazing opportunity to use some of the areas at Carlisle United Football Club for scent detection training. This session is for dogs with an indication on a target odour. Spaces are very limited. Please contact me for more information. Thursday 18th September at 1pm. £45 per handler team.

09/07/2025

Quick update for those attending Scent class tomorrow evening. In anticipation of warmer weather, we will use the field. On arrival please turn left instead of right and drive up to the agility fields. See you tomorrow 😀