Sir Alfred's Lockdown Scentwork Journey

17/05/2023

Anyone who would like to book a 1-2-1 session with me either online or in person (located in Castle Coombe) drop me a message on 07795053623 and we can set something up 😊

18/05/2022

I'm so glad to see many people are still enjoying this page. This is a project I did last year and I do not monitor the page anymore. If you would like any help progressing your Scentwork or want to learn more please do head over to my business FB account Deliverance Dogs or check out my website www.deliverancedogs.co.uk. HAPPY TRAINING 👊❤️😊

10/02/2021

Hey guys, check out my new page.... 🐾🐕⭐️

Welcome to Deliverance Dogs, named after my best friend ‘Avonwolf Deliverance’ - my IGP Malinois. I will be periodically posting videos and bits of advice as well as answering any questions and sharing information about my own dog’s journey’s. Any special requests do let me know 😉 Picture of Del (Avonwolf Deliverance) and me in Basic Position training for IGP. Do introduce yourselves and tell us what you and your K9 partners get up to as well as sharing pictures so we can all get acquainted. Happy dog training!!! 🐾❤️💥

08/02/2021

Now that we have gone through all of the basic elements for Scentwork UK we will move from daily videos to periodic posts and videos. Do continue to ask any questions you have and share your videos with us. I just love following and being a part of all of your journeys. It can be difficult for me to see the new comments in older posts so if you tag me Jenny Richards in the comment it will help me find it quickly. Thanks, and good luck with your doggie journeys...whatever they may be 😊 Another photo of handsome Alfred just because ☺️

07/02/2021

DAY 28 - NOTES ON THINGS TO START DOING AT THIS STAGE… 👊

1) Set up your search area and incrementally start to leave the amount of time that you leave it set up before starting to work it with your dog. At a Scentwork competition if you are drawn last it could take between 30 – 60 mins (maybe even longer) before you get your turn in the search area. You need to prepare your dog for the sent being left out this long before you work it. Don’t be tempted to jump from 2 mins straight to 45. Build this up slowly to give your dog confidence to be successful with this new criteria.

2) Start another jar of cloves and put less in than the recommended amount, maybe 4/5. It is good practice to check this box. It always makes sense to train hard and trial easy. I will always train my dogs to be able to do more of them than is required on competition day. There will be all other sorts of factors that come into play on competition day such as nerves and stress and other factors out of our control. I don’t want to be asking my dog to perform the most difficult criteria on this day. I like it to be slightly easier than the top end of training. This is simply setting the dog up for success. When you do the less scented articles for the first time go back a few levels with the search and give your dog an easy search area to set them up for success. Then when they have proved they can identify the scent in an easier search start upping the level of difficulty.

3) Similarly to above start to incorporate more difficult articles into your clove pot to use in the search. You can use materials that don’t hold the scent as easily (where the particles in the items are closer together) such as post-it notes and things made of plastic.

HAPPY TRAINING 🌟

05/02/2021

DAY 27 - VEHICLE SEARCH 🚙 😁

04/02/2021

DAY 26E 💥

04/02/2021

DAY 26D 💥

04/02/2021

DAY 26C 💥

04/02/2021

DAY 26B 💥

04/02/2021

DAY 26A - INCREASING THE DIFFICULTY OF THE SEARCH 💥
Today's video comes in 5 parts (thanks to my lack in technology merging type things!) So there is an A,B,C,D and E. Do watch them in order and fingers crossed FB doesn't have a meltdown half way through me posting them 🤞

04/02/2021

DAY 25 - BRINGING EVERYTHING TOGETHER 😃⭐️https://youtu.be/HEMCIx7945o