Scent Quest

13/04/2026

Yesterday we ran two trials for the The National Nosework Association at a charity warehouse in Clevedon. We started with a Foundation Level in the morning, with lots of first timers dipping their toes in. All ten teams had lovely results, and two teams, Alice & Luna and Chris & Agnes, have now staged up to the next level.

The winner was Anita & Prue, who also earned a Synergy badge for their beautiful interior search.
The reserve team was Chris & Agnes.

In the afternoon we ran an Entry Level trial for six teams, where we saw a really nice standard of searching in a tricky environment.

The winning team was Beth & Fawkes, who were the only ones to find all the hides in all the elements.
The reserve team was Faye & Pippie, who also earned a Synergy for their great exterior search.
Jan & Onyx as well as Steph & Olive also both have now staged up to Enhanced.

A big thank you to our judge Rosie Reid 😊

Well done everyone!

10/04/2026

We had a delightfully busy Easter weekend, with 23 dogs taking part across two Nosework Games competitions and a full day of Easter egg hunt warehouse workshops. We started off at the Rugby Club on Sunday with a Level 1 NWG with 13 teams taking on the Easter challenges. Results as follows:

All Clear:
1st Elly & Otis
2nd Chris & Agnes
3rd Dee & Gemma

Hidden Treasure:
1st Dee & Gemma
2nd Rachel & Manney
3rd Georgina & Sky

Go To Source:
1st Carol & Conker
2nd Georgina & Sky
3rd Marie & Eddie

Overall:
1st Chris & Agnes
2nd Dee & Gemma
3rd Elly & Otis
4th Georgina & Sky

Next we had our Level 2 trial at the Rugby Club, with seven teams competing:

Boom:
1st Dee & Gemma
2nd Elly & Otis
3rd Marie & Eddie

Distance:
1st Alice & Luna
2nd Dee & Gemma
3rd Marie & Eddie

Needle in a Haystack:
1st Rosie & Tide
2nd Marie & Eddie
3rd Dee & Gemma

Overall:
1st Dee & Gemma
2nd Marie & Eddie
3rd Alice & Luna
4th Elly & Otis

On Monday we headed over the warehouse in Clevedon where teams were given the challenge of searching the whole warehouse to see how many Easter eggs they could find. The eggs were hidden within 1m of a gun oil hide, so it required dog and handler to truly be a team to find them. Each egg had a slip of paper in it with a secret word, as proof that the team had found that egg. I’ll do another post soon to share those results 🐰🐰

24/03/2026

A few updates:

Firstly, it’s lovely to confirm that Scent Quest really is the treasure at the end of the rainbow. Thanks to Carol for the photo ☺️

Secondly, those who have been coming to sessions recently have probably met Elly, who has been shadowing me. I’m really pleased to say that, from next week, Elly will be available to run some sessions on her own on certain Mondays and Thursdays. These are now available to book through the booking system 😁

There will be a temporary pause on “Intro to Scentwork” sessions, although a waitlist is available for anyone who is keen to join. This pause is to make sure we have enough availability for those already training, and also to give me some time to add some exciting new elements to future intro sessions.

In addition, for the first time since starting Scent Quest, I’ll be making a small price increase from April for one-to-one and enrichment sessions. Packages will still be available and will continue to offer a discount compared with booking single sessions. Membership and Scent Club prices will remain the same.

Speaking of Scent Club, we’ll also be introducing new Saturday morning Scent Clubs from mid April. Woohoo!

There are also lots more workshops and competitions (NNA and Nosework Games) on the horizon, as well as, of course, the launch of the Scentwork Badge Club — more information on that coming soon!

Thank you, as always, for all your support. We really do have such a lovely little community of sniffy dogs 🥰🐾

08/03/2026

We had a lovely Sunday morning today running a Foundation Level NNA trial at a charity warehouse in Clevedon. Ten teams came to compete and everyone went home with at least one badge. This was the first time competing for a few of the dogs (and handlers!), so a special well done to those teams.

Rosie Reid was our judge and set some great searches for the dogs and even managed to snap a few pics during the interior search, so a big thank you to her!

Our winners were Elly & Otis who also earned a synergy badge and have now staged up to the next level.

Reserve was earned by Chris & Agnes.

Well done everyone!

06/03/2026

Super proud of my girl today for coming in Reserve! She worked really hard and did some nice focused searching, especially in the exterior area where there were squirrels teasing her. We missed one tricky hide that we couldn’t quite problem solve in the interior search (which lost us the win 🙈), but I’m so pleased with how we did. The best part was seeing how much Asha really enjoyed it 😊

Thank you to Gail from Worcester Search & Scent Dogs for running the trial, and to Elly for covering my afternoon sessions today so Asha and I could go compete!

We have now qualified for Enhanced, but we’re going to try a few more at the current level to see if we can get our Skills Awards before moving up.

04/03/2026

On Sunday I joined Zita of Scent Quest at a challenging but great fun charity warehouse for some scentwork workshops.

It was so lovely to see the dogs and handlers grew in confidence during the workshops

🙏Huge thank you Zita for inviting me

Photos are available to view and purchase at the following link;

https://rebeccareedphotography1.shootproof.com/gallery/SCENTQUEST/album/22284211

26/02/2026

We had an absolute blast searching at Rockaway Park earlier this week. Such a weird and wonderful place! Perfect for building confidence in searching in unusual environments. And the sun even came out too! Huge thank you to Becky for taking photos 😄 I'm so pleased to have found such a cool search area - can't wait to do more workshops here 🐾

The photos from Tuesdays scentwork workshop with Scent Quest are now live 🎉🎈🎉🎈

https://rebeccareedphotography1.shootproof.com/gallery/SCENTQUEST/album/22262856

These are such a fun album of photos. The venue was like nothing I have seen before, so much fun, so many hide options. The dogs and handlers were so impressive in such a weird environment.

🙏Huge thank you Zita for inviting me to come along. I am so looking forward to working with scent quest again 🥰

23/02/2026

When following the odour turns you into a little ballerina 🤭 Great work from Edie at her first workshop a few weeks ago in the Rugby Club. (Probably the first time the locker rooms have had a ballet performance!)

05/02/2026

Congratulations are in order for our amazing team of Elly and Otis, who won the NNA Foundation trial hosted by Ace Tails Scentwork at Hereford FC today! Well done!! 😄

26/01/2026

Our first NNA trial of 2026 was a Foundation Level at Yatton Rugby Club. I really enjoyed watching all the teams and seeing how everyone is improving, especially with the selection tests and exterior searches. The winning team was Beth & Sprout and the reserve team was Alice & Luna. I also gave out a synergy badge to Dee & Gemma for their teamwork and confidence in the exterior search. Super proud of everyone, well done to those who came!