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Me & My Dog Academy offers behavioural help, puppy classes, dog training classes and lots of fun.

08/05/2026

Whats going on in Scent Club this month? It is Club's First Birthday, so theres a lot to celebrate and get stuck in with! 🎂🥳

🏆 The Monthly Challenge was themed on reflection over the training people have done in the last year. I'm really looking forward to seeing the submissions for this one!

💪 Our two Club Training Days this month are split, one on Tracking to improve the skillsets of the trailing dogs; and the other for Detection to work on Independence of the handler.

🎂 Our Birthday month is celebrated by the Birthday Bingo event - completing scentwork challenges with plenty of awards to be won along the way... great fun.

🐶 A 2x Day Training Weekend with Georgie Jones building on from the Cognition Testing to understand how we can take those scores and enact them in the detection training we do.

😇 Another one of our fab Pessimism Vs Optimisim workshops, getting to understand our dogs better so we can set up training in the best way for them.

🤓 Our monthly Geek-Feature Mini Lecture... theme is a secret!

🤫 And another Special Event will be launching at the end of the month with bookings going live on Friday 22nd May... more details for Club members coming soon.

If you LOVE any kind of scentwork (trailing, detection, tracking etc) and you want to join the best community in the world. Then nows your chance to get stuck in. You can join here: https://scentclub.mamda.co.uk/checkout/scent-club-subscription 💚

14/04/2026

When I say that Scent Club is jam packed... I really mean it! 🤣

We're already into another epic month of Club, with amazing in-person training opportunities, online support & self-paced courses, and loads more. It's hard to believe that Scent Club will have its first birthday at the end of the month - times flies when you're having fun and all that! 😍

With that being said, April is going to be the last month for a little while where new-recruits can join the Club. From the end of this month the "entrance doors" will be closing as I really want to focus on the amazing community already in. So if you've been umming or ahhing about joining, now is the time! We look forward to having you join us 💚

Join here: https://scentclub.mamda.co.uk/checkout/scent-club-subscription 🐶

05/04/2026

Happy Easter everyone! 🐰🐣

Our Detection Teams took on my Eggstravaganza Easter Egg Hunt with style 🥚🧺

One venue; 7 search areas; 20 hides; 5 Teams and no clues.

The Teams had to work together to decide which dogs would suit which areas, and navigate through the venue accordingly. They had to either call a find, or call the area clear if they thought there were no more hides.

All the while each Easter egg provided them with a letter to solve their own puzzle to the location of the Easter-egg stash!

It was an amazing display of Teamwork, both within the group and between handler and dogs. And a great reminder to trust your training! 💚🫡

04/04/2026

Any excuse to get a bit mad, and I'll do it - our Easter trailing event was hilariously wonderful in all the best ways! 🐣

20 Teams tackling our trails at the Warehouses, but rather than hunting for live-humans they were hunting for human-articles in the form of plastic Easter eggs. I love article trailing for promoting value in the scent (not the person), and increasing focus - the Easter eggs were a fun way to really test this. Needless to say the dogs of course did amazing.

Inside each Easter egg was a clue to the location of an actual chocolate-egg for the human ends of the leash. Watching both dogs & humans mess around with an Easter Egg Hunt of their own was absolutely brilliant. I loved it! ❤️

27/03/2026

Our Scent Clubbers aren't just stuck learning from me, they're also offered the opportunity to work with some of the greats of the dog sports world! 😍👏

And early this month they were treated to a workshop with Jenny Richards from Deliverance Dogs on Relationship, Play & Motivation, and especially how to integrate that into their sport & scent work 💚

It was a fantastic day with nine Teams really getting to the core of their relationships, where they're strong, where there's some work to do, and what natural stuff we can use. Jenny works with Relationship & Sport in a whole new way, and I've loved it since the moment I first worked with her a few years ago. It was a joy to see these Teams begin their journeys into this world too! 🌎

And good news: Jenny will be coming back in a few months time! This will be a follow on & introduction open to Club Members Only! You can join Club here: https://scentclub.mamda.co.uk/checkout/scent-club-subscription 💻

22/02/2026

Wow! Another fantastic SCI SCENT conference 🧬👃🐶

Bringing together all sorts of professionals from scientists to pet-proffesionals and getting to share knowledge on all types of canine-scent. It was an absolutely fabulous lineup both days - so much to take away!

🧬 Dr Emily Bray on Canine Cognition and it's many facets from Puppies to Seniors.

🐶 Bart Rogers on Selection of the Detection Dogs; including what breeds and traits to look at.

💪 Dr Lucia Lazarowaski on how best to Optimize the Working Dog to get the best results with Science-Driven approaches.

📝 Dr Adee Schoon on the Recipe for the Best Detection Dog, and everything the handler should know to set the hound up for success.

🚔 Stéphan Peterson on how we can use detection dogs in multiple different ways as Bio-Sensors on the Frontlines.

🦏 Mike Veale on using Detection Dogs in the fight against Wildlife Crime, protecting species like Rhino, Elephant, Pangolin and many more.

My mind is swimming with inspiration after this fabulous weekend. I've got one more day of exciting stuff tomorrow (more on this later!) and then I'll be thinking about how to implement all of the information into MAMDAs day to day training 😍

Thank you for another fabulous conference! Looking forward to SciScent 2027 already 👏

19/02/2026

Fantastic workshop last night with my Scent Club group - inspired by the act of 'giving things up' for Lent, the workshop focused on 'giving up bad handler habits' for Scentwork! 💚🤗

Be a better handler, and your dog can be a better worker! We focused on:

⌚ Timing of the marker
👋 Clarity in tasking
👯 Not cramping the dog
🥩 Avoiding the feeding frenzy
〰️ Good line handling skills

Was a great workshop, the dogs were superb and the handlers weren't too bad either 😉

The highlight for me was seeing how such tiny changes could have huge impact on the dogs confidence & understanding of the game. Loved it!

Keep your peepers peeled Club lot for some up coming online-content that will continue working with this theme 👀

And if you want to join Club, you can do so here: https://scentclub.mamda.co.uk/checkout/scent-club-subscription 💚

15/02/2026

What a day! ☔💕

Our Valentines Trailing Special "Disastrous Dates" was a total wash out, but spirits remained high and we had an absolute blast!

We tested the Team on a whole host of skills inspired by terrible dates:

🕙 Date running late?! Tackle some aged trails.
😳 Date hiding in the loos?! Try your paws at concealed finds.
🏃 We got a runner! Walking finds? Nope, lets try some running finds!
👻 Ghosted?! What happens when there’s no person there to find?!
👯 Double date terror?! Figure out who your real date is on a split trail.
🐱 Catfished?! Identify your correct-date from the duds!

All this and chocolate, and home made biscuits. Couldn't have been a more perfect day, if it could have stopped torrential raining that is 😭

Utter troopers, and the dogs were AWESOME. A lot of 'firsts' with these technical skills and they nailed them 💕

Happy Valentines! 🌹

14/02/2026

Oh what better way to spend Valentine's then testing the dogs searching skills in a new novel environment 😍❤️

We had an absolute blast today at Fieldtastic getting to use their awesome barn for a Valentine's Special Scentwork session. It was such a laugh and the dogs really were pushed to work through some tough questions!

The 'Whose More Likely To' game between Dogs & their Handlers was particularly funny. Can't wait to work at this super space again - was a great afternoon.

Happy Valentine's 🌹💕

29/01/2026

FEBRUARY CLASS UPDATES 🐶💚

‼️ Just ONE spot left for our February puppy group! Bookable here: https://mamda.co.uk/puppy-classes/

‼️ Just ONE spot left for our February teens group too! Bookable here: https://mamda.co.uk/teen-classes/

☕️ Two spaces left four our Cafe-Settling course - perfect for building your dogs ability to come with you on Cafe/Pub Trips! Bookable here: https://mamda.co.uk/dog-classes/

🦮 Three spaces left (on various dates / venues) for Introductions to Mantrailing - the best scentwork sport ever! Book here: https://bookwhen.com/mamda-trailingintros

1️⃣ And just two places left for One-to-Ones on Friday or Saturday mornings. More details here: https://mamda.co.uk/one-to-ones/

Looking forward to having you join us! 👏

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Barns Road
Ferndown
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Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	9am - 9pm
Friday	9am - 9pm
Saturday	9am - 9pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

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http://www.mamda.co.uk/

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