Maddie’s Mantrailing

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We've been busy introducing new teams to the incredible world of Mantrailing. There's nothing quite like witnessing the...
04/06/2025

We've been busy introducing new teams to the incredible world of Mantrailing. There's nothing quite like witnessing the magic when a dog finds 'their'person for the first time! That moment of pure excitement and joy — trust us, it never gets old.

Here’s to new partnerships, happy trails, and the amazing bond between dogs and their hoomans.

Cracking morning spent at the waterfront today. Whilst the experienced dogs carried on their progressions with Jane, P...
24/05/2025

Cracking morning spent at the waterfront today. Whilst the experienced dogs carried on their progressions with Jane, Pedro, at 8 months old, demonstrated brilliantly how he is developing into a resilient, skilled, mantrailing dog. After a warm up of hunter trails, he smashed a trail that had distractions (not planned), surface transitions, open space and junctions, finishing with a sitting trail layer. We ended with short hunter trails so he could enjoy some quick reinforcing wins. So enjoyable watching him! Pedro and Dougie both took their first mantrailing steps at around 14/16 weeks old. Mantrailing is truly a sport for all dogs!

Lovely morning spent mantrailing in the sunshine! All the teams worked according to their level of progression. We had s...
12/05/2025

Lovely morning spent mantrailing in the sunshine! All the teams worked according to their level of progression. We had split starts, walking away and towards trail layers, decoys, back trails, paddling!? (a new component for post trail!). Everyone worked their socks and paws off! Well done and thank you, Jane, for setting up some great trails for Wally!

We've been enjoying some wonderful mantrailing in the sunshine recently. Our wellies have also been enjoying a holiday, ...
04/05/2025

We've been enjoying some wonderful mantrailing in the sunshine recently. Our wellies have also been enjoying a holiday, let's hope it's a long one! 🤣🤞🏻

Mantrailing is a great sport for dogs,it's not too bad for hoomans as well!
15/04/2025

Mantrailing is a great sport for dogs,it's not too bad for hoomans as well!

The Doctor has a new companion! He was sent to lay a timey-wimey trail for the session today. Unfortunately he didn't ar...
15/04/2025

The Doctor has a new companion! He was sent to lay a timey-wimey trail for the session today. Unfortunately he didn't arrive to hide in the delorean in 1985 but ended up in the 1950's with a GPO van 🤣

We've had some great mantrailing sessions recently including our first at Hartlebury common. The sun even put in an appe...
02/04/2025

We've had some great mantrailing sessions recently including our first at Hartlebury common. The sun even put in an appearance....

It's been a busy couple of months trailing. We've enjoyed some lovely sunshine in some great venues with fabulous traili...
25/03/2025

It's been a busy couple of months trailing. We've enjoyed some lovely sunshine in some great venues with fabulous trailing teams. Spring is definitely in the air! If you'd like to find out more about Mantrailing and the sessions that we run, please message us

Mantrailing is a sport where dogs find a person by following their unique scent trail - it's also a cracking way of enjo...
02/03/2025

Mantrailing is a sport where dogs find a person by following their unique scent trail - it's also a cracking way of enjoying the sunshine on a Sunday afternoon!

At Maddies Mantrailing we're passionate about training and working with our dogs to use their amazing sense of smell to ...
26/02/2025

At Maddies Mantrailing we're passionate about training and working with our dogs to use their amazing sense of smell to locate people. I'm Jane and I founded Maddies Mantrailing after falling in love with the sport with my Flat-coated Retriever Maddie and deciding that I wanted to introduce this fascinating and rewarding activity to others. Qualifying as a Mantrailing Global instructor in April 2022 I am fortunate to have instructed and trained numerous teams of owners and their dogs many of whom still trail with me to this day.

I now also Mantrail with Rwbi my other flatcoat who I introduced to the sport as a puppy in May 2022.

I have recently been joined by Helen who is also a qualified Mantrailing Global instructor and who discovered mantrailing by attending one of my introduction sessions with her young Miniature Schnauzer Wally. Helen loved it so much that like me she has trained as an instructor and is continuing her mantrailing journey with me and Maddies Mantrailing.

We both also have experience of trailing my daughter's sprocker, Marlie. Working different breeds provides a great opportunity to develop our skills and knowledge.

Mantrailing is suitable and inclusive for all dogs no matter what their breed or age including those that are reactive to a range of environmental factors and who may not be able to participate in other types of dog sports or may even be blind or deaf. We have had a 14 week old puppy start their Mantrailing journey alongside an 11 year old, just showing that our dogs are never too young or elderly to learn new things! I

Between us we are wanting to continue to grow the amazing community that Maddies Mantrailing is. Whether you're a beginner or have some experience, you'll find a welcoming community and a chance to engage your dog in a mentally stimulating activity as well as deepen your bond through this exciting and rewarding activity. The locations we trail in are varied, ranging from the urban setting of a university campus to idyllic country parks and woods.

We will be updating our public page regularly with photos from our sessions highlighting the work we are doing, the fun we have and the wide range of breed types that trail with us.

To find out more about attending an introduction or progression session or just to have an informal chat please message us.

If you complete an introduction or progression session you will be invited to join the private Maddies Mantrailing Facebook group where you'll be able to access details and dates for all of our upcoming sessions.

Here are a few photos of us out working our dogs.

We have been back having some fun trailing at Avoncroft Museum of historic buildings. Love this place as it’s gives us s...
05/12/2023

We have been back having some fun trailing at Avoncroft Museum of historic buildings.
Love this place as it’s gives us some fantastic opportunities for a variety of interesting trails in and around the buildings that are there - including a church, cell block and privy and an amazing collection of telephone boxes through the ages!
Here are a few pictures from the 2 days we have spent there recently.

This is also a location that we are able to have exclusively to ourselves, apart from the staff that work there as we trail there on Mondays when it is closed to the public 🤗🐾🐾

A few pictures from our last 5 sessions over the weekend and yesterday. Saturdays Mantrailing was at Birmingham Universi...
07/11/2023

A few pictures from our last 5 sessions over the weekend and yesterday.
Saturdays Mantrailing was at Birmingham University, Sundays trailing at Somers Sports and Social club and yesterday back at the very lovely popular location Hartlebury Castle which we have exclusive use of on a Monday as it’s closed to the public.
A range of different progression targets were worked on with handlers and their dogs.
We had quite different weather conditions to work as well over the 3 days. Saturday was quite wet and windy Sunday and Monday much drier with some sunshine. As ever all dogs worked fabulously in the different conditions.
Yesterday we had some fun with dogs taking scent from pumpkins that were left over from the Halloween events at Hartlebury last week. 🎃🐾🎃

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