LK9 Services

28/08/2025

Some of my fave photos that I have taken of clients dogs on their walks over the last few days 🥰

27/08/2025

🌲 Tuesday Evening Mantrailing 🌲
Last night we headed back to one of our favourite woodland venues with 5 brilliant teams, all at different stages of their mantrailing journeys.

🐾 Terry had his very first go at this game of hide and seek – and those beagle genes kicked in beautifully!👏🏻
🐾 Team Hugo are building towards Level 2, though a cheeky deer crossing the path turned it into a real learning opportunity 🦌😂
🐾 Clive started off in his own little world, but soon got focused and worked nicely.
🐾 Neve showed off her usual cleverness – such a fabulous team.
🐾 And Ginny… wow! Normally a calm, steady girl, but the last couple of sessions she’s been positively speedy, finishing trails with full body waggles when she finds her missing person.

Plenty of chat, lots of learning, and great fun- the perfect way to spend a Tuesday evening with our dogs. ❤️

25/08/2025

On Saturday evening some of our LK9 Mantrailers got together for a social .
Food 🥘 Drink 🍹 Chat 💬 Dogs 🐶 Laughs 😂
And to top it all, £120 raised for the charity Hearing Dogs 🥰
Think this is the start of an annual summer social and fundraiser😃

Sorry folks, I didn’t take many photos so not everyone is included 😕

24/08/2025

A few clips from the last couple of days of mantrailing 🐕‍🦺😊

24/08/2025

🌽 Saturday Morning Mantrailing at the Maize Maze! 🌽

Five teams took on three trails each, working through the twists and turns of the mazes and stretching out into the open spaces. With endless junctions to puzzle through, the dogs also faced extra challenges — a steep bridge to negotiate and even scent transfer article-start.

As the morning went on, things got busier, so we added in plenty of real-world distractions: people (big and small!), other dogs, games being played… and the mouth-watering smell of bacon drifting across the maze! 🥓🐾

Everyone did brilliantly, but two special shout-outs:
⭐ Romeo, who showed so much more confidence than in previous sessions.
⭐ Alfie, our 14-year-old deaf superstar, who squeaked with excitement and absolutely loved the game 🥰

22/08/2025

Four teams joined me in Evesham today and, as often happens, I had a plan and it had to be adapted 😉

It wasn’t the busiest venue, but it was a tough one – lots of dog walkers use this area, which means endless “pee-mail” and dog scents for our dogs to work through. They all did brilliantly at ignoring the public 👏

Two teams came out a little lethargic on the first trail, so we kept things shorter and motivating to get them going. The other two took on some new challenges, with pointers to help keep things smoother and prevent frustration or over-excitement at the starts.

The setting was beautiful, the sun came out, and some of us even enjoyed a riverside lunch afterwards – perfect 👌

21/08/2025

Gotta love the marvels of a dogs nose 🥰

Did you know that the tiny vertical groove between a dog’s nose and upper lip actually has a purpose? It’s called the vegetal groove (or philtrum), and it’s not there by accident!

Each time a dog licks its lips, a bit of saliva collects in that groove. Through a process called capillarization, the moisture travels up to the nose — helping keep it damp.

And why does that matter? Because a moist nose is much better at capturing and holding scents from the air. 🌬️✨ That’s part of what makes a dog’s sense of smell so incredibly powerful!

Nature’s design is always so clever, isn’t it? 🐕💛

20/08/2025

🐾✨ Tuesday Teatime Mantrailing Fun! ✨🐾

What a brilliant session we had with 5 amazing teams, each smashing out two trails 💪👃

With dogs working at different levels, the trails were tailored to their skills and goals – from motivating intensity starts to tricky scent transfer at junctions. 🧩🐶

🌟 Cadi – proving mantrailing is for all ages! At 12 years young she showed her love of hunting the trail layer ❤️
🌟 Bruno – calm, focused, nose down and gave the most beautiful sit indications 👏👌
🌟 Max – a little unsettled at first, but a change of surface and area brought out his best on trail two 🐾✨
🌟 Millie – her usual whirlwind self 🌪️, charging along at breakneck speed but still making spot-on decisions 🎯
🌟 Midge – needed to investigate EVERYTHING on trail one 👀😂 but absolutely shone on a different surface! Plus, her mum nailed the learning points about starts 🙌

Super teamwork, brilliant progress, and lots of wagging tails 🐕💖
Well done everyone – you smashed it! 🎉👏

19/08/2025

Full report to come tomorrow morning but here’s a snippet of what today’s five teams got up to. Some fabulous work from dogs and handlers 😀

18/08/2025

17/08/2025

🚜 Fabulous Farmyard Fun 🚜

Today I ran two sessions at our lovely farm venue, massive thanks to Alison and Toby for letting us use the space 🙏🏻

🌞 Early Morning Group completed two trails – the first around the fields and gardens, and the second weaving in and out of the farm buildings and machinery. Plenty of unusual hiding spots for our trail layers and great challenges for the dogs!

🐾 Frankie is growing in confidence each session – today he even puzzled his way to his trail layer hiding in a JCB bucket!
🐾 Lottie worked her way through cool alleyways into the old dairy 🐄
🐾 Mitch was his usual enthusiastic self, bowling up to his trail layers full of energy 😂
🐾 Doris had the tough challenge of working on her home turf – moments of brilliance, and moments of distraction (as we’d expect when it’s your farm!).

Such a lovely group of ladies who were happy to get up early so the second group could finish before it got too hot 🙏🏻

🌾 Second Group
Our more experienced teams tackled some longer trails followed by farm building searches.

🐶 Bruno smashed his longest trail to date at 400m – absolutely fabulous! 🤩 This team has really come on in leaps and bounds 👏🏻
🐶 Jaffa (the third Vizsla of the day!) hadn’t done a long trail in around 6 months, but powered through a 400m trail with barely a detour. Nice, confident, steady trailing 😀
🐶 Lottie, more used to urban trails, showed she could stay focused in rural conditions too – completing a fantastic 600m trail 💪
🐶 Blaze mixed roads and paths for an impressive 900m trail 🤩 although negotiating a stile did make him think😂
🐶 Echo, our most experienced team of the day, worked a 900m trail with everything thrown in – road crossings, gates, junctions, a bridge and even a deer! 🦌

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It was a fabulous day at a lovely venue – everyone commented on how great it was to work the dogs in such unusual areas. 💛