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Dog trainer & scent work instructor based in Lancashire
🐾 Trail Hunt International
🐾 Scent Detection
🐾 Mantrailling
🐾 Tracking
🐾 Scent Walks
🐾 Scent Support
Experienced in working with overseas rescue, nervous/anxious & reactive dogs

08/11/2026

On a very bleak, foggy Sunday morning four of my Supper Sniffer Squad showed up for our Trail Hunt International free-trailing "Train & Test" session.

- Did the weather put them off?.....No
- Did everyone work super hard?.....Absolutely!
- Did all four teams pass their Free-trailing achievement test?....Why of course they flippin' did! 🥳🥳🥳

Great work squad - you smashed it 👏👏👏

08/11/2026

💛💛 Pop Quiz 💛💛

In the first part of this video you'll see an illustration of where the odour trail was laid.

Watch the path all four dogs took in comparison to where the Trail Hunt International trail had been laid.

So! What do you think was going on environmentally that could have influenced the trail the dogs actually took? 🤔🧐

Comment your thoughts below 👇

07/11/2026

Kicking off another team with their Enigma Canine Scent Work Partnership Scent Detections Foundations course today.

Jane & Briar are completing the course as a 1:1 which gives me lots of focused time to teach them the foundations 💙

Week one is all about scent identification and getting the dog to understand that a particular smell = something great happens!
For Briar, that "something great" is spread cheese 😋

Great start for the 6 week course - well done team 👏👏👏

01/11/2026

Understanding how the dogs may interpret the odour picture in Scentwork is really important ‼️

During our Trail Hunt International Club session today, the dogs were learning how to find their pods when they had been lifted up off the ground, which until now, is always where they would find their pods.

Here is Briar, who has just turned 1 year old and is your typical giddy yellow Labrador. Scentwork really gets her to focus and use her brain 🧠

This video shows her working her way around the bench, where it is likely odour molecules had travelled through the wooden slats in the bench and were presenting themselves on the other side. The pod had been in situ for about 15 minutes and another dog had run the same trail previously which would have affected air movement and potentially dispersed the odour molecules wider.

Studying the Enigma Canine Trusted Instructors Advanced Search Analysis course with Alexandra Butler is really pushing my understanding of odour dynamics and how it affects the dogs. So watching this at the time was fascinating for me (which you can probably hear in my voice) 😉😆

Briar starts her Enigma Canine Scent Work Partnership Scent Detections Foundations with me next week and I think she's going to be a little superstar ⭐

01/11/2026

🔊SOUND ON🔊

When one of your Scentwork dog handlers makes a statement like this "oh interesting air flow in here"....I know my work is done! 😁

I had a big smile on my face when Wendy said this....totally unprompted by anything I said!

Reading the dog is one thing, but the ability to factor in environmental impacts that may influence your dog's search is a whole other level!

Well done team 💙🩵💙

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Preston
PR44TH

Website

http://www.helpinghoundsdogtrainingacademy.com/

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