Scentventure Guide Justine

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Scentventure Guide Justine

Dog Trainer based in the North East England. Scentventure Guide and Mantrailing UK instructor.

19/11/2025

A big well done to Skye and Gillian, who scored highest in Sunday’s practice trial! 🥳

You might think Skye’s speed in completing the search, in the quickest time, is what brought home the points. In fact, there are no extra points for speed.

What helped them complete the search so effectively was a faultless search plan. Yes, Gillian came armed with a notebook in last-minute revision. How’s that for dedication? 💪

The key components of that search plan that they were marked on included having a methodical search pattern, working as a team with Gillian navigating the search and Skye using her nose, and a clear indication from Skye.

🥇They finished with a clean sweep, which is finding all the hides. These elements are what meant they absolutely smashed the search!

Well done, guys! 🥳🥳

PS Thanks to Tony the Turtle too for providing Skye’s motivation to find those hides 🐢🤣

18/11/2025

✨ Introduction to Gundog Workshop! ✨

Gundog training is one of my absolute favourite activities.

It’s the perfect mix of:

👃Using your dogs nose

👀Teaching real-life transferable training skills that can make a difference to your walks including loose lead walking, recall and fast focus

🧒🐕An opportunity to work as a team

🧡And of course fun with your dog

Katy, who has learnt Gundog training with her dog Fudge, said:

“Great fun. Fudge loves retrieving and it’s a really fun way to work on life skills.”

This workshop is part of my five-year Scentventure Guide celebrations and we are raising money for The Dziko Project, a charity close to my heart.

Who’s it for?

Any breed, any age dog ready to have a go at Gundog training. Ideal for dogs comfortable being in a field with other on lead dogs.

📅 When: 22nd November

📍 Where: Adventure Play, West Field

🔗Link to book in comments

16/11/2025

👃Well, that’s a wrap for this year’s trials!

I was very excited to jump into Trials this year, and I have to say, not only have I loved them, the attendees’ feedback has been amazing.

Gill with Skye, who attended today, said: “Huge thanks for today Justine 🧡 Really enjoyed it and so glad we gave it a go.”

Don’t worry if you’ve missed out this time. In 2026 I’m going to offer more, with both practice Trials and Trials.

A big thanks to for providing a clean sweep of cakes for everyone 😋. Though I’m afraid I don’t award brownie points…. But if I did FULL MARKS! 😂😂

But this is what Trials should be all about, smiles still all round after!

Here’s some of the trial gang from today! A big well done!! 🐾💛

05/11/2025

I said yes! Wait, wait, wait………. I don’t mean that second all-important question 🤣💍

I mean remembering the time I said yes to that first all-important question when Katie asked me to become a Scentventure Guide 5 years ago. I’ve never said yes so quickly in my life 😂

Whilst I’d trained my own dogs, and friends’ dogs, for a few years prior, I genuinely had zero interest in entering dog training professionally before meeting Katie and learning about Scentventure.

It was honestly love at first sight with Scentventure. I loved what I achieved with it and wanted others to have their own Scentventure success. Scentventure isn’t just about the training, it’s also the learning beyond the training, like tonight’s masterclass on dogs’ body language. Learning like this is as vital as the training itself. It’s also about understanding that our dogs are family, and that often means the family needs support too. I love that Scentventure goes beyond the training.

Five years later, I’ve gone from the first Scentventure Guide to now Head Scentventure Guide, and I have to say, I’m incredibly lucky to work with an amazing international Scentventure team! Together, we make an amazing head training team 🙌

🥳So here’s to Scentventure! This 5-year celebration isn’t just a time to mark my growth, but also Scentventure’s. And of course, the queen of Scentventure’s success, Katie! Katie and Scentventure set a standard that made me want to enter the training world. You taught me the beauty and possibilities we can achieve by blending training, knowledge and care. Something I’m now getting to pass down to the new Guides in training.🧡

You also taught me to pace myself when bringing my MANY ideas to life 🤣, so I’m looking forward to bringing more to life in the next five years!

28/10/2025

🧡Me and Alfs have been working on our Bold and Beloved badge for the last few months. It was created by Katie in memory of the wonderful Fifi, who sadly was said goodbye to a year ago today.

Bold and Beloved has really helped me navigate this year, especially when Alfs’ health looked so uncertain. When your dog’s health hits turbulence at 12, it hits differently. The fewer options available make us feel helpless. It’s been a beautiful reminder to live in the moment with our dogs. Every moment is special. Memento mori.

Thank you, Fifi, for everything you brought to Scentventure 🧡 Thank you, Katie, for creating such a special course that has truly shaped this year for us 🧡. In your pain from loss, you somehow created the most beautiful course that reminded us about the beauty of life.

Here’s Alfs getting a new gundog toy as part of Bold and Beloved yesterday 🧡☺️ No special occasions as such, but just a chance to remember that every day is special ☺️

23/10/2025

You may remember me telling you about Wilderness Explorers, where they’re adventures we have with our dogs and we earn patches in Club . Think scouts for dogs and their humans!

☕️ This week we earned our Pack and Pause, the idea being to just take a moment to slow down on our walks. This patch will be very special as it features Bella. Even before these patches existed, I did these pauses in a nod to Bella, who taught me and Alfs the beauty of stopping 😌

This pause also offered a great opportunity to see how far Alfs has come, just relaxing in the woods 🧡

I’ll be sure to show you the patch when it’s sewn onto the Wilderness Explorer blanket when it arrives. Maybe this one also needs to be a tattoo ☺️

18/10/2025

Oscar truly is going from strength to strength! 🌟 While I get to see a lot of plans coming together, it never gets old. He’s done so well that Oscar’s Mum and Dad’s homework is to find a busier walk!

Today on our street walks training , we worked on counter-conditioning, giving Oscar time to process his environment and learning, and showing the value of Scentventure fun on a walk. Oscar’s parents are very nearly there, but small tweaks will support further progress.📈

Here’s the star enjoying some Scentventure fun!🤩

12/10/2025

👑Lord Dogwood II, Scentventure CEO, left his stately self at the Dogwood gate 🤣🤣🤣

Look at his hilarious face! When he finds a lemon toy, you’d think it was an actual lemon with his “YAAAAAAAY I FOUND THE TOY” face🤣🍋

It’s an absolute joy to see Franco blossoming as he settles into family life. It was a proper family session yesterday, as Franco didn’t just bring his Mum, he also brought his Dad to show him his skills!

🤗The goal of yesterday was simply to have fun and put that impressive nose to good use. However, we also started to weave in Scentventure techniques that, while super fun, can really support some of the more serious goals like harness training and separation confidence.

Great work, guys! 💪 * curtsy to Lord Dogwood II of course * 🤣

11/10/2025

🤗A very exciting Scentventure Saturday as came to shadow! Katy’s been shadowing me for a few weeks on Sundays, so I couldn’t wait for her to meet the Saturday Scentventure gang.

Great work, Katy, you’re an absolute credit to Scentventure!

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