This Dog Can - Kat Brookman Dog Training

04/05/2026

The best way to spend a Bank Holiday Monday?
This Dog Can Scentwork Experience! And today we took it to the miniature railway! 🚂
We had an amazing time outdoors, letting our dogs explore, sniff, and work in new environment filled with exciting distractions.
For our teams already trained on odour, sessions like this are a fantastic way to build experience, strengthen teamwork, and boost confidence in novel settings.
So proud of our gorgeous sniffer teams hard at work today – you were all brilliant! 🐾

26/04/2026

Places available at the upcoming Nosework Games – Unstone, S18 (Border of North Derbyshire / South Yorkshire)
Location: Unstone, S18

Sunday 17th of May - Needle In The Haystack, Vehicle and Snake

Level 1 - Newbie
Target Odour - Cloves

Book your place here:

My name is Kat and I am a dog trainer offering training & dog walking services in South West Sheffield & Dronfield.

12/04/2026

Today we ran our Nosework Games Level 2 competition in Unstone.
We introduced a brand new game, Adopt a Position, which turned out to be great fun while also challenging handlers to explore new ways of communicating and working with their canine detectives. We also played Boom where everyone trying hard not to trigger the imaginary explosive device 🤣
Huge congratulations to all our teams:
🥇 1st place – Dawn & Storm
🥈 2nd place – Becky & Freddy
🥉 3rd place – Richard & Trooper
🏅 4th place – Emma & Rocky

Right on their tails:
Deborah & Erik, Paula & Flash, Christina & Indie.

A special congratulations to Storm team and Trooper team, who have now reached maximum points for Level 2 and have to move up to the next higher level.

And big congratulations to Freddy team and Rocky team for earning their Level 2 On The Way Up titles — amazing work and fantastic achievement! Level 4 is now open to you 🎉

12/04/2026

Busy weekend at This Dog Can headquarters.

On Friday we had Nosework Games Skills Assessments.

Wonderful work everyone!

Big congratulations to Emma & Rocky for finishing the last 2 game passes and becoming a Nosework Games Skills Newbie Team! First team to achieve 8 passes! Great work!

Our sniffer teams proudly show their rosettes.

08/04/2026

Nosework Games in Unstone S18 (South Yorkshire/Derbyshire) on Sunday 17th of May. I was thinking Level 4 but open to suggestions.

If you CAN attend that date which levels would you be interested in?
Vote below 👇
🐕Level 1
🐕Level 2
🐕Level 3
🐕Level 4

01/03/2026

Today This Dog Can hosted our Level 1 Nosework Games in Unstone – and the dry&sunny weather was well and truly ordered and delivered (for most of the trial anyway ☀️).
We had 8 fantastic teams take on three games: All Clear, Line Ups and Vehicle Search.

It was an absolute pleasure to watch. The quality of searching was top class, and the beautiful relationships between dogs and handlers were so noticeable throughout the day. Calm handling, confident dogs and some lovely clear indications made for a very even and exciting competition!
🏆 Overall Results

🥇 1st – Dawn & Storm
🥈 2nd – Becky & Banjo
🥉 3rd – Richard & Trooper
🏅 4th – Kay & Tom

Closely followed by:
5th Christina & Indie
6th Helen & Bramble
7th Vanessa & Luca
8th Emma & Rocky

A huge congratulations to everyone who competed – you should all be incredibly proud of your performances.

And a special congratulations to Becky & Banjo on achieving their Level 1 Newbie title – such a well-deserved achievement! 🎉👏
Thank you all for making it such a brilliant day of sniffing and teamwork. 🐾
And thank you to Becky for scribing!

28/02/2026

Good luck to Nosework Games Level 1 competitors!
I look forward to seeing all the teams tomorrow morning!
Have fun!

01/02/2026

Nosework Games – Level 3 | Unstone
What a fantastic day at our Level 3 Nosework Games in Unstone! The standard of competition was incredibly even, with a very high quality of searching across the board. It was an absolute pleasure to watch each team work — every dog bringing their own unique searching style and clear indications, making the day both exciting and inspiring to judge and spectate.
With such close scores, every detail mattered, and the final placings reflected just how competitive the field was.
Overall Results
🥇 1st place – Becky & Freddy
🥈 2nd place – Tricia & Fern
🥉 3rd place – Pam & Darcy
4️⃣ 4th place – Liz & Coco
A huge congratulations to Tricia & Fern and Liz & Coco on achieving the Star ⭐ In The Making title — a brilliant accomplishment and very well deserved!
Well done to all competitors for such a high-standard, enjoyable day of nosework. 👏
Some of our competitors with their rosettes.

23/01/2026

Only just over a week to go until our next Level 3 Nosework Games in Unstone 🐾✨
These absolute beauties arrived yesterday and honestly… they’re even more stunning in person 😍
(Please ignore my very average photographer skills — clearly still a work in progress 📸😂)
So… the important question 👀
Which one is your favourite? 👇🐕💛

04/01/2026

Nosework Games Level 1 – Unstone 🐾
Today we held our first Nosework Games of 2026! There’s truly no better way to start the year than sniffing your way into it 😂
We had incredibly even scores across the board, with a double tie and even a triple tie — it all came down to those perfect rounds: no false alerts and the fastest first finds.
We welcomed some first-time competitors, some very young pups, and a few seasoned “gamers”, making for a brilliant mix of teams.
Young Erik completely stole the show — nearly perfect rounds at just 6 months old! What a superstar in the making ⭐
Without further ado, the results:
🥇 1st place: Deborah & Erik
🥈 2nd place: Helen & Mr Clay (huge congratulations on achieving your Newbie title!)
🥉 3rd place: Emma & Rocky
4️⃣ 4th place: Becky & Banjo
A big well done to the rest of the group who battled hard for 5th place — a triple tie decided by the most perfect rounds and fewest false alerts:
5️⃣ Helen & Skye
6️⃣ Lizzie & Muffin
7️⃣ Rebecca & April
8️⃣ Caity & Scout
I hope you all enjoyed your sniffy start to 2026 — what a way to kick off the year! 🐕✨
Kat