Dog Trailing

23/10/2026

Our dogs need blood for operations just as we do.

Consider your dog for donations if you can...

21/10/2026

We got lucky with the weather in this afternoon but our dogs left nothing to chance and they were all on fire!

Team Ella are really making fast progress. On only session four they are making accurate and confident decsions together and Ella is just so excited to be out trailing and a joy to watch. We're adding in junctions and some difficulties now and this team are solving them perfectly. Well done Team Ella 👏 👍 🙌

Team Hurley are working on multi-directional starts and doing a great job. Hurley was super-confident today working straight through contaminated trails and ignoring all difficulties thrown at him to perfectly locate both his hidden person and pet. Really super trails today Team Hurley 👏 🙌 👌

Audrey was also out of the starting blocks with great confidence (something in the air 🤔) so we threw big challenges at her. Multi-directional start, loops and backtracks designed to throw her off and despite a good wind she aced it. She quartered her hidden person to come from a different direction so despite being very detail-oriented used some air-scenting and lateral thinking to locate her person and reward. Great work today Team Audrey 👏 🙌 👍

If you want to find out more about mantrailing visit www.dogtrailing.co.uk

18/10/2026

A perfect day for in and our dogs all loved the crisp, bright weather too!

A great blend of skills today with different trailing styles from precision focus to split discrimination and one team straight back after a 6 month break.

Team Pree were really on it today. A hard-surface multi-directional start dealt with they were checking for all the difficulties making great and accurate decisions before finding a familiar smelling bush (or rather our runner hidden there). Funny to see Pree go past by less than a metre before a sharp, about turn to get her reward! Lovely trailing Team Pree 👏 😍 👌

Team Hettie were on the search for a double moving target. Again, lovely decisions made and some hard moments where the brisk wind aimed to scupper Hettie's scent trail. Great teamwork and on arrival at the super-saturated car park where she needed to discriminate to get her reward she took no time to decide the right runner. Great work Team Hettie 👏 👍 👌

Team Millie are continuing to work on their precision trailing. We reintroduced road crossings that gave us new behavioural insight helping us see how Millie reacts now if she has no direct ground scent. It's lovely seeing her enthusiasm and her progress in the new(er) game style! Well done Team Millie 👏 👍 🙌

Team Aphy (apart from a brief outing to help find a real lost dog) haven't trailed on a session for six months! Could we tell? Apart from a little more social sniffing (her environments have been more local of late)... no! Some real-world situations influenced her choices, but she was keen and happy to be finding her hidden people and pets again! Welcome back Team Aphy and well done 👏 ✔️ 👍

There's last-minute space on Wednesday 21st October if you can join us.

And message if you fancy trying Holmes Chapel as it's not generally listed.

Check out www.dogtrailing.co.uk to learn more.

18/10/2026

Love these pictures of Samson (full speed over the dog walk) at an RKC competition recently.

is a perfect complement to his higher adrenaline activities, calmly and where he leads.

Both rely on trust. In agility, I lead (I'm Samson's navigator). In mantrailing, Samson leads, and I trust him, his nose and problem-solving skills.

Amazing photography from Dave Midgley (Coalcroft.com) as always.

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17/10/2026

13/10/2026

Weird vibes in the night at Town and with just two teams we had a great tour around town.

Team Mani did a couple of epic pet trails before finishing the evening with something a little lighter. Despite the strong breeze and hard surfaces, Mani got his nose down when it counted to find his hidden dog. Lots of twists, turns and added difficulties so plenty for Mani to think about. All handled beautifully and with great teamwork, well done Team Mani 👏 👍 🙌

Team Tilly have continued their journey using the precision trail method and are really starting to see progress with Tilly's behaviours. Importantly, she's really enjoyed the new game style so it's fun too! Tilly rarely had her nose up at all and when she did it was because the ground scent had run out, so she has become much easier to read. Super work by this team and lovely to see their journey starting to blossom. Well done Team Tilly 👏 🙌 👌

If you want to give your dog a fun job to do that tires them out, try trailing with them!

Learn more at www.dogtrailing.co.uk

08/10/2026

Our dogs can be very close to the runner at the end of a trail when but struggle to work through the scent pool that is around them, as scent floods the area.

'Moving targets' can be far more difficult than we think as we can see the runner so it is confusing that our dogs don't make the connection (even when we know they haven't seen the runner!).

This is because of the way scent moves from our runner and interacts with the environment. We are a 'scent fountain' and we create a scent plume that billows around us.

This was so perfectly visualised on a CPD scent workshop today (check out Trailing K9s for future workshops) and great fun to be able to see what happens using smoke to simulate scent.

Airborne scent behaves in really interesting ways.

A great day of theory and practical demonstrations that brought scent behaviours to life.

And a great reminder of what our dogs are working through when mantrailing.

No wonder they get so tired by the end of a session!

07/10/2026

Sunny times in Bear Town this afternoon.

Team Raven chased twists and turns created by their 2 runners. Through the gardens and across open ground Raven had the final piece of her puzzle to solve... how to get into the 'mini maze'! She answered that by getting her nose down, then a cursory sniff of her decoy then straight round to her actual target. That's the way to do it! Great work Team Raven 👏 👍 👌

It was lovely to see Team Clover back for their second session. Clover made a very positive start on her first trail showing she'd remembered everything from last time so it was lovely to take her off scent enhancements for her second trail. She's very confident approaching her runner and certainly loves her reward for doing so! Well done Team Clover, great progress today 👏 👍 🙌

Audrey was... well, distracted for her first trail but on fire for her main trail. With a multi-directional start, twists, turns and a long trail ahead she ploughed straight on with a little glint in her eyes that said 'I was only teasing for my first trail!'. Perfect choices, easy to follow and full of confidence she took her teammate straight to her runner. Well done Team Audrey, spot on! 👏 👏 👏

The heatwave got in the way of Team Ella joining another session so it had been 6 months since their second session. Ella did her 3rd session as though her previous was just last week, with full enthusiasm and confidence. To follow, she completed her first pet trail laid by a devious Raven who added a good degree of complexity. Team Ella smashed it! Great work Team Ella 👏 🙌 👏

Come and try something amazing with your dog. Mantrailing is suitable for all. Learn more at www.dogtrailing.co.uk