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Continue reading →: Announcing Online Odor Theory Class
Well, here it is at last, the class that has been ten years in the making (click link below to see it): Seeing Through Your Dog’s Nose (Apologies to subscribers, this is a duplicate post…I needed to make this post public and couldn’t do it without the duplication) What the…
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Continue reading →: Knowledgeable Dogs and the Double Blind Search
Jimmy Choo was the first dog I saw do this. We were in class, and Jimmy was working in a room with two hides. He had found the first one readily, but couldn’t seem to hone in on the second one. After a few minutes of frustrated trotting around, his…
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Continue reading →: Why You Should Run Your Dog Off-Leash in Buried
Happy 2026! This is going to be an interesting year! To start the year out, I am adding to my already extensive collection of posts on the Buried element (to see those, go to the blog and click on the Buried topic (in the navigation area–scroll to the top if…
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Continue reading →: Cold Weather and the Scent Cone
Sunday morning. I am awake early, but I lie in bed for quite a while, luxuriating in having the time for a good “lie in” and mulling over some thoughts, waiting until it gets fully light to get up and feed the creatures. After breakfast crunchies all around, the dogs…
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Continue reading →: The Bermuda Triangle in the Training Building (part two)
Last week I wrote about that peculiar area in the training building where no hides, no matter how carefully set, could be found by the dogs–a Bermuda Triangle for scent. I had finally pulled out the smoke machine, which shed some light on the mystery—here is the video of the…
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Continue reading →: Why Demo Dogs are Important
This week’s blog topic comes to you via the mysteries of scent work: the Bermuda triangle in the training facility. I hold my regular classes at a commercial training facility. Technically, I am supposed to use one of their training areas for running hides, but for variety I like to…
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Continue reading →: Returning to Found Hides
Sometimes it feels like I have been teaching scent work for a thousand years. In reality, it has only been ten years: four personal dogs and a few hundred students (probably…I really have not kept count), and judging thousands of teams. So I have a historical perspective on training practices.…
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Continue reading →: Questions on the New Buried Rules
On Saturday I dropped in to my friend’s class so that Astra and I could have some practice on working unknown buried hides. It’s a nice class with a very relaxed vibe, and The instructor was talking about the various factors that tend to complicate buried searches, and some questions…
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Continue reading →: How to Stop a Dog from Cataloging
Last month, I was teaching a seminar and during the open question period someone asked “how do you stop a dog from cataloging?” “Cataloging” in scent work, is used to describe a dog who gets into a search area, often goes directly to the odor, but doesn’t alert on it,…
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I’m Ellen
A Scent Work trainer, instructor, competitor, student, and judge. Welcome to Sniffing Around Scent Work, a blog where I write about my experiences, thoughts and musings on my favorite past time.
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