Content To Scent goes beyond the nose. We look at the bigger picture for dogs who struggle with sensitivity, environmental challenges, and related issues that impact training and performance in scent work. This course is appropriate for dogs in training and started on odor, or those already trialing with difficulty in those environments.

“When you acknowledge the dogs’ needs, your training goals become clear.”

Why Content To Scent ? It is commonly recognized that compared to other dog sports, scent sport activities offer more organic benefits and greater chance for success to dogs who are sensitive and/or environmentally challenged. While all dogs may not be suited for scent sport competition, all dogs CAN benefit from scent sport training. Recognizing and prioritizing your dogs’ unique needs will reap rewards in one form or another-competition is not a requirement to realize the joy and accomplishment that comes with training and building your relationship! Confidence and comfort are key, and Content To Scent shows you how to provide this for your dog in training.

This 8 week program provides a contextual framework for building focus in scent work. This is not about scent skills and drills! Rather, this is a program that teaches peripheral skills to help dogs who struggle with environmental sensitivity or similar challenges that may impede their ability to train and search. Based in positively conditioned response, Content To Scent includes steps to process acclimation, create comfort in a work zone, communicate with clarity, provides games and exercises for building confidence with start buttons, and more. The pieces all come together as a complete training loop that can be expanded and generalized as your dog moves forward in training with more complex searches. This course is appropriate for dogs in training and started on odor, or those already trialing with difficulty in those environments.

Scent training is a mainstay and major contributor to my own dogs’ overall enrichment. In addition to building our relationship, it provides a safe and fun outlet for their hunt drive with appropriate mental and physical challenges. As a trainer, I find the unique challenges of scent work to be highly rewarding, and just plain FUN! I encourage people to try it- whether or not your goals include competition, you will be rewarded mightily either way! Content To Scent can help you do it.

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THANK YOU! Fenzi Dog Sport Academy and Clicker Expo for major inspiration, learning and evolution of dog sports training. Special thanks to Dr. Deb Jones PhD, Denise Fenzi, Leslie McDevitt, Sue Sternberg, Dana Zinn, Melissa Chandler, Julie Daniels, Shade Whitesel, Michele Pouliot, Ken Ramirez, Kamal Fernandez, Sharon Carroll, Stacy Barnett, Bob Bailey. Also thanks to all of the trainers worldwide who continue to evolve and share the message of training our dogs through relationship built with benevolence, trust and empowerment through choice.