Scent Detection is one of the fastest growing dog sports and the best part of this is that any dog can do it and at any age. Heck, they do it naturally so why not harness this natural instinct and have some fun?!?!? The benefits of this new sport are:
Did you know that scent receptors, 200 million to 230 million of them, make up a significantly major part of a dog’s head? That's why this sport is so easy to play and is so much fun. It's a game that uses a dog's dominant sense. Any dog can learn Scent Detection for Sport. You'll be amazed at your dog!! This is the perfect game to play on those days when you're stuck indoors with Rover.
Scent Detection is offered as part of the is offered in our Navigator (Scent Detection, Dock Diving!, Agility), Expeditioner (Rally Novice, Scent Detection, TeamWalks!) and Navigator Day (Scent Detection, Dock Diving!) tracks. Our other training tracks are Explorer (Agility, Rally Advanced, Dock Diving!), Adventurer (Agility, TeamWalks!, Dock Diving!) and Discoverer (Engagement Games, Tricks, Stays & Goes!)
Meet Our Instructor
- it can be done anywhere, there's no special equipment needed
- stimulates your dog's brain
- confidence building
- taps into their natural ability
Did you know that scent receptors, 200 million to 230 million of them, make up a significantly major part of a dog’s head? That's why this sport is so easy to play and is so much fun. It's a game that uses a dog's dominant sense. Any dog can learn Scent Detection for Sport. You'll be amazed at your dog!! This is the perfect game to play on those days when you're stuck indoors with Rover.
Scent Detection is offered as part of the is offered in our Navigator (Scent Detection, Dock Diving!, Agility), Expeditioner (Rally Novice, Scent Detection, TeamWalks!) and Navigator Day (Scent Detection, Dock Diving!) tracks. Our other training tracks are Explorer (Agility, Rally Advanced, Dock Diving!), Adventurer (Agility, TeamWalks!, Dock Diving!) and Discoverer (Engagement Games, Tricks, Stays & Goes!)
Meet Our Instructor
Karin Apfel
Karin has been training and competing with dogs for over 25 years in Rally-O, flyball and agility. Her passion for the past few years has been detection work, particularly teaching sporting detection for competition. After discovering the value of scent work to build confidence in nervous or reactive dogs and the true enjoyment all dogs get from using their primary sense to play games, she worked with several law enforcement and private detection professionals and, in 2012, started the Sporting Detection Dogs Association in partnership with several other trainers. She is currently the president of the SDDA and teaches weekly classes in detection in Newmarket.
Karin has been training and competing with dogs for over 25 years in Rally-O, flyball and agility. Her passion for the past few years has been detection work, particularly teaching sporting detection for competition. After discovering the value of scent work to build confidence in nervous or reactive dogs and the true enjoyment all dogs get from using their primary sense to play games, she worked with several law enforcement and private detection professionals and, in 2012, started the Sporting Detection Dogs Association in partnership with several other trainers. She is currently the president of the SDDA and teaches weekly classes in detection in Newmarket.