Would you like to learn a new skill with your dog and have fun? A dog’s nose is much more sensitive than ours, we have approximately five million olfactory receptors in our noise, dogs have up to three hundred million. The percentage of the dog’s brain that is used to process scent is forty times greater than a human’s.
Our dogs experience the world through their nose, scent is a natural, intrinsically rewarding, enriching and fun activity for dogs of any age Scent work engages your dog’s brain, and is a mentally tiring, low impact activity which builds trust and teamwork between the dog and their handler. Your dog will go home and sleep Classes are held in an indoor riding school, or in a field if the weather allows.
They are booked in blocks of six, 75-minute sessions and are suitable for beginners. I qualified as a scent work instruction with Dr
Robert Hewings, BSc MA PG Dip from the UK college of Scent Detection (UKCSD)