Sniff! Scent Detection Games For Pet Dog Fun

Sniff! Scent Detection Games For Pet Dog Fun free download

Ten different scent based games to play with your dog that involve your dog's favourite activity - sniffing!

This course takes you through ten different games or activities that you can play with your dog, inside or outside. The video lectures show you how to use these games to engage your dog's nose and utilise their natural sense of smell to find food, toys or other items by recognising their specific scent or odour. These fun activities will give your dog mental stimulation and satisfy their natural instincts to hunt and scavenge, by providing a safe and structured alternative.

The training techniques use praise (verbal encouragement) as well as food rewards or toy rewards to encourage your dog, and to motivate them so that they want to participate. The games and activities are designed to be fun and achievable for both you and your dog, and the course is perfect for beginners with no experience in dog training or scent detection training.

This is a clicker-free course, meaning that you don't need a clicker, or any specific knowledge of shaping techniques. Of course if you already use a clicker to mark behaviours, you can incorporate the use of your clicker into these games  :-)

The ten games are:

Find Hidden Food

Find And Fetch

Where's Mousie?

Oops! I Dropped It

Shell Game

Stinky Sock Trail

Hide and Seek

Find My Keys

Show Me The Money!

Detector Dog

The course also includes a fun explanation of how odour (scent) moves in the air, and what body language your dog will show while following the odour to find the hidden food, toy or other item.

Some of the games involve the dog fetching an item, but if your dog doesn't fetch that's fine, you can still play the games and use a Food Pod instead. There is a lecture explaining what a Food Pod is, how to teach your dog to use a Pod, and how you can use a Pod in place of getting your dog to fetch the item.