This is where the real fun begins! We have an indication on our target odour, but up until now our dogs have been using their eyes, not their nose. Throughout this next stage we're going to be progressively making the task harder (without sacrificing our success rate) so that our pups are encouraged to sniff out the odour and slowly wean out the opportunity to use their eyes by making the hide harder to see.

Ok! We've got the hover indication down to a fine art on a coin, it's time to transfer that indication over to the target odour so we can start introducing the searchy sniffy stuff!

This video shows you the second half of the indication training.

How to teach the indication.

As we progress through teaching our own dogs how to play scent work games, we'll film and post those here so you can follow along. We'll try to show you what each stage looks like with multiple dogs so that there's an example that will 'hopefully' be relevant to most dogs.

Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl

Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl

Meet Adira AKA BabyDog! She is our seriously adorable rescue pup who we got mid 2020. Adira is a double merle, which means the person who bred her mixed two dogs containing the merle gene together. Double merles are predisposed to all kinds of medical conditions, and Adira was born both fully deaf and fully blind. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is the most confident, happy, sassy little thing! Here is a collection of some of her training videos. If you have a deaf or bl