Jason Cortis

When we talk about developing a well-rounded scent-working dog, a big part of the game is teaching problem-solving skills. A crucial way to build this up is to teach your dog to use their nose in three dimensions . This is about helping your dog learn to put their nose down low, at mid-level, as well as up high to find available scent sources within the same search area. A dog who only practices nose height or flat searching will be missing hides and huge piece of the olfactory picture....

You may have heard the word odour "plume" or even in the past the odour "cone". This is all about how odours from a treat, all the way to a person might move in the environment. Odour coming from a particular source will disperse in the air as a scent plume.  That is not uniformly like you see with light or in some cases sound, but in a turbulent, meandering plume like pattern. Typically outdoors, plumes are carried downwind. When the wind flow is turbulent, which it almost always thanks to...

We know scent is important for our dogs, but for our puppies it can be a matter of life and death. If you’ve ever witnessed a litter of...