Scent Work

This weekend Ayla made her AKC Scent Work trial debut in Novice and Waverly made her Advanced debut since finishing her SWN at the GRCA National Specialty in September. On Saturday, Ayla was scared to go into most of the search areas, but managed to pick up a Q and third place in Novice Buried. Waverly decided Buried and Container were not for her, but Q'd in Advanced Interior and Advanced Exterior. On Sunday, Ayla was much more comfortable and qualified in ALL her searches!

Winger and I traveled to Wilmington, Ohio to compete in the first ever AKC Scent Work Master National! Unfortunately, no photos or video were allowed of the competition. The first two days were an elimination round where the dogs completed Container, Buried, Interior, and Exterior searches to accrue points based on number of hides found plus negative points for false alerts, faults, and zero points for NQ-able offenses (destroying a container, eliminating in a search area, et

We hit the road to Purina Farms for our second GRCA National Specialty! Winger competed in the Junior Hunt test, WC, scent work, and agility. Waverly got to compete at her first specialty in scent work and agility. Winger passed his Junior Hunt test and WC with flying colors! He went 3/5 qualifying scores in scent work, and had some really amazing moments in agility with Premier JWW and Premier Standard runs that were so close to Qs. Waverly had a spectacular day at the scent

Waverly attended her second AKC Scent Work trial and competed in all four elements on Saturday and Sunday. This time she went 8/8 Qs! She completed her Novice Buried, Novice Exterior, and Novice Container titles. She also earned two Novice Interior Qs putting her only one Q away from her overall Novice title! The cherry on top was finding out she went Novice High In Trial on Sunday! She is now: Geronimo's Heart In The Highlands CGC TKN FTN SCN SBN SEN

Waverly competed in her very first scent work trial this weekend! She qualified of 5/6 runs and placed in three of them. After the judge's briefing on Friday, I got her out of the crate to potty and discovered she had a bee sting! Her poor snoot was swollen to twice it's size! I didn't have any antihistamines in my first aid kit, but luckily we were able to find a fellow competitor with some. Waverly ran Novice Containers with a puffy face and managed to Q! By the afternoon,

Ayla and Waverly started scent work class today! Both did super well, especially Ayla, who can struggle with new interior spaces. Once she realized the game was to search for hotdogs, she was a superstar! Waverly took to scent work right away. I see a bright future in this for both girls! Waverly Ayla