UK Sniffer Dog Silver scentwork course

Service Description

Moving on from the bronze level, our silver classes introduce two new target scents, gun oil and cat nip as well as new "active searches". Police search dogs can be trained on up to 8 different scents. Cocaine, cannabis, cash, amphetamines, heroin, bombs and more. We believe the dog can be trained on many more and this is referred to this as their target scent library. Our silver level classes are held at Coal Aston Village Hall and will cover the introduction of gun oil to our dog's scent target library, working on chair and bag searches, novel environments and vehicle searches, as well as building upon distance, difficulty, duration and distraction of indications. We will also cover a new type of indication, known as an active search on another new target scent, cat nip (this can be substituted if you have cats at home!). The active search involves teaching the dog a retrieve the item carrying the target scent so that when they find it, they retrieve it and return to the handler. So if you master this you'll never lose your keys again ;)