Scent Detection Classes
With Christina Legien of Alert K9
Join us for an exciting new class that is fun and rewarding for both you and your dog brought to you by Christina Legien of Alert K9.
Christina brings years of experience in scent detection, teaching all levels of classes, competing at all levels with her own dogs and is a certified SDDA judge.
Scent detection, is a dog sport created to emulate tasks performed by professional detection dogs. In the sport, one dog and one handler form a team where the dog must find a hidden target odor, often ignoring distractions such as food or toys, and alert the handler once the target odor is found.
Your dog will learn to search for specific odors, such as Wintergreen, Pine and Thyme essential oils.
Scent detection is easy to teach and you don't have to be a skilled dog handler to do it! It is also an easy sport to practice at home and is great for mental stimulation, especially on days we can’t physically exercise our dogs outside
You can do it for fun or you can compete and earn titles with your dog! How far you go is up to you!
Pricing:
$200
Class Dates:
Saturdays (10 weeks)
February 3 - April 6
Beginner (10am-12pm)
Advanced (12pm - 2pm)
Excellent / Elite (2pm-4pm)
Each class is two hours in length with the exception of the first class on Feb 3 - these classes will be one hour.
To Register
Contact Christina Legien at woofaction@sasktel.net or on Facebook messenger
You will register with and pay Christina directly (not through Aloha K9)
If you have done scent detection before and are not sure which class to register for please discuss this with Christina.
A dogs nose has up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared to the six million a human has. The part of the dogs brain that analyzes those smells is 40 times greater than a humans. This means a dogs nose is powerful enough to detect substances at concentrations of one part per trillion, that is equal to a single drop of liquid in 20 Olympic sized swimming pools!
Class Details:
Class is held every other Saturday at Aloha K9’s indoor facility. Alternating weeks you will be given exercises and homework via WhatsApp. You will record your sessions and post in the group and will receive instructions/tips and things to work on.
You will have the benefit of watching everyone else’s videos, as well as watching Christina’s videos to learn from, as she explains any difficulties she’s having and how she will work to solve them. So you will see everything from her working with a very green dog (Gretyl) to 2 very experienced and titled dogs (Karma and Rookie).
All of the classes will cover everything from starting a dog, proofing exercises, handling, what to do when things go wrong (and they will!), managing your search area, what to expect when you are trialling, what judges are looking for, and much more!
**When the weather starts to warm up, we will start to hold some additional outdoor classes so you can learn how to manage an outdoor search. These classes will be more of a “drop in” type set up, and will be at a lower cost, usually $15 per session.
