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Teach your dog to sniff!

Teach Your Dog to Sniff is a clear, step by step introduction to companion scentwork. You’ll show your dog how to search for a specific target scent in a structured and achievable way, building focus, confidence and engagement from the very first session. Designed for everyday teams, this course lays the foundation for safe, effective scentwork you can build on as your skills grow.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Puppy Scentwork

Puppy Scentwork gives you a structured, age-appropriate introduction to scentwork from the very beginning. Through simple, positive exercises, you’ll build focus, confidence and engagement while strengthening your relationship with your pup. This course lays calm, clear foundations that support future training and help your puppy learn how to learn. You’ll also explore the science behind how scentwork begins, gaining a deeper understanding of why scent is such a powerful and natural tool for young dogs.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Senior Scentwork

Senior Scentwork shows you how to adapt scentwork thoughtfully for older dogs, keeping their minds engaged while respecting physical changes. Through structured, achievable exercises, you’ll support focus, confidence and enjoyment without overfacing your dog. Scentwork’s flexibility makes it an ideal activity for seniors who may need to slow down physically but still benefit from meaningful mental work. The course also explores how scent and cognition change with age, giving you a deeper understanding of how to adjust training in a way that supports long-term wellbeing.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Essential Scentwork Skills

Once your dog can reliably find a specific scent, the next step is adding structure. Essential Scentwork Skills builds the directed searches, clear planning and handling techniques that allow you to search more varied environments safely and confidently. This is where early success develops into focused, capable teamwork. I recommend taking this course after Teach Your Dog to Sniff to build strong foundations for everything that follows.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Design the Perfect Search

Design the Perfect Search provides a structured framework for planning purposeful, progressive scentwork sessions. You’ll learn how to assess current skill levels, set clear goals and design searches that build confidence and precision rather than creating confusion. By understanding what to include and what to leave out, you can avoid common design mistakes and ensure each session moves your team forward. Ideal for handlers and trainers who want greater control over training progression.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Increasing the Challenge

Increasing the Challenge builds on the structure you developed in Essential Scentwork Skills. You’ll learn how to extend search duration, reduce scent picture size and introduce more complex scenarios in a controlled, thoughtful way. This course shows you how to increase difficulty without losing clarity, so your teamwork remains strong even as the challenges grow. I recommend taking this course after Essential Scentwork Skills to deepen your skill and confidence.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Stay at home scentwork

Stay at Home Scentwork helps you apply everything you’ve learned in practical, home-based sessions. Across six structured weeks, you’ll revisit core skills while introducing new challenges that keep your training purposeful and varied. With one lesson released each week, it’s an achievable way to maintain progress and keep scentwork part of everyday life.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Baggage Searches

Baggage Searches introduces structured object based searches using bags, cases and rucksacks to develop precision and discrimination. Practising line-ups strengthens directed search skills and challenges both handler and dog to maintain clarity under controlled conditions. These compact scent pictures provide an excellent opportunity to refine accuracy and consistency. As an extension, you’ll also learn how to search post, from letters to small parcels, applying the same structured approach to everyday items.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Vehicles Searches

Vehicle Searches teaches you how to approach cars, vans and other vehicles with a clear, systematic routine. You’ll explore how scent moves around and through vehicles and learn how to apply structured search patterns that build accuracy and confidence. This course develops your observational skills and deepens your understanding of your dog’s signals in more complex environments. Once you understand the routine, you can apply it to a wide range of vehicles, from everyday cars to larger transport settings.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Water Searches

Water Searches shows you how to teach your dog to detect scent that has risen through water and reached the surface. Using a clear, structured approach, you’ll explore how scent behaves differently in aquatic environments and how to design searches that are both safe and achievable. No specialist equipment is required, and the exercises can be adapted for a wide range of dogs and target scent choices. Dogs do not need to enter the water to be successful. The focus is on detecting scent at the surface, making this suitable even for dogs who prefer to keep their paws dry. For those who enjoy water, the same structured framework can be applied in more varied outdoor settings.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Lost Keys

Lost Key Searches shows you how to teach your dog to reliably locate everyday items such as house keys, car keys or a mobile phone. Through clear, step by step instruction and video demonstrations, you’ll learn a structured process that builds accuracy and confidence. This course focuses on practical application, turning scentwork into a genuinely useful skill you can rely on in real life. No prior courses are required. It stands alone as a complete and achievable training programme.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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How to Teach Scentwork

How to Teach Scentwork provides a clear, structured framework for delivering scentwork classes with confidence. This course goes beyond searching with your own dog and shows you how to design curriculum, manage group dynamics and coach handlers at different skill levels without overwhelming them. You’ll learn how to break down complex skills into teachable stages while maintaining clarity, safety and progression. With over 40 video demonstrations, a comprehensive course booklet and complete resources to run your own 8 week starter course, including ready to use handouts, this is a practical, professional blueprint for aspiring scentwork trainers who want to teach with structure and credibility.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Masterclass - SAS Handling Skills

Masterclass - SAS Handling Skills is a focused exploration of how your movement, positioning and timing directly influence search outcomes. Through detailed video analysis and clear explanation of the underlying principles, you’ll learn to recognise how subtle handler behaviour shapes your dog’s performance. This masterclass develops the awareness and precision needed to handle intentionally rather than reactively, strengthening teamwork and improving reliability in every search.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Masterclass - Indications

Masterclass - Indications develops the ability to recognise and interpret the behavioural shifts that occur before, during and after an indication. You’ll learn to differentiate interest from commitment, understand the mechanics of clear final responses and adjust your handling to suit individual dogs. Designed for serious scentworkers who want greater precision, this masterclass deepens your understanding of communication within the search.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Savvy Scentwork

Savvy Scentwork moves beyond technique and into problem solving. When scentwork doesn’t unfold exactly as planned, this course helps you analyse, adapt and respond strategically. From handling complications to inclusive search design and behavioural nuance, you’ll build the decision making skills required to manage complexity without losing structure. Designed for serious scentworkers and professional trainers, Savvy develops the judgement and flexibility that underpin long-term success.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Prioritising the Trainer's Dog

Prioritising the Trainer’s Dog explores the often overlooked impact of professional training demands on the trainer’s own dog. Through structured reflection, welfare planning and practical decision making tools, this course helps you maintain ethical standards, protect long term wellbeing and create a sustainable training practice that works for both you and your dog.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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Scent Lab C2

A live, 12-day scentwork experience with 4 simple experiments to help you understand how scent behaves to discover just how extraordinary your dog’s scenting skills are. Join us to observe, learn and connect through scentwork.

CourseBy Pam Mackinnon

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30 Days of Hides

Sometimes thinking up places to hide the target can be a struggle. In this book I present you with 30 suggestions. In fact, I give you 90 as each suggestion comes with Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced options. Lots of ideas to help your imagination out with hides!

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Choosing & Using a Scentwork Harness

Stop guessing which harness is right for scentwork. This clear 4 page guide shows you what to look for, what to avoid and how to use a harness safely and effectively during searches.

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Detector Dog School Membership

Memberships curated to meet your scentwork goals

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Dog Log

The Dog Log Planner gives you a simple way to record daily observations in behaviour, appetite, sleep or mood so you can spot patterns early, track when changes began and see clearly when things improve.

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Factors & Fixes

This practical 47 page ebook explores the common, preventable factors that can undermine your searches across wellbeing, environment, distractions and handler influence. Each section explains why the issue matters and how to fix it so you can train with more clarity and fewer setbacks.

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Factors & Fixes Infographics

Three clear, full colour infographics highlight common scentwork search issues and the practical fixes that get you, or your, clients back on track.

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Handler Position Infographics Set

7 clear infographics show how to position and move with your dog so they can work independently and confidently. Use them to improve spacing, timing and search flow.

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How to plan a scentwork search infographic

Without a working plan, your scentwork search will never be reliable. Use this infographic to ensure your search is efficient, organised and reliably successful.

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Increasing the Scentwork Challenge infographic

This clear, practical infographic shows you different ways to increase difficulty while keeping your training fair and purposeful.

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Indications Printables

This three page printable set helps you recognise, understand and respond to your dog’s indication signals with confidence.

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Inspired - A Year of Scentwork Search Themes Inspiration

This 54 page ebook gives you 60 structured scentwork themes across search factors, indoor setups and outdoor challenges so you can vary difficulty, build skills and avoid plateaus.

Digital file1 fileBy Pam Mackinnon

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Jackpot - A Simple Guide to Food Rewards

This concise 9 page guide explains the fundamentals of food rewards so you can improve timing, delivery and reinforcement value in your training. Clear, practical and rooted in experience, it helps you avoid common mistakes and make your rewards count.

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Pre-Search Safety Checks Infographic

A quick scan before you begin a search can prevent accidents, protect confidence and keep training running smoothly. This clear infographic highlights common environmental and handling hazards to look out for, with straightforward guidance on what to check and what to adjust.

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Pro Trainer Bundle

The ultimate course bundle for scentwork trainers, saving you £244!!!!

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Run Your Own Scentwork Treasure Hunt Kit

A ready-to-run scentwork event you can use with your own clients. No need to design it yourself, just run it and adapt as needed.

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Scent 101 Infographics Set

7 printable graphics explain how scent really behaves so you can set better hides and make sense of your dog’s search.

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Scentwork Search Tracker

Keeping track of your searches is the best way to make a record of your scentwork progress. It can be difficult to remember the details of every search. Especially hard when using mixed materials, varying search locations and keeping hides fresh and new. But with this simple to use Search Tracker you don't have to remember. Fill it in after every search to make a full record of your progress.

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Search Setting Solutions Printables

This printable pack helps you plan and adjust your searches with intention so you can create the right level of challenge for your dog. Use it to build stamina, improve attention and shape clearer outcomes instead of repeating the same setups and hoping for change.

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Sniff to Scent

Unlock your dog’s hidden superpower with the Sniff to Scent Bundle - three complete courses designed to take you and your dog from your very first search right through to complex challenges.

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Super Sniffer Bundle

Go from complete novices to seasoned scentworkers, saving you £80+!

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TDS Scentwork Workbook

Progress in scentwork comes from thoughtful practice, not just enthusiasm. This 103 page workbook is designed to help you implement what you learn across the six core scentwork courses, organising your training, capturing insights and reinforcing key concepts as you move forward.

Digital file1 fileBy Pam Mackinnon

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Trainer Toolkit

A curated collection of visual guides and infographics designed to support scentwork trainers in theory sessions, client handouts and practical demonstrations.

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Unleash Your Best Year Yet with the 2025 Scentwork Planner!

Are you ready to make 2025 your most organized, productive, and fulfilling year—for you and your dog? The 2025 Scentwork Planner is your ultimate companion to balance scentwork goals, life goals and the joy of working with your best buddy. This planner isn’t just about keeping track, it's about living a more intentional life with your dog. After all the best plans include wagging tails and sniffing noses. Grab your 2025 Scentwork Planner today and make every day count—for you and your dog!

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