At the Wingate Hotel in Gillette, WY, dogs of all ages took part in a scent training seminar, reported The Sheridan Press. Inside a room at the hotel, there were three rows of five cardboard boxes. In ...

SEVILLE, Ohio — There are jumping dogs who can leap through a hoop. Diving dogs who will soar off a dock after a favorite toy. Those who fetch with ease, and those who know a long list of tricks.

Laurie Witucki first stumbled upon the sport of scent training while looking for a fun way to work with her anxious rescue dog, Rue. Rue was fearful around other dogs, so she couldn’t compete in more ...

Nosework, also known as Scent Work, is a sport in which a dog fully relies on his own sense of smell, turning a dog’s favorite activity — using its nose — into a fun game. In training and in ...

Experts are highlighting the benefits of combining breed-specific training with mentally stimulating games to improve obedience, behavior, and the human-dog bond. Research shows that while breed ...

Dogs are capable of using their nose for many tasks: hunting, retrieval, and finding that cookie crumb you dropped beneath the couch. Now we can add “mussel sniffing” to the list. The California ...

It took about a year for researchers to develop a reliable, at-home self-test for COVID-19 after the virus was identified. Heather Junqueira, the founder of BIO-K9, says a scent-trained dog can be ...