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.
119 students enrolled
Last updated Apr 9th, 2026
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.
Natasha
This course is absolutely fantastic, working with free searches can appear daunting, this course supports all of your learning needs to transfer to the dog to open a conversation and support them. This is a fantastic course and I now feel more confident with free searches!
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.
Penny
Pam is very very clear in her explanations, makes the learning so much better.
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.
Kamila
I loved this course. I am learning scent work not only to do this with my dog, who loves it, but also because I am a dog trainer and I an starting to do some basic scent work sessions with a couple of clients who really wanted it. I am following the suggested path of which course to do when, and it’s absolutely brilliant. I was really worried how I am going to make this interesting to the client who’s dog is absolutely amazing at this. This course gave me a clear path to follow and inspired me on how to do this. I was worried that I should get as quickly as possible to the How to teach scent work course, to be able to start working on it with clients, but I am not anymore. This gave me a beautiful base to what I can do and then how I can progress.
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.
119 students enrolled
Last updated Apr 9th, 2026
