anyone ever witness this event?? - Page 1

I'm going to check it out...........



Area dogs can show how good their sense of scents is in the new canine sport of nose work on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
That’s when Centenary College hosts a National Association of Canine Scent Work nose work trial in the John M. Reeves Student Recreation Center and other campus buildings and outside areas.This is the first canine nose work trial taking place in New Jersey, according to college officials. The trials will run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day and will be open to the public. The association sets the standards governing the sport of canine scent work and is the only organizing body for K9 nose work titles and odor recognition tests. Dogs must pass an odor recognition test to be eligible to compete in an association’s trial. The art and practice of nose work started about four years ago in California. It is a competitive sport that has made basic search and detection dog skills available to companion dogs, creating a new urban sport arena for dog enthusiasts. The dogs utilize their basic hunting skills to find certain odors hidden in different areas including interiors such as classrooms, exteriors such as a field or perimeter of a building, vehicles and container searches of luggage, boxes etc. “I am so pleased that Centenary College will be hosting this competition,” said Karin Damon, head athletic trainer at Centenary and a dog enthusiast. “This opportunity for competitors to trial on our campus has been extremely well received. We filled all of our spots for both days in just nine minutes.” In total, 84 dogs will be competing.

Most association judges have either a search and rescue, explosive, cadaver or narcotics background.

Centenary College’s main campus is in Hackettstown; its equestrian facility is in Washington Township (Morris County).

I would like to check it out.

http://www.nacsw.net/

there you go Slam......! Some more info on the organization.....

Ron,
Interesting stuff and I think it is very cool for people to try.  I would participate but I am not going to train my dog to detect those target odors.  I could bring cotton balls impregnated with real narcotic odors and run those.  I would still like to check it out.  Detection is detection, whether the dog is alerting to cadaver, narcotics, explosives, birch or clover. 

I train with a SAR woman who's dogs are trained to scent discriminate.  She can show a dog any odor and the dog will find that odor in minutes.  We set out our narcotics training aids, her dog sniffed the jar the Heroin was kept in and the dog immediately searched and found the training aid.  we repeated that with Cocaine and marijuana, the dog was exact on every odor the first time.  The dog is a working SAR and cadaver dog.  I find scent work and tracking fascinating.  Should be very interesting. 


Jim

I live in California and I know someone that just got the NW1 title on her GSD male..

Thanks for sharing this, Judron.

I have been looking in to this venue also - Have not yet got to taken classes or a seminar but plan to give it a try soon.