About Kat Serafina: 

Kat has a masters degree in Applied Animal Behaviour and is the owner of Canine Detection Solutions & K9 Behaviour Consultancy specialising in the use of dogs to detect invasive plants. She has also trained explosive, drug and conservation detection dogs. As well as for pet owners Kat has delivered workshops for police forces and other government agencies. 

About the Event: 

This workshop is suitable for all levels of scentwork training from beginners to advanced dogs. Kat will adapt to make sure you and your dog get what you need to succeed. Kat can help you progress your scentwork whether you are a pet owner just getting started or a professional handler looking to improve. 

Please note that dogs are worked individually and you may be required to have your dog settle in your vehicle between turns.  

Cost    £ 110  for 1 Day

           £ 200  for 2 Days

           £ 50 Spectator per day

Special Rates for IABTC Supersniffers

10 till 4

Tea and coffee bring your own lunch

Cost is £300 for the 3 days FULL Spectator places only

A deposit of £100 to be by 20th January Full payment by June.

Spectator places £150

If you book if you cancel you will be expected to either sell your place or pay the full

amount.

The clinic is limited to 12 but there will be spectator places.

Endeavour Canine, run by Georgie Armstrong.

Georgie has a rich background in many different scent-based disciplines, having started her training in operational work over 10 years ago. 

Since then, she has not only trained her dogs for deployment in SAR and Victim Recovery on land and boat, and for Pyrotechnics detection, she has also trained dogs  for others in a range of disciplines including tracking and bed bug detection 

These three-day clinics will be organised as follows.

Day 1 – Theory Day, no dogs will be required this day (although you are welcome to bring them with you if they will settle )

We will go through the reasoning behind the tests, what the tests are giving us information wise and run through them all so that we are comfortable with them before  the dogs. 

Day 2 – Practical Tests - Inference

Day 3 – Practical Tests - Memory and Interpretation of the results.

Each day will start at 10am, and will finish between 3 and 4pm depending on the time taken to cover the content. 

This clinic is for everyone and any discipline, if you are a professional looking to enhance how you select dogs, a Nose/Scent work handler, or simply a pet owner who  loves learning about your dog, cognition testing will enhance your knowledge about the dog in front of you.  

These tests have proven to reduce failure rates in selection detection dogs for operational programs and sped up the training process because the trainers are able to  understand the requirements of each individual dog.  

These Cognition tests help you learn crucial information such as, is you dog strong in memory, is the dog a problem solver, how quick does it make inferences? Additional  things these tests show is, does the dog easy follow gestural communication and what  is your dogs' laterality. 

In conjunction with the normal K9 selection and evaluation steps agencies use, adding these K9 Brain games to an evaluation raises the percentage of dogs successfully  picked to be working K9’s.  

Using these tests have proven to increase selection percentages of the right dogs for a training program. 

If you do Nose/Scent work, the information from these games will help you understand your dog better and how to set up training sessions that get the most out of your dog.  

Just knowing if your dog is right or left-brain dominant can make a significant difference on how you search an area.

These tests are not just for detection though, they would help you in all sports, agility, obedience, gundog work, the list is endless, to have a better understanding of how your  

dog learns is such a valuable asset.