New Year’s Day 2012 in Hackettstown, N.J. was a historic day in Greyhound history. It was the day BoomBoom became the first Greyhound to earn a Nose Work title. Before the new year was over he would follow up that Nose Work 1 title with a Nose Work 2 title. As any handler who as […]

Typically when arriving at a K9 Nose Work Trial site, you’re greeted by a volunteer who directs you were to park and points out where Registration is located. That all took place as I drove up to Camp Carpenter outside of Manchester, N.H. last weekend, except the volunteer added this direction; “At some point you’ll […]

A week to the day after having fallen one hide sort of reaching a Nose Work 3 Elite title, Logan and I had gone a couple of hundred miles south to Flemington, N.J. I had considered not going given that the forecast was calling for even higher temperatures than what we struggled through the week […]

It’s pretty common at the Nose Work 3 level for several months to go by between trials for a team. For Logan and I it had been nearly eight months since our last trial when we traveled out to Huntington, Mass. This was our third time completing at this site. A year ago we came […]

I think one of the best public speakers I’ve heard in a long time is K9 Nose Work co-founder Amy Herot. There’s a certain presence she has, and her knowledge and insight on the dog/human relationship in this sport has even more value than what our dogs see in those special stinky treats we reward […]

Having made it past the mid-point of winter, it’s that time when dreams of spring seem to be within reach of reality. So why not take a trip with Logan and see what the future looks like in the area of nose work. A K9 nose work Spring Training, if you will, minus the balmy […]

The high school I attended in Southern California had a dominate prep football program. And no more dominate when playing at our home field, known as “The Pit.” In a 20 year span, the school’s football program established a 95% winning percentage in games at “The Pit.” I’m 30-plus years and 3,000 miles away from […]

In the movie “A League of Their Own” there’s a scene where the manager of the baseball team says the following to his best player who is thinking of quitting due to how hard it is to play at the professional level. “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. […]

Two years ago Logan and I competed at a Nose Work 2 trial in Huntington, Mass. It was a great setting and with the host being Karin Damon, it was an organized, well-run trial. However, afterwords I promised myself I’d never go back there again. It was over the Fourth of July weekend, which as […]

A few years ago when Holly and I were on vacation in California we took the opportunity to sit in on a class taught by K9 Nose Work co-founder Amy Herot. In introducing us to her class, Amy said, “You know you’re a nose work geek if you’re a attending classes while on vacation.” This […]