Nosework Class

Morpheus is nearing the end of his Nosework III class, and is currently working on more difficult searches with a Q-tip saturated with birch scent. The challenges he worked with in class today included putting the Q-tip inside a closed box without holes, and hiding the Q-tip in tight areas where he might need to ask his person for help. He has done a number of box searches before, but until today the boxes had holes in them to let the scent out a little better - and so today we added the challenge of no holes. He's also done searches before where he needed to request help to get at the scent, and that is one that he really needs to practice, because he's more of an independent searcher who likes to do it all on his own.

I took video today while Mike handled Morpheus. He was a little goofy and off task during his first search, but after that he did better. He rests between each search while other dogs in the class take their turns searching.