Fun Nosework for Dogs: Teach Your Dog to Enjoy Using His Nose

By Zoltan Kovecses and Professor of American Studies Zoltan Kovecses

New Expanded 2nd edition! Learn dozens of games to relieve boredom, teach important skills, build confidence and improve performance in obedience, tracking and other dog sports. These games are fun for both you and your dog. They come from a variety of sources: TV, children's games, suggested by other trainers, etc. They're marked for degree of difficulty and special skills neeeded. Games are generally designed for use in a class and require multiple dogs to be really fun! "Fun Nosework" will teach your dog to enjoy using his nose, and stimulate his primary source of information. Teach specific techniques for tracking and advanced obdience. Outstanding resources for trainers and owners! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888994037
• ISBN13: 9781888994032
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Howln Moon Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.

Customer Reviews

this really IS fun !!

A book full of really fun things to do with your dog, and it's stuff everyone can do everywhere, you don't need a club or a special terrain or suit or flags or a competition-scheme or any hard-to-get material, just everyday-fun-again things that teach your dog al sorts of useful and fun things to do for you. Love it !

Fun Nosework

This has fun ideas and training tips for your dog. You don't need to be training for search and rescue work to enjoy this book. You and your dog can just have fun.

Outstanding Starter Book!

A friend of mine recommended this book to start my pup out on trailing and scent discrimination. Roy Hunter does a fantastic job explaining the process to the novice handler, as well as providing many ideas on how to keep it FUN and entertaining for the dog so that it is motivated to learn how to use it's nose. He covers basic foundation work, enjoyable learning games that can be played with your dog, and includes a few...

Clarifying what this book is for and about

One review claims that the games in this book are for large groups. That reviewer is clearly confusing this book with Roy Hunter's other books, entitled "Fun and Games With Dogs," which do involve group dog games. However, "Fun Nosework for Dogs" does not involve multiple-dog games. This is book is about ways to get you and your dog to have fun while your dog uses its nose to sniff things out. There are no activities...

As Advertised: It's Fun and It's Nosework

I'm surprised I'm the first to review this book. So far, it's a gem. Roy's writing is clear and direct, and the introductory games are creative and enjoyable. For me, the book is the next step after sit-down-stay. It presents the training in a format that is fun for you and your dog. The first 1/3 of the book provides a series of games that set the groundwork for scenting and scent discrimination. The next 2/3 of the...