Scent training should be an adventure!
The Scentwork Badge Club is for dogs and owners who want to be more creative with their scentwork training. It turns sniffing into a journey full of discovery, fun, and achievement for you both!
At the heart of the Badge Club is the Badge Book, packed with creative scentwork challenges designed to encourage you to try new things, develop your dog's skills and discover just how much their nose can do. Each badge gives you a new goal to work towards, with training exercises and reflection prompts to help you notice your dog's progress and learn more about how they search.
Want a little more guidance? The online Badge Club membership brings the Badge Book to life with additional training support, an ever-growing library of example videos featuring a variety of dogs, Seasonal Challenges, member perks and plenty more scentwork inspiration.
If you and your dog are completely new to scentwork, Scent Scout is a great place to start. You'll discover some of the fascinating science behind why scentwork is so beneficial for dogs, try your first food and toy searches, and learn how to start reading your dog's body language and search behaviour. Complete your training and you'll even earn your very first Scent Scout badge!
Whether you're developing skills for competition, building confidence, looking for new ways to enrich your dog's life, or simply want to have more fun together, there's no single right way through the Badge Club. Pick the challenges that suit you and your dog, work at your own pace, and celebrate what you achieve together.
Where will your dog's nose take you next? 🐾
Our story
Hi there!
My name is Zita and scentwork has changed the way I see dogs.
A huge part of that is thanks to Asha.
Asha had a rough start as a stray, and we've navigated more challenges together than I ever expected. Scentwork has been our anchor through much of it. We started training during a time when she could barely walk due to serious back problems. Years later, after a fungal infection that nearly killed her, she now has only one properly functioning nostril.
And yet she keeps going. She keeps progressing. She keeps teaching me how essential sniffing is.
Training with Asha has taught me an enormous amount about what it really means to work with the dog in front of you. About patience, creativity and resilience. About noticing the small things, adapting when something isn't working, and recognising just how much progress can happen when you stop rushing towards the next goal.
Now there's BertBert too, beginning her own journey from the very start. Having one dog in her senior years and another just setting out has made me appreciate even more that there isn't one version of progress, or one path that every dog needs to follow.
The Scentwork Badge Club has been living in my head for a long time. As an instructor, I work with dogs of all different ages, breeds, abilities, personalities and goals, and I wanted to create something that celebrated the journey rather than just the end result.
Something that gave us reasons to try new things. To notice the little improvements. To reflect on what our dogs are telling us. And, importantly, to celebrate the things we've worked hard to achieve together.
That's what inspired the Scentwork Badge Club.
The badges are a fun reward, but what they represent is much more important: the training, problem-solving, discoveries and little moments of teamwork that happened along the way.
Whether your dog is taking their very first sniff into scentwork, working towards competition goals, adapting to what their body can do, or simply happiest exploring the world with their nose, I hope the Badge Club gives you plenty of reasons to keep learning about them.
And plenty of adventures to have together. 🐾