The day after a full day of CPE agility, Truffle and I drove up to Meredith, New Hampshire, for the Lakes Region Kennel Club’s AKC Scent Work trial on September 26. A week earlier, she’d won Exterior at Saccarappa. This time we came home with her first two Scent Work titles: Novice Exterior (SEN) and…

Two months ago, Truffle got excused from her very first Exterior search for peeing on a spot another dog had already marked. On September 19, at the Saccarappa Obedience Club’s AKC Scent Work trial in Westbrook, Maine, she won the Exterior class. Out of 18 dogs. In ten seconds. Exterior: ten seconds and a lesson…

Truffle and I recently attended our very first AKC scentwork trial, hosted by the North Shore Kennel Club at the Topsfield Fairgrounds on July 18 and 19. Spoiler: we came home with five Q ribbons, a handful of rookie mistakes, and a dog who is apparently a scentwork dog now. Let me back up. How…