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Start your dog’s scent-work journey the right way. Our puppy trailing program focuses on building confidence, encouraging natural instincts, and introducing young dogs to the fundamentals of tracking and man-trailing. Through positive, age-appropriate exercises, puppies learn to follow human scent, develop problem-solving skills, and build a strong working foundation for future search or sport work.
Whether your goal is a working K-9, sport trailing, or simply enriching your puppy’s life, our training sets them up for success from day one.
Our advanced puppy trailing program is designed for young prospects destined for search-and-rescue, man-trailing, or specialized scent work. We focus on developing strong drive, intensity, and independent problem-solving from an early age. Puppies are introduced to complex scent scenarios, controlled difficulty progression, environmental challenges, and longer aged trails to build reliability and resilience.
Through structured imprinting, reward-based methodology, and exposure to real-world conditions, we cultivate puppies that confidently commit to odor, maintain focused trailing behavior, and demonstrate the core characteristics required for future operational work.
Ideal for working-dog handlers, SAR teams, and anyone raising a high-potential scent-tracking partner.
Our scent work program builds the essential skills needed for reliable odor recognition and targeted search performance. Dogs learn to identify, isolate, and commit to specific human scent profiles while developing strong indication behaviors and focused search patterns. Training includes progressive odor imprinting, variable environmental conditions, controlled contamination challenges, and increased scent discrimination to ensure accuracy under real-world pressures.
Whether preparing for man-trailing, SAR deployment, or specialized K-9 applications, our scent work training develops a dog’s natural olfactory strengths into disciplined, dependable operational capability.
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Interested in developing your dog’s natural scenting abilities? We offer guidance and resources to help you get started with tracking and man-trailing training, from foundational skills to real-world application.
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Rusty is a proven working man-trailing K-9 based in Colorado. Follow his training journey, learn about scent work and K-9 handling, and support his mission through exclusive Rusty gear.
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