The Nose Work Training Logbook
One session. One spread. Nothing lost to the page turn.
Most training journals give you a few lines and expect a whole search to fit. This one gives every session two facing pages, so the book lies flat and everything about that search is in front of you at once.
- Left page: what you set up — location, weather, wind and a compass rose, element, target odour and hide age
- A three-row hide table: placement, height, vessel, and whether the hide was accessible
- Right page: a dot-grid map of the search area and the path the dog actually worked
- Search time, alert type, false alerts and fringes, reward, and a drive and focus rating
124 pages · 6 x 9 · sized for a kit bag.
Set up on the left, what happened on the right
Fill it in at the venue — the wind and the ground are exactly what you will not remember by the time you get home.
Before the dog runs
Date, time, location, indoors or out, temperature, humidity and wind, with a compass rose for direction. Then the element — interior, exterior, container, vehicle or buried — and the hides.
What the dog did
A large dot-grid map to sketch walls, wind and hide positions, and the route the dog really took, with search time, alerts, false alerts and fringes beside it.
Trials, not just training
Thirty-six trial and competition records at the back: date, hosting club, level, element, judge, result and placement, kept alongside the sessions that got you there.
Every session, and every trial, for one dog
- Two pages per session — the book lies flat while you write
- Session index — at the front, so any session is seconds away
- Dog profile — photo, registered and call name, odours introduced, titles earned
- 36 trial records — club, level, element, judge, result and placement
- One dog only — not a shared book with a column squeezed in for a second
For handlers who train and trial
Written for nose work and scent detection handlers who want a record detailed enough to learn from — the conditions, the hide, and exactly what the dog did.
Every page belongs to the dog on the cover. It is printed on white paper that takes pen or pencil, and sized to live in a kit bag.
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