Scent Class Fun and Easy Beginner

DO YOU LOVE PLAYING WITH YOUR DOG?

What about using your dogs Seeking System?

Why?
Enrichment is powerful - Our dogs Seeking System
🌿 Tapping into Your Dog’s Seeking System Have you ever noticed how sniffing seems to calm your dog? That’s not just “cute dog stuff”—it’s brain chemistry in action.
🧠🐾 When your dog sniffs, they’re activating their SEEKING system—a primary emotional system in the brain responsible for motivation, exploration, and learning. Dr. Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist and affective researcher, identified the SEEKING system as one of the fundamental emotional circuits of all mammals.
🌀 This system is like your dog’s curiosity engine.
Engaging it can:
✔ Reduce stress
✔ Build optimism
✔ Shift them from reactive → thinking mode
✔ Create real learning without pressure And here’s the sciencey cherry on top:
🐶 When dogs smell, odour signals bypass the thalamus (the sensory relay station in the brain) and go straight to the amygdala—their emotional brain. That’s why scent-based activities can spark calmness faster than other enrichment.
Here’s how to work with it, not against it:
✨ Sniff walks
✨ Scatter feeding
✨ Find it games
✨ Scentwork-style training (even indoors)
✨ Letting them "hunt" for dinner instead of eating from a bowl This isn’t just enrichment—it’s behavioural support. Let’s celebrate that working their nose is training their brain.
💡🐕 When you activate your dog’s SEEKING system, you’re building emotional health, curiosity, and confidence—one sniff at a time.
This mini course is really cool and you get to learn systems that some professionals use in teaching their K-9partners.

WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT K-9 SCENT GAMES?
Discover your dogs world of scent.
Transform this into a learning adventure.
Easy to follow scent game for every dog.
Boost your dogs confidence and provide mental stimulation.
Strengthen your bond while enhancing their physical and mental well being.

It's a activity involving you and your dog playing an elaborate game of hide and seek - you hide a unique scent and they go find it.
K-9 games are a wonderful way to build your relationship and connection with your dog that you dream of.
This introduction to scent games is divided into 3 Workshops.
Fun, achievable games in bite size pieces and cleverly designed to give you everything you need to get started with K-9 scent to get you started perfect for beginners.

FUN FACT - Dogs have 300 million olfactory receptors in their nose!

Did you know that daily nose work sessions can improve your dog's positivity bias.

Learn games you can play with your dog that they will love.

We will Teach you the important steps in the right order.
Games that you can take on the road.
The easy beginner steps can be brought out anytime and anywhere to engage your dogs brain.

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Sylvia Koczerzuk

Meet Sylvia Koczerzuk

Sylvia is a Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT 2000- 2025) and Certified Dog Behaviour Consultant (IAABC), a Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer and Predation Substitute Training - Certified Instructor who helps dogs and their guardians create calmer, more connected lives with ethical and humane, science-based training.

Long before there were as many formal schools, certificates, and degree pathways available in dog behaviour, Sylvia was already committed to learning. Her early education came from following and learning from veterinary behaviourists, applied animal behaviourists, and other respected professionals whose work helped shape her understanding of dogs, behaviour, and humane training.

She attended the prestigious SF SPCA Dog Training Academy ( now knowns the Dog Training Academy) , studied at Behaviour Works with Dr. Susan Friedman in Living and Learning with Animals. Sylvia is also a Fear Free Certified Professional and has completed further education and certifications in scentwork enrichment, canine reactivity, separation anxiety, Dynamic Dog (gait and posture assessment), canine arthritis, and pain-informed learning. Most recently, she is completing her clinical canine behaviour degree (an internationally OFQUAL-qualified CBC).

Sylvia has been helping animals and their people since 1989. Over the years, she has worked in veterinary hospitals, shelters, rescues, a farm sanctuary, and private practice. Her work has included dog walking, grooming, group classes, private training, virtual coaching, and behaviour consulting. She also travelled south to assist Hurricane Katrina animal survivors.

What Sylvia loves most is helping people better understand their dogs and showing them how small, thoughtful changes can lead to meaningful progress. She knows that behaviour is not just about training. It is shaped by health, environment, learning history, emotions, and the unique dog in front of you.

That is why Sylvia takes a whole-dog, whole-picture approach. She combines assessment, understanding dog emotions, behaviour knowledge, and practical coaching to help guardians move forward in a way that feels clear, positive, and achievable.

If you are ready to better understand your dog, build confidence together, and create real-life results, Sylvia would love to help.

Visit the blog to learn more about Sylvia and the difference between a Dog Trainer and a Behaviour Consultant.

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