Day One:

How to be the Best Team with your dog: Learn to work the dog that you have!

Becoming a well-oiled Nose Work team means learning the dog that you have at the end of the leash and how to work them to the best of both of your abilities. We will work on various exercises that will help you learn how to most efficiently cover search areas and solve the problems put before your team. Working spots for teams trialing at NW1 or NW2 level or AKC Novice/Advanced levels.

Day Two:

Becoming a Successful Team for NW3 and above.

Spend the day learning how to better read and successfully call Finish in NW3 and above searches. When has your dog found all that they can find? When to walk away from a problem they can’t solve and what to take away from that situation. Learn how to make your dog a better Problem Solver with upper level hides and complex searches. Working spots for trialing teams at NW3 & above or AKC Excellent or above.

About

Jean Richardson

Jean is the owner of Wells Creek Dog Training on the Central Coast of Oregon and has been involved in dog training in various forms since 1984. She began training her personal dog for obedience competition at that time and has continued to learn along the way. She has competed and trained her own personal dogs to titles in AKC Obedience and Rally, Agility, Herding, Tracking, Field Trials, Conformation and K9 Nose Work®. Since becoming a CNWI in 2011 she has brought K9 Nose Work® to the central coast of Oregon, teaching many classes for various organizations in the area including Safe Haven Humane Society and the Emerald Dog Obedience Club. She has since gone on to become a NACSW™ Certifying Official and Judge, as well as the NACSW Certifying Official—Director of Operations. Before moving to Oregon in 2008, she was an Instructor for Guide Dogs of America in Sylmar, CA, helping to train and then pair hundreds of guide dogs with visually impaired recipients. She has also been involved in teaching obedience, puppy and reactive dog classes in Southern California as well as Oregon.

Where: Solomon Episcopal Conference Center, Hwy. 445, Loranger, LA 70446.

When: Saturday and Sunday, February 15 & 16, 2025

Times: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (approximately)
Payment:  All fees must be received by January 31, 2025 to reserve you place.
$80 non-refundable deposit to hold your working spot
(unless we have someone on the wait list to take your spot.) 

Final payment for both working spots and auditors will be due 48 hours prior to the start of the workshop, Thursday, February 13, 2025 by 12 Noon, CST.

If you cancel and we have someone on the wait list to take your place we will refund the deposit minus a $10 administrative fee.

Working one day/Audit one day: $325
Audit 2 days: $220
Working spot 1 Day only: $250
Audit 1 day only: $125 per day

Chef cooked lunch included in fee. Please let us know if you have a special diet.

Please use the link below to register:

https://forms.gle/doB4WXGBBQUZEzLu8

Accommodations: Solomon Episcopal Conference Center also has rooms available if you’d like to stay at this lovely venue.

Standard Room: $145 with 2 queen beds. Pets are allowed. Must be crated when alone in the room and walked on a 6 foot leash. Please pick-up after your dog.

For more information or to make reservation for a room, please contact
Tammy Wyllie at 985-748-6634.
She’ll be more than happy to help you.

Thanks and we look forward to seeing you in February, 2025!!!