The Border Collie Geek Podcast3 Mai 2022

Episode 2: A chat with Lucy d'Auvergne about complicated Border Collies and Therapeutic Scentwork

Join me for this very interesting chat with Lucy d'Auvergne, clinical animal behaviourist and owner of very complicated collies, where she tells us her life with difficult sensitive dogs and how scentwork came into her life and allowed her to research and create a program that she called Therapeutic Scentwork for anxious dogs that struggle with every day life.

“WHAT IS THERAPUTIC SCENTWORK? In therapeutic scentwork we’re using a dog’s natural abilities in a non-forced way to support their mental wellbeing. It’s about reducing stress and building optimism and confidence in a really natural way It differs from other forms of nose-work in that it’s less formally structured than scent detection, tracking or competitive scentwork. Confidence building can be a fantastic by-product of all types of nose-work – it all allows dogs to be more ‘dog’ in the most fundamental way… Therapeutic scentwork takes sniffing in a slightly different direction in that we are primarily using sniffing to support and nurture the emotional needs of our dogs in a completely dog-led, individual way, within a loose structure.”

Books and resources that Lucy mentions in the episode:

"Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell" by Alexandra Horowitz

Also you can find Lucy and some of her games by joining her Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KnobDogsandNoses

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