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Julie Forbes from the Dog Talk radio show, interviews Miriam Rose about Northwest Noseworks and K9 Nose Work. This is “Pawdcast” #112 on www.dogradioshow.com and it can be downloaded, for free, from ITunes.

Three Northwest Noseworks dogs and handlers are featured in this article:

Take a whiff of this story because the dogs come out smelling sweet.

It's a new sport where pooches use their noses to find hidden scents in short order. It's a takeoff on drug-sniffing dogs.

And from the happy looks on the mugs of canines and their owners Sunday, the competition was as rewarding as a man in a Mackinaw shouting, That dog can hunt.

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Nose Work Classes Offer Plenty Of Fun And Focus (Seattle Kennel Club)

I get it and it all makes scents!

It's difficult to imagine how intensely sense of smell dominates a dog's brain until you've seen a bunch of them in action and having fun at a K 9 Nose Work class. You can read all you want about the species incredible olfactory skills and observe them in a home setting, but in a spacious instructional environment with different breeds of all shapes, sizes and ages, it's dog sports version of The Great Equalizer.

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Tapping Hidden Hunter In Any Dog (Seattle Times)

Dressed in her hunting gear a Day-Glo pink harness Kaili bounced with enthusiasm, whimpering and whining.

“All right,” said owner Cynthia Fry, 76. “Go find it!”

The fluffy white Coton de Tulear dashed around the room at the Woodinville Positive Dog Training center, sniffing everywhere and finally spotting what she was looking for: two Q-tips dipped in birch scent, one hidden inside a PVC pipe and the other beneath a bicycle.

Dogs have a keen sense of smell that’s long been used professionally for detecting explosives and illegal drugs. More recently, dogs have been taken out in boats and used to search for whale scat, or used at possible crime scenes to search for bodies. They’re even used for detecting contraband CDs and bed bugs.

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Nose Work (Bark June 2010)

Echo, a slight, 33-pound sighthound mix, boldly bounds through the training-room door. Her tail swishes high and wild as her sensitive nose quivers in anticipation of the scent-searching game about to ensue. Her owner, Amy Cook, releases her into the room full of people with the cue Find it! and she surges ahead to explore a random row of carboard boxes strewn about the floor. Even for a dog-savvy observer …

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