Scent work

Well barley has been doing very well in his scent work training, he is picking up on it really quick, well it is for his dinner. He has 3 boxes put out 2 blank and one with scent on, something like toothpaste, cinnamon, paprika, garlic, basil and so on. he has an 'article' to sniff which has the scent on then he walks down the line of boxes and should indicate which one it is by sitting by it, we are still working on this as he is slow at sitting but does know which box has the scent on. Soon he will move onto 4 boxes with one decoy scent. It is really hard work and a lot of time has to go into it, but it will be worth it in the end. he will be doing about 3-4 months of box work until he can move onto 'real' searches so that i know that he is only sniffing for one scent and that he is very willing to work. I will update this every time we do some more work or has done something very well. He does three box runs every other day, in each of the boxes there is some wet food (his dinner) so he has to find the one with the scent on to get the food not just indicate on all of them in the hope that he will get the food, he has been doing this for about a week now, so is doing well.