K9 Scent & Search UK

About Us

Our History

Jo has worked full time as a dog trainer and behaviour trainer and since 2003 when she established K9 Solutions.  After looking for something new to bring to her clients she attended a workshop in 2012 on pet dog scent detection and that was it – hooked!  

Nosework found it’s self in the class curriculum in 2015 and it’s popularity meant that in 2018 K9 Scent & Search UK launched, a dedicated nosework business brining training and progress to pet dog teams but it wasn’t until COVID lockdown in 2020 that she had the time to take a step back and look at where she wanted the businesses to go, her work load and client commitments kept K9 Scent & Search on the side lines but the time off allowed Jo to restructure both businesses and from 2020, she teaches nothing but nosework not only to her own clients but travels up and down the country running problem solving workshops and training days for other scentwork clubs.

Sue has worked along side Jo from the very beginning and whilst Jo was away working, she kept the classes running but in 2022 it was obvious that it the business was too big for just the 2 trainers so Jo began a mentoring programme with 3 hand picked trainers – Sharon, Tracy & Wendy

I have attended too many training courses, workshops and seminars to list but my search for knowledge continues every day.

From my first workshop back in 2012 I was addicted, it was such a different sport to what I had been used to and I wanted to bring it to the pet dog owners so they could enjoy it as much as I did and made the move to full time nosework trainer 2020.

Although it was Olive who started the scentwork journey with me, she preferred obedience and tricks to sniffing things out but my longhaired weimaraner, Ehren was more than happy to take her place and our journey together has been amazing. 

Ehren has been and still is an amazing dog. We have worked our way through the Scentwork UK Levels and are just about to move to the final stage of Level 8, we completed our Skills for Justice Mantrailing Team in August 2019 with the British Mantrailing Academy and we have done so much together and loved every moment.

In 2019, I thought it would be fun to add a working cocker spaniel to the family and it has been awesome, so much so that 2 years later, I added another.  Affectionately known as the Feral Twins, Flea and Tic are everything you could hope for in a detection dog.

In 2021 I began my NASDU Operational training with Flea, we achieved our Level 3 Tobacco Detection Dog License, it was a wonderful journey which has led to operational deployments with Trading Standards and we have enjoyed the challenges of real life detection. 

Tic joined us in November 2020 and by March 2021 we gained our NASDU Level 3 Proactive Drugs Detection license.

I am a co-founder of The National Nosework Association offering competitions to pet dog teams across the Country.

I have trained and studied and practiced and competed bringing each area of my study to the operational level of training.