Mantrailing
Mantrailing is a very popular dog sport, in the UK. We offer a range of training options for you and your dog from the complete beginner to advanced teams.
Mantrailing Training
We teach you the basics of Mantrailing, ensuring you have a strong understanding of this amazing sport of Mantrailing, which is becoming a very widespread sport in the UK and the benefits it has for your dog.
Mantrailing is teaching your dog to find a person. We teach the dog to follow the scent of a hidden person, using his nose to locate them. Mantrailing utilises the dog’s natural ability to sniff out the individual scent from a person. Dogs have an amazing ability to know which skin cells were left first, so that they can follow the direction of travel of the hidden person.
Mantrailing is the very basics of what search and rescue dogs do. Within the first session with us your dog can be finding a person who is hidden close by. Dogs can find people in all different terrains, and in all different weather conditions. So, no matter what the weather our courses go ahead! (With exception of severe weather warnings of course) This is a great fun game for dogs who have energy to burn!
All our Mantrailing courses are taught with positive only training. As with every new sport you introduce your dog to, there is a chance they don’t take to it. However, we tend to find that a high percentage of the dogs who come to us for this fun learning experience, do grasp the basics, and more importantly enjoy it.
We also find that most dogs enjoy a day out with mum/dad getting loads of treats. So, we can’t promise your dog will be a natural at this but, we always try to make it fun for dogs and humans. As with all our training, if we feel that this activity is not in your dog’s best interest, or they are at all distressed/stressed we will stop the training at our discretion immediately. The trainer’s decision is final.
Introduction to Mantrailing
1-2-1
Mantrailing Foundation
Hide & Seek Club
Introduction to Mantrailing
We teach you the basics of Mantrailing, ensuring you have a strong understanding of this amazing sport of Mantrailing, which is becoming a very widespread sport in the UK and the benefits it has for your dog.
1-2-1
The one-to-one sessions are for people who prefer individual tuition. This can be for an introductory session or to work on something specific. These can be arranged by contacting us directly. The cost of this taking place within our catchment area will be £95 for a two-hour session.
Mantrailing Foundation
This is designed for people/dogs that have completed an introduction to mantrailing and want to progress. During these sessions we work on the handler and dog skill levels and confidence. We work in lots of different environments and use different drills to ensure you and your dog learn new skills and develop your current ones. Having attended some of these courses and been assessed as ready you may then wish to to move up to the next level (Hide & Seek Club)
Hide & Seek Club
Club Membership is open to those who have successfully completed an introduction to Mantrailing with us and we deem your dog ready to join. You must demonstrate a willingness to learn and adhere to our code of conduct (Click here to view this). There are a limited number of spaces available in the club so you may not get a space right away.
The club meets every second Sunday in various locations around Fife. Our meet times are 10am, 12pm and 2pm. You will not be running your dog for two hours solid but will be taking turns with the other group members to “find” the missing person. You may occasionally be asked to be the missing person.
As a member you will enjoy the benefits of:
- Our regular (Fortnightly) meets at a discounted rate
- A free t-shirt
- Any club merchandise at discounted rate
- First shout on any up-and-coming ScentWork events or workshops with special guest instructors
- Use of members only special training venues.
- Members only messenger group.
- Spaces will be limited.
- One year membership £55 (non-refundable)
- Members Fortnightly rate £15
- Non-members rate £25 saving you £200 a year, if you use the club 20 times a year, plus all the benefits.This is a fun informal club, you can expect to occasionally get wet, occasionally get sweaty, occasionally fall over, but always have fun, and always talk about dogs (a lot!).
You can attend the club as a non-member, the cost for this is £20. All the same rules apply.
