This is the course for you if you're more than casually interested in nose work and fancy a bit of "nerding" 🙂
The course runs over six weekends spread throughout one year, and gives you a thorough and comprehensive introduction to search and rescue – both in theory and practice. The main focus is on practical work with your dog during the gatherings.
This is what you'll learn on the course:
You'll learn to harness your dog's impressive sense of smell to search for everything from chanterelles and keys to mobile phones – or whatever else you'd like to teach your dog to find.
Topics we work with:
- Basic skills for track work
- Basic skills for indoor and outdoor search
- Basic skills for platform work
- Water search
- Surface search
- ID search
- Indication
- Reading your dog
- Optimisation and quantification
- Scent dispersal
- Control and calmness in search
Course weekends (2026/2027):
- 22–23 August
- 26–27 September
- 28–29 November
- 9–10 January
- 13–14 March
- 5–6 June
(We reserve the right to make changes to the course dates.)
Practical information:
- Location: Sola area
- Price: 14,500 NOK\
(can be split into five payments)
- Enrolment deadline: 12 August
- Instructors: Karin B. Lyng and John G. Kalvik
Places are limited, and enrolment is binding. After the deadline, we will select the best qualified applicants.
We look forward to welcoming you to an instructive and inspiring year of search work at the highest level!
Enrolment deadline is 9 August