Track, Trail & Find Dog Handler & Instructor
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You will achieve recognition as an excellent Track, Trail and Find Dog Trainer.
Without recognised credentials, you are left competing on price while clients choose ‘certified’ competitors. In today’s market, credibility and recognised competencies are what make you stand out from the rest.
Join the elite and learn from three intensive weeks of face-to-face teaching, plus online support that never stops.
This is where instinct becomes artistry. Picture your dog dropping its nose to lock onto a fresh track, lifting its head to follow a person’s trail, then casting into the wind to catch a scent plume and drive forward to the find. That is the moment this programme is built to create, and it positions you as the expert clients seek out and want to learn from.
You will master three disciplines in one confident dog. Most courses teach a single skill in isolation.
We teach tracking, trailing and Air Scent Seek side by side, giving the dog permission to think, choose and problem-solve, so it becomes a genuine searcher that switches instinctively between a ground track, a person’s trail, and scent carried on the wind.
Receive three intensive weeks of direct learning.
With online support between the weeks: ongoing advice, webinars, resources and an exclusive practitioner community. You will leave with proven techniques, professional tools, and a full training programme of your own to use.
The Track, Trail & Find programme.
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Monday 8th - Friday 12th March 2027
Week One. Foundations of Track, Trail & Find
Your first week covers core principles of three disciplines: how dogs use scent, scent behaviour on ground and air, and building emotional connection with motivation.
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Monday 10th - Friday 14th May 2027
Week Two. Building Real-World Search Skills
This week challenges you with more realistic, demanding situations across all three disciplines, increasing distance, scent ageing, contamination management, decoys, and reliable indications.
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Monday 13th - Friday 17th September 2027
Week Three. Become the Instructor Everyone Wants
The final week shifts from doing to teaching the work. You'll learn to design Track, Trail & Find sessions, coach handlers, structure classes, and present exciting, progressive classes.
Your investment
£2,999 + VAT.
That is £3,598.80 in total, or from just £10 a day over 12 months.
One investment in three intensive weeks that gives you a genuine City & Guilds Assured Credential and a career that clients will search for.
1. You get City & Guilds Digital Credentials: a City & Guilds Assured Track, Trail & Find certificate that clients recognise and trust.
2. You get a new income: run your own tracking, trailing and search classes; the fee soon pays for itself, then every booking is yours to keep.
3. You get real, hands-on training: three weeks learning directly with Dr Robert Hewings and an excellent team, so you leave knowing exactly what to do.
4. You get support for life: resources, webinars, expert advice and a friendly community, long after the course ends.
5. You get to stand out: offer the spectacular Air Scent Seek discipline clients are crying out for, and charge what you are worth.
6. You get to spread the cost: from less than £10 a day over 12 months.
7. You get £300 off: save over £300 when you pay in full.
Best offer: save 10% when you pay in full, that is over £300 off. Prefer to spread it? Our easy payment scheme lets you pay from £10 a day over up to 12 months.
Easy Payment Scheme
Free ‘Smelly Socks’ Evidence
Our Training Location
Location: Statfold Barn Railway. Ashby Rd, Tamworth B79 0BU.
The postcode/SatNav may take you away from ‘Statfold Barn Railway. We also have ‘What Three Words’ that can help, holds.soup.code for the front entrance and hails.games.reason for the entrance to the classroom where there is plenty of parking outside.
Timings: 09:00 – 16:00: Tea, Coffee and ‘Posh Biscuits’ provided.
Accommodation: Our training venue offers camping, caravan and motorhome hook-up with large exercise areas for your dog . This accommodation is available at an additional cost, via our venue managers, info@statfold.com
The booking secures a place for yourself and one dog. However, some people choose to bring two dogs, but these need to be rotated within your allocated ‘training/search slot’.
The first day of all our courses are predominantly classroom-based theory lessons, plenty of breaks will be given for you to exercise your dogs, and all our parking is within a private, safe and secure area.
Full joining instructions will be sent upon booking.