Try it yourself
The pound coin's under one of these
Your dog would smell it in a second. You'll have to guess.
How to relieve frustration and double your dog's sleepwithout bigger walks, stricter rules, or enforced naps
One thing is certain: frustration always comes out somewhere. The dog obsessions, the pulling, the sock theft. This is how you drain it, whatever the breed.
Sound familiar?
The walk isn't always available. The dog's needs are.
On lead. Too hot. Park's chaos. Rest day. Whatever the reason, a dog who only half-worked today brings the leftovers home, and you feel it by evening. The scatter feeding and lick mats help, but they were never meant to be the job. They're the extra 20% on the side of one.
Without a proper job, dogs go self-employed. That's the barking, the sock theft, the holes in the lawn. The fix is a better job than the one they invented.
Spend food wisely
The problem with scattering food
and snuffle mats
A whole handful vanishes in minutes, and the work stops the second the food does. If you're trying to properly work your dog every day, their food allowance is the most valuable resource you've got. Scent Games spends that same handful and gets around five times as much work out of the dog. It's a no-brainer.
Same food, going five times as far
Or spend no food at all
The reward at the end of a search doesn't have to be food. Swap it for a toy, and the find ends in a chase, a catch and a tug instead. Your dog gets to practise more of the predatory sequence they were born with, more frustration leaves the tank, and your food allowance never gets touched.
Choose to work with food, or with toys.
What you get
Five lessons. One proper job. Yours for life.
Watch me teach it to a complete beginner dog, then copy it with yours. About an hour and a half of lessons in all.
- 0
Everything Scent Work, the intro 9 min
How the job fits your dog's day, and how much to do, from ten minutes a day to full sessions.
- 1
Scent detection: day one 16 min
Everyone's a beginner. Teach the search on cue.
- 2
Teaching the indication 33 min
The point, sit or bark that means "found it".
- 3
Combining search & indication 20 min
Full scent detection, start to finish.
- 4
Switching rewards 8 min
Swap food for chase, catch and tug, and make the job breed-specific.
From the reviews
What happens when a dog finally gets work
"For years I was trying to train him to be more calm and easier to live with (and has spent many hours and money)... And now, after I have made couple of changes to his life (scatter feeding, free work, scent games, arousal management)... the results are just amazing. Even my husband, who was slightly sceptical (he's psychiatrist, by the way)... is now just amazed... [Today] he was able to recall from watching 3 deers on a field without any hesitation."
"Max's training has clearly pointed out to me that what I actually have done is create a massively over stimulated, fit but exhausted dog who isn't getting his breed specific needs met, his brain excercised enough or anywhere near enough sleep... I have been playing find it with his food and using a flirt pole to play with him and he is the happiest little terrirer in the world. He's behaving like a puppy - it is soooo delightful to see."
The receipts
All of these people said the same thing
Meeting their dog's needs was the single most impactful change they made. Their words, not ours.
630+ reviews and counting on Trustpilot
Get the series
One payment. Yours for life.
The Scent Games Series
Members had paid £80–£100 for single in-person sessions before finding this.
The whole series costs less than half of one.
- All five lessons: full scent detection, day one to finished job
- Yours for life, on any device, watch as often as you like
- New episodes added to this series are yours too
- Any breed, any age, indoors or out
- 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked
Already an MK9Plus member? This series is already in your library. Don't buy it twice.
The bare-hands guarantee
Run it with your own dog for 30 days. If you wouldn't pick up poo with your bare hands to keep this series, email us and every penny comes back. No questions, no forms, no hard feelings.
Fair questions
You're probably wondering…
Will this actually work for my breed?
It's built on the one thing every dog owns: the nose. The searching is the same for a cockapoo as it is for a Malinois. What changes is the ending, and lesson four shows you how to finish with whatever your dog was bred to love: a chase, a catch, a retrieve, a tug. In Max's words from the series: "I don't care what breed of dog you have. This is for you."
My dog is reactive, so most things are off the table.
This one isn't. The whole job runs in your living room, garden or car. No other dogs, no triggers, no busy park required. It won't fix reactivity on its own, but it gives a dog stuck on short, careful walks a way to properly work every single day. That's the foundation everything else stands on.
How much time does this take?
The lessons are about an hour and a half in total. The job itself starts at around ten minutes a day, building up to half-hour sessions as your dog gets hooked. One rule from the series: always stop while the dog is still having fun.
What do I need to buy?
Nothing, realistically. A tiny object you already own (a pound coin, a pen lid, a metal washer) plus your dog's food or a toy they love. That's the entire kit.
Is it really mine forever?
Yes. One payment of £37, and the series is in your account for life, on your phone, TV or laptop, watched as many times as you like.
Whatever you pick, pick something
Dogs don't put their needs on pause while we decide. Every week the day has no job in it, your dog gets a little better at the one they invented: the fence-barking, the sock raids, the holes in the lawn. Practice makes permanent, and they are practising.
The good version costs a pound coin, ten minutes a day, and £37. Once. I'd love you to have it.
— Max
PS: skipped to the end? Fair. Real scent detection: search, find, indicate. Any breed, any age, anywhere. Five lessons, £37 once, yours for life, 30-day no-questions guarantee.
PPS: ten minutes a day, a pound coin, and a dog that finally clocks off. That's what's on the other side of this page.