Scentsory Science Zoom Seminar

The Canberra Scent Sport Club has the pleasure of offering a Zoom seminar on Friday 18 July at 7pm by Sonja Needs. The full details of the seminar are below along with a brief Bio of Sonja.The cost to club members will be $15 while non members will be $20. The Zoom link will be forwarded to the participants prior to the seminar. Application for the seminar is available on Showmanager.

Scentsory Science Seminar

In this seminar you will be introduced to the very differently perceived world your dog lives in. Dogs see, hear and smell a world o;en undetectable to human senses, and we often underestimate and sometimes overestimate their abilities. This can lead to misunderstanding between you and your dog. We are sometimes bewildered by our dogs behaviour. When they miss cues that are very obvious to us or when they seemingly react to nothing. By the end of this module you will have a much greater appreciation of the fascinating and complex sensory world our canine companions live in. In this seminar we look at the sensory abilities of dogs. We cover the physiology of a dogs eyes, ears and nose in an easy to understand way. This seminar will give you the knowledge of what your dog can see, hear and smell and the basics of why this is so.

Sonja Needs - BIO

Sonja is a published author and is currently involved in applied research in using dogs for detection in conservation and for agricultural pest and diseases. Determining firstly the ability of the dogs to detect the target odour and secondly to assess the reliability and thresholds for detection of that target odour. She has extensive knowledge on scent and how it is effected by environmental and atmospheric conditions. Sonja has expertise in sensory science and human and canine olfactory systems and lectures Animal Science (Companion Animal Biology) as well as winemaking, brewing and agricultural adaptation to climate change at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Science.