Your AKC Scent Work Reports
Which are the top 10 [fill in the breed] dogs in AKC Scent Work? One frequent question we get is “Which of your reports shows the Scent Work rankings for a particular breed?” And the only real answer to that is “what do you mean by ‘ranking’?” Because the AKC has not defined any kind …
If you are logged in to WeSmellBetter with a free account, you have access to “My Dogs” and “My Packs” under the My Stuff menu. What is “My Dogs” “My Dogs” is important. “My Dogs” is used in a variety of drop-down menus throughout the rest of the site for reporting and for tracking trial …
I saw that the AKC had created an Advisory Committee for Scent Work, but had no real idea what an Advisory Committee is (or even that it is A Thing). But since the human brain defaults to “seeing” what it wants to “see,” I immediately formed the idea that this was some sort of “Town …
WeSmellBetter Analysis By State 2025 and all Years Region 5
WeSmellBetter Analysis By State 2025 and all Years Region 4
WeSmellBetter Analysis By State 2025 and all Years Region 3
Same song, second verse. Here is the “2025 and all years so far through January 24, 2026” starters and pass rate information. Puerto Rico is included in Region 2 but has not had any trials at all and so I did not include them in the charts. That is not meant to be a slight …
All The Words of explanation are on Page 1, so I won’t repeat them except to say let me know when you find mistakes as I am sure there will be some. I am publishing this here because I can replace the file as corrections are made; if I put it in the Facebook Group, …
In the WeSmellBetter Facebook Group, Bill Gaskins said, “It would be interesting to look for a quantitative correlation to see success rates by region. Does Texas do better than NJ and so on…” This posts begins that analysis, looking at Q rates by class for each of the five AKC Scent Work Regions. I only …
This is an update of last year’s post. There are things I’d like to explore further but… what would YOU like to know? I hope you’ll weigh in! “Trial” is as defined by the AKC, an individually-numbered events, so this does not equate to “Weekends” or “Days.” A steady increase continues. As of January 20, …