From April 5-11, 2025, Dave and Deb Schneider and I hosted a survey to ask stakeholders what changes they’d like to see in AKC Scent Work. It was completely unofficial with no AKC involvement at all. We posted the link to the “Friends of AKC Scent Work” and WeSmellBetter Facebook groups and asked people to share among their fellows, and we had over 1000 responses during the one-week period.
On the 12th, I emailed the raw results files to anyone who had requested them, which was about half the respondents. Two dozen or so of those emails bounced back for incorrect email address. I know there were some initial issues on some devices with text input fields on the survey displaying white typing on a white background so people couldn’t see what they were entering, which probably exacerbated that. So I wanted to provide those raw results files here, for everyone that didn’t get them in email and for posterity (such as it is).
Free-form comments only (the single “if you could change ONE thing about Scent Work..” question)
Jotform Piechart of Qualitative Responses
Next step is obviously to get this in front of the AKC and Dave and I are working on that.