Workshops

4 Element Live Coaching for NW 1/2 & Novice /Advanced levels-

We are excited about this location! The San Luis Coastal Unified School District has buses, classrooms, warehouses, and exterior areas for us train in! This place has it all!

Just what is "Live Coaching"?

Live Coaching means you decide how you want to run the searches to meet your current training needs. You can run searches with known amount and/or location of hides. Maybe you want to focus leash handling or reading your dog. You can even run the searches "blind" with the life line option where we only intervene if needed. Do you have more than one dog in detection sports with different areas needing work? Bring them both! You can run a different dog for each element but you only get one shot to search in each element.

Searches will be set to be challenging for NW1 & 2 /Novice & Advanced Levels but no titles are required. If you are competing at a higher level, you are more than welcome to work on polishing your fine skills like leash handling, change of behavior recognition, and search strategies.

* **Dogs must know the odors of Anise, Birch, and Clove***

Your lead instructor, Pete Stevens, is the President and Lead Trainer at The Scentsable K9. Pete retired from the Chula Vista Police Department after 24.5 years. During his career, Pete worked 4 Police Service Dogs- 3 single purpose (1 patrol and 2 narcotics) and 1 dual purpose (patrol/narcotics). Pete was assigned to patrol, Gang Suppression, Narcotics Enforcement Team, and was as a Task Force Officer assigned to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Pete is a Field Training Officer, Firearms Instructor, Use of Force Instructor and has an Advanced Certificate from the California Peace Officer Standards and Training (CA POST). Pete is a CA POST K9 team evaluator for patrol and narcotics. He is a Certifying Official for the International Police Canine Association (IPCA) and was a previously a member of the IPCA Board of Directors. Pete is also NACSW trial Judge. In 2018, Pete created The Scentsable K9 which has conducted over 100 workshops and seminars focused on detection. Pete graduated from the first Canine Cognition Instructors Course at Ford K9.

Pete currently handles a black Lab named "Tina" who is single purpose narcotics detection dog at Keeper Detection.

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4 Element Live Coaching NW3/Higher & Excellent/Master

We are excited about this location! The San Luis Coastal Unified School District has buses, classrooms, warehouses, and exterior areas for us train in! This place has it all!

Just what is "Live Coaching"?

Live Coaching means you decide how you want to run the searches to meet your current training needs. You can run searches with known amount and/or location of hides. Maybe you want to focus leash handling or reading your dog. You can even run the searches "blind" with the life line option where we only intervene if needed. Do you have more than one dog in detection sports with different areas needing work? Bring them both! You can run a different dog for each element but you only get one shot to search in each element.

Searches will be set to be challenging for NW3/Higher & Excellant/Masters Levels but no titles are required. If you are competing at a lower level, you are more than welcome to really challenge yourself and focus on skills like leash handling, change of behavior recognition, and search strategies.

* **Dogs must know the odors of Anise, Birch, and Clove***

Your lead instructor, Pete Stevens, is the President and Lead Trainer at The Scentsable K9. Pete retired from the Chula Vista Police Department after 24.5 years. During his career, Pete worked 4 Police Service Dogs- 3 single purpose (1 patrol and 2 narcotics) and 1 dual purpose (patrol/narcotics). Pete was assigned to patrol, Gang Suppression, Narcotics Enforcement Team, and was as a Task Force Officer assigned to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Pete is a Field Training Officer, Firearms Instructor, Use of Force Instructor and has an Advanced Certificate from the California Peace Officer Standards and Training (CA POST). Pete is a CA POST K9 team evaluator for patrol and narcotics. He is a Certifying Official for the International Police Canine Association (IPCA) and was a previously a member of the IPCA Board of Directors. Pete is also NACSW trial Judge. In 2018, Pete created The Scentsable K9 which has conducted over 100 workshops and seminars focused on detection. Pete graduated from the first Canine Cognition Instructors Course at Ford K9.

Pete currently handles a black Lab named "Tina" who is single purpose narcotics detection dog at Keeper Detection.

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4 Element Live Coaching for NW 1/2 & Novice /Advanced levels-

I'm so happy to train at my home away from home. Suzy was one of my dearest friends and my biggest fan. I'm truly honored that the Machado Family (Paul, Neil, Scott, and Danika) are hosting some of my Live Coaching Workshops at a place that means so much to me.

Just what is "Live Coaching"?

Live Coaching means you decide how you want to run the searches to meet your current training needs. You can run searches with known amount and/or location of hides. Maybe you want to focus leash handling or reading your dog. You can even run the searches "blind" with the life line option where we only intervene if needed. Do you have more than one dog in detection sports with different areas needing work? Bring them both! You can run a different dog for each element but you only get one shot to search in each element.

Searches will be set to be challenging for NW1 & 2 /Novice & Advanced Levels but no titles are required. If you are competing at a higher level, you are more than welcome to work on polishing your fine skills like leash handling, change of behavior recognition, and search strategies.

* **Dogs must know the odors of Anise, Birch, and Clove***

Your lead instructor, Pete Stevens, is the President and Lead Trainer at The Scentsable K9. Pete retired from the Chula Vista Police Department after 24.5 years. During his career, Pete worked 4 Police Service Dogs- 3 single purpose (1 patrol and 2 narcotics) and 1 dual purpose (patrol/narcotics). Pete was assigned to patrol, Gang Suppression, Narcotics Enforcement Team, and was as a Task Force Officer assigned to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Pete is a Field Training Officer, Firearms Instructor, Use of Force Instructor and has an Advanced Certificate from the California Peace Officer Standards and Training (CA POST). Pete is a CA POST K9 team evaluator for patrol and narcotics. He is a Certifying Official for the International Police Canine Association (IPCA) and was a previously a member of the IPCA Board of Directors. Pete is also NACSW trial Judge. In 2018, Pete created The Scentsable K9 which has conducted over 100 workshops and seminars focused on detection. Pete graduated from the first Canine Cognition Instructors Course at Ford K9.

Pete currently handles a black Lab named "Tina" who is single purpose narcotics detection dog at Keeper Detection.

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4 Element Live Coaching NW3/Higher & Excellent/Master

I'm so happy to train at my home away from home. Suzy was one of my dearest friends and my biggest fan. I'm truly honored that the Machado Family (Paul, Neil, Scott, and Danika) are hosting some of my Live Coaching Workshops at a place that means so much to me.

Just what is "Live Coaching"?

Live Coaching means you decide how you want to run the searches to meet your current training needs. You can run searches with known amount and/or location of hides. Maybe you want to focus leash handling or reading your dog. You can even run the searches "blind" with the life line option where we only intervene if needed. Do you have more than one dog in detection sports with different areas needing work? Bring them both! You can run a different dog for each element but you only get one shot to search in each element.

Searches will be set to be challenging for NW3/Higher & Excellant/Masters Levels but no titles are required. If you are competing at a lower level, you are more than welcome to really challenge yourself and focus on skills like leash handling, change of behavior recognition, and search strategies.

* **Dogs must know the odors of Anise, Birch, and Clove***

Your lead instructor, Pete Stevens, is the President and Lead Trainer at The Scentsable K9. Pete retired from the Chula Vista Police Department after 24.5 years. During his career, Pete worked 4 Police Service Dogs- 3 single purpose (1 patrol and 2 narcotics) and 1 dual purpose (patrol/narcotics). Pete was assigned to patrol, Gang Suppression, Narcotics Enforcement Team, and was as a Task Force Officer assigned to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Pete is a Field Training Officer, Firearms Instructor, Use of Force Instructor and has an Advanced Certificate from the California Peace Officer Standards and Training (CA POST). Pete is a CA POST K9 team evaluator for patrol and narcotics. He is a Certifying Official for the International Police Canine Association (IPCA) and was a previously a member of the IPCA Board of Directors. Pete is also NACSW trial Judge. In 2018, Pete created The Scentsable K9 which has conducted over 100 workshops and seminars focused on detection. Pete graduated from the first Canine Cognition Instructors Course at Ford K9.

Pete currently handles a black Lab named "Tina" who is single purpose narcotics detection dog at Keeper Detection.

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4 Element Live Coaching for NW 1/2 & Novice /Advanced levels-

This is probably our favorite training venue! Come joing Pete Stevens and Kevin Olin at Strategic Operations - the premire high speed training facility for military and law enforcement tactical units! Middle East mock villages, vehicles, multi-level training building, aircraft crash site, and much more!

Just what is "Live Coaching"?

Live Coaching means you decide how you want to run the searches to meet your current training needs. You can run searches with known amount and/or location of hides. Maybe you want to focus leash handling or reading your dog. You can even run the searches "blind" with the life line option where we only intervene if needed. Do you have more than one dog in detection sports with different areas needing work? Bring them both! You can run a different dog for each element but you only get one shot to search in each element.

Searches will be set to be challenging for NW1 & 2 /Novice & Advanced Levels but no titles are required. If you are competing at a higher level, you are more than welcome to work on polishing your fine skills like leash handling, change of behavior recognition, and search strategies.

* **Dogs must know the odors of Anise, Birch, and Clove***

Your lead instructor, Pete Stevens, is the President and Lead Trainer at The Scentsable K9. Pete retired from the Chula Vista Police Department after 24.5 years. During his career, Pete worked 4 Police Service Dogs- 3 single purpose (1 patrol and 2 narcotics) and 1 dual purpose (patrol/narcotics). Pete was assigned to patrol, Gang Suppression, Narcotics Enforcement Team, and was as a Task Force Officer assigned to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Pete is a Field Training Officer, Firearms Instructor, Use of Force Instructor and has an Advanced Certificate from the California Peace Officer Standards and Training (CA POST). Pete is a CA POST K9 team evaluator for patrol and narcotics. He is a Certifying Official for the International Police Canine Association (IPCA) and was a previously a member of the IPCA Board of Directors. Pete is also NACSW trial Judge. In 2018, Pete created The Scentsable K9 which has conducted over 100 workshops and seminars focused on detection. Pete graduated from the first Canine Cognition Instructors Course at Ford K9.

Pete currently handles a black Lab named "Tina" who is single purpose narcotics detection dog at Keeper Detection.

Kevin Olin retired from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department after 30 in law enforcement. He is a former SWAT Team member and was a K9 handler for the last 9 years of his career.

Kevin’s last assignment was focused is on interdiction of large quantities of controlled substances along the southwest border. As a K9 team, they’ve recovered literally thousands of pounds of illegal narcotics, primarily in deeply concealed hidden compartments of vehicles. Several task force agencies, both federal and state, have utilized Kevin and his K9 partner to assist in locating hidden narcotics during traffic stops and the execution of search warrants. Kevin is transferring his knowledge of narcotics work to the sport of scent detection. Kevin has a passion for detection work off the clock as well. He and “Roxy”, the family Rottweiler, attended the Logan Haus Detection Fundamentals Seminar and are currently training with The Scentsable K9 in K9 scent sports. Kevin is also NACSW Nosework Trial Judge.

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4 Element Live Coaching NW3/Higher & Excellent/Master

Come join us at Strategic Operations for a challenging afternoon for the higher levels of scentwork. This workshop is limited to a smaller number of attendees due to the difficulty level and longer search times.

Just what is "Live Coaching"?

Live Coaching means you decide how you want to run the searches to meet your current training needs. You can run searches with known amount and/or location of hides. Maybe you want to focus leash handling or reading your dog. You can even run the searches "blind" with the life line option where we only intervene if needed. Do you have more than one dog in detection sports with different areas needing work? Bring them both! You can run a different dog for each element but you only get one shot to search in each element.

Searches will be set to be challenging for NW3/Higher & Excellant/Masters Levels but no titles are required. If you are competing at a lower level, you are more than welcome to really challenge yourself and focus on skills like leash handling, change of behavior recognition, and search strategies.

* **Dogs must know the odors of Anise, Birch, and Clove***

Your lead instructor, Pete Stevens, is the President and Lead Trainer at The Scentsable K9. Pete retired from the Chula Vista Police Department after 24.5 years. During his career, Pete worked 4 Police Service Dogs- 3 single purpose (1 patrol and 2 narcotics) and 1 dual purpose (patrol/narcotics). Pete was assigned to patrol, Gang Suppression, Narcotics Enforcement Team, and was as a Task Force Officer assigned to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Pete is a Field Training Officer, Firearms Instructor, Use of Force Instructor and has an Advanced Certificate from the California Peace Officer Standards and Training (CA POST). Pete is a CA POST K9 team evaluator for patrol and narcotics. He is a Certifying Official for the International Police Canine Association (IPCA) and was a previously a member of the IPCA Board of Directors. Pete is also NACSW trial Judge. In 2018, Pete created The Scentsable K9 which has conducted over 100 workshops and seminars focused on detection. Pete graduated from the first Canine Cognition Instructors Course at Ford K9.

Pete currently handles a black Lab named "Tina" who is single purpose narcotics detection dog at Keeper Detection.

Kevin Olin-

Kevin retired from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department after 30 in law enforcement. He is a former SWAT Team member and was a K9 handler for the last 9 years of his career.

Kevin’s last assignment was focused is on interdiction of large quantities of controlled substances along the southwest border. As a K9 team, they’ve recovered literally thousands of pounds of illegal narcotics, primarily in deeply concealed hidden compartments of vehicles. Several task force agencies, both federal and state, have utilized Kevin and his K9 partner to assist in locating hidden narcotics during traffic stops and the execution of search warrants. Kevin is transferring his knowledge of narcotics work to the sport of scent detection. Kevin has a passion for detection work off the clock as well. He and “Roxy”, the family Rottweiler, attended the Logan Haus Detection Fundamentals Seminar and are currently training with The Scentsable K9 in K9 scent sports. Kevin is also NACSW Nosework Trial Judge.

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The Scentsable K9 presents “I smell dead people 6.0”. A fun and challenging day of training at Strategic Operations in San Diego on Sunday September 21, 2025 from 0800-1600. Searches will include exterior areas, vehicles, and building interiors.

K9 teams are encouraged to wear their entire deployment kit (Helmets, harnesses, etc.) while performing the training searches. Our Mantra is “Train like you search. Search like you train.”

Your Instructors- Pete Stevens, Lauren Cardin, and Peter Sellas (Bios available at thescentsablek9.com)

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