If I order the Nosework Scent Kit and run out of prepared swabs how do I prepare new ones?

This comes down to where your dog is at in training. A trained dog with experience may only need swabs that have been scented with a cotton ball and one drop of scent.

A new dog probably needs more odor and a stronger scented swab.

When you say “A DROP” I would use a very very small drop. Like a drop from an insulin needle – not a drop from a dropper.

Your goal needs to be to train your dog to recognize odor and follow it to a FIND. If you use super strong scents in training and then go to a trial and they use lightly scented swabs your dog may have problems. So test your dog – every now and then throw a heavily scented swab with a big drop but train with lightly scented items.

When I worked as a K9 handler we would try to expose our dogs to LARGE qualities of drugs every now and then just so the dogs got used to a lot of odor and they would know what to do.

So use your head and think outside the box and you will have a better trained dog that’s ready for whatever it faces.

Good luck.

Regards,
Ed Frawley