Your AKC Scent Work Reports
What are “Groups” and why might you care? The AKC has seven breed groups into which breeds are categorized. The Groups are extremely important for conformation showing but have pretty limited application to anything else. Entry into some Performance events like Hunting and Retrieving or EarthDog or Herding are often restricted but typically by breed …
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 …