Blue 3D text reading 'The Crafty Cannie' on a black background.

Covering Southport, Formby & surrounding areas.

Do More With Your Dog

Dogs love having a purpose — especially when it’s with you.

At The Crafty Canine, I help you turn your dog’s natural instincts into fun, fulfilling hobbies like mantrailing, scentwork, and gundog-style retrieve training.

This isn’t your everyday training — it’s enrichment, adventure, and quality time doing what your dog loves most.
Text graphic with the words 'The Crafty Canine Mantrailing' in large blue and black letters.

In Mantrailing the dog uses their amazing scenting abilities to find a hidden person, the dog take scent from an article and match this to the scent trail left by the hidden person in order to locate them.

Graphic design with text reading 'The Crafty Canine Gundog Retrieving for Dummies' and a picture of a green dummy training target for hunting dogs on the right side.

These classes offer a modern take on gundog training, teaching you and your dog the love for a retrieve.

Open to all dogs, any breed, any size any age welcome.

We will be teaching your dogs to pick up, searching skills, steadiness, obedience, team work and much more!

Bold, blue and black text reading 'The Crafty Canine Scentwork' with the words stacked.

The Crafty Canine Scent work is a little different than most, you don’t need to sign up for a 6 week course or keep up to date with your homework! You can come to as many or as few as you like.

Its all about fun!