PENNY SCOTT-FOX

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Owner, Penny Scott-Fox, is one of the nation’s most respected dog behavioral specialists. She created and ran the behavior department for the Pasadena Humane Society in Pasadena, California for twelve years, and is a fellow of the Pet Behavior Institute in Durham, England. She was awarded an alien of Extraordinary Ability for her contribution to animal welfare in the US.

Penny is an accomplished speaker and has lectured around the country for Emily Weiss Consulting on the SAFER behavior assessment for dogs in animal shelters. She has developed several behavior modification programs for dogs and cats in the shelter and rescue environment. Her successful techniques have been covered by media outlets around the world.

Penny Scott-Fox was one of the original seven founding Certified Nose Work Instructors and prior to being hired by the AKC, a faculty member of the NACSW (National Association of Canine Scent Work). She helped popularize the activity and sport of Nose Work in Southern California. In 2017 the AKC hired Penny as an Expert judge to help them start their own sport of Scent Work.  At her Altadena, CA dog training school, Scott-Fox Training, Penny teaches Nose Work teams for all levels of competition.  She is also an official and expert judge for several scent work organizations; AKC Scent Work, North American Sport Dog Association (NASDA) and K9 ABC Games

Penny lives with two Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers,  Zest and Taiba (Zest’s daughter).  Like Penny’s other dogs Zest has proven time and time again to be a spectacular sport dog in everything she does.  In agility she has her first Master Agility Championship and an invite to the 2023 AKC Agility Invitational.

She has earned 2 AKC Detective Titles, an Elite 1 in NACSW and was the first dog in the country to earn the Supreme Master Champion Title in NASDA. 
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Taiba, one of five puppies that Zest whelped is proving to be just like her mother and is already excelling in NASDA and AKC scent work.  Her agility career is just about to  start.

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MACH Javahill’s Thanks For The Flavours
MXB MJG MFB TQX T2B4 CA BCAT SWD2
​SWM SHDM CGCA CGCU TKI (Zest)

Foxley’s Run for the Roses
​SWA SHDA CGC (Taiba)

Penny’s past dog Blaze, was a brilliant team mate who she lost to cancer in August 2021.  He was the first Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever to earn the coveted Elite Nose Work title, the first AKC Detective title and the first NASDA Master Champion in both Lost Item Recovery and Shed.  He was  a very accomplished Agility dog – ranking in the top five of the breed for 2017, and Number 1 in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.  They had a spectacular life together. 
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Penny’s past dog Turner, a flat coated retriever, is the 2015 National Nose Work Champion. She was also a certified therapy dog and Scott-Fox Puppy Pre School socializer.
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BLAZE on the weave polls

TURNER doing Nose Work

ZEST on the lure course