Become a crusty, and get a dog on a rope yourself (doesn’t matter how well trained the dog is, another dog will cause much general excitement and bottom sniffing – something that will make other scents much more difficult to read)
Carry a bag of aniseeds around – most mutts go a bit crazy for that smell, and will hunt it out in preference to anything else (you could try tom-cat urine too, if you don’t mind reeking of tom-cat piss…:laugh_at:)
Coffee is good (it has a thick, oily smell that hides other less pungent things – even from a dedicated snuffler)
At the end of the day, if you’ve been anywhere the substance the dog is trained for has been used, you will smell of “reward” to it and it will tag you – the trick is fooling the handler by keeping it undetectable to them (ie – hide it well). If they search and find nothing, you say you were sitting in a pub garden, and someone nearby might have been smoking herb (the dogs are usually trained to just sit in front of suspects if they detect the smell, not search for the source, and are mostly an excuse to search people without “reasonable cause”).
Or you could pretend a phobia of dogs, and have a hairy fit if it comes within 20 feet (say you were bitten as a kid or something…:wink:)
