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Scent pads
At Last week's training seminar for Search and Rescue, they had us scent
gauze pads, and then send the dog to find the scent that matched the pad. This morning, I found a mushroom. But i couldn't see any more. So I scented Tuck on the mushroom, and he went out and found two hats full of mushrooms for me. |
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Scent pads
"diddy" none wrote in message . .. At Last week's training seminar for Search and Rescue, they had us scent gauze pads, and then send the dog to find the scent that matched the pad. This morning, I found a mushroom. But i couldn't see any more. So I scented Tuck on the mushroom, and he went out and found two hats full of mushrooms for me. Cool! I can think of some other handy applications...truffles? Money? |
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Scent pads
"Wingnut" spoke these words of wisdom in
: "diddy" none wrote in message . .. At Last week's training seminar for Search and Rescue, they had us scent gauze pads, and then send the dog to find the scent that matched the pad. This morning, I found a mushroom. But i couldn't see any more. So I scented Tuck on the mushroom, and he went out and found two hats full of mushrooms for me. Cool! I can think of some other handy applications...truffles? Money? I have never found a truffle to scent him on. ARE there any in the US? |
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"diddy" none wrote in message . .. "Wingnut" spoke these words of wisdom in : "diddy" none wrote in message . .. At Last week's training seminar for Search and Rescue, they had us scent gauze pads, and then send the dog to find the scent that matched the pad. This morning, I found a mushroom. But i couldn't see any more. So I scented Tuck on the mushroom, and he went out and found two hats full of mushrooms for me. Cool! I can think of some other handy applications...truffles? Money? I have never found a truffle to scent him on. ARE there any in the US? No, I don't believe we have them here...I was kidding. But more seriously, I wonder whether dogs or pigs have the better sniffers? |
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On 2009-05-04 16:07:24 -0400, diddy none said:
At Last week's training seminar for Search and Rescue, they had us scent gauze pads, and then send the dog to find the scent that matched the pad. This morning, I found a mushroom. But i couldn't see any more. So I scented Tuck on the mushroom, and he went out and found two hats full of mushrooms for me. That's amazing! Now you can dry and sell the extra shrooms! (I adore dried mushrooms and use them all the time) |
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Scent pads
"Wingnut" spoke these words of wisdom in
: "diddy" none wrote in message . .. "Wingnut" spoke these words of wisdom in : "diddy" none wrote in message . .. At Last week's training seminar for Search and Rescue, they had us scent gauze pads, and then send the dog to find the scent that matched the pad. This morning, I found a mushroom. But i couldn't see any more. So I scented Tuck on the mushroom, and he went out and found two hats full of mushrooms for me. Cool! I can think of some other handy applications...truffles? Money? I have never found a truffle to scent him on. ARE there any in the US? No, I don't believe we have them here...I was kidding. But more seriously, I wonder whether dogs or pigs have the better sniffers? I don't know, but the mushroom hunting didn't go as well today. My husband searched the area, and found two. I then sent Tuck in, and he went nuts. He tried to retrieve pepper tops which are very fragile, and they fell appart into confetti sized peices. So I requested a passive indication, and he would lie down on them. (DIRECTLY on them) which shattered them like confetti. Or he's paw them, and he found one large sized area abundant with them and was unsure as to how to indicate them all and he rolled over and over on them all, shattering them. Then once they were confetti, the smell was still there, and he kept coming back to indicate the areas that he pulverized the mushrooms over and over again. He also indicated multiple times, the areas where they once were, and had been picked. After awhile, he was doing so much redundant work, that we decided to just call off the k9 mushroom search. So Of the 30-40 that he found, only about 12 were left large enough to collect. The rest have spores well distributed for next year's crop. I guess 12 is better than the none we would have found, but still.. It would have been a bit nicer, had he preserved them intact. |
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Scent pads
On 2009-05-05 12:26:53 -0400, diddy none said:
and he rolled over and over on them all, shattering them. I hope you have years to work on this, but thanks for the great picture! |
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diddy none wrote:
snip I have never found a truffle to scent him on. ARE there any in the US? Yes there are http://www.natruffling.org/faq.htm However the native truffles are not the same as those that are native to Europe. -- Bill Clodius los the lost and net the pet to email |
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Dogs are indeed good at sniffing. I dont know about pigs however.
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