VALLIE AND DRAY AT WORK
(AND PLAY) IN SCHOOL
Dray takes the initiative to alert two people who are each emitting a 'high' diabetic scent in the same room, which is the scent they are working with to train both dogs during that session. The scent could be very easily substituted for any other scent, and the learned behavior to alert would immediately be applied to the new scent introduced.(AND PLAY) IN SCHOOL
This is how a dog can be used for search and rescue, he's just given the new scent of an individual, and asked to find it. The behavior is already learned.
There are sufferers who believe that their type of odor changes, sometimes a burnt rubber smell, other times fecal odor, and other times fish odor, for example. A sufferer can take saliva swabs during each flareup, label them and freeze them. Once all the various possible odors are collected, they could be thawed out, put in separate containers with a lid with holes on the top, set on the floor and have Dray smell the sufferer and asked to 'find another'. It would be interesting if Dray indicates that the there are any swabs that agree with the sufferer's odor perception, and if he identifies all or some of the swabs as having the same or different odors.
A Service Dog's olfactory system can answer so many questions. He could help us classify the various odor types to begin with.
DRAY AND VALLIE'S LAST SESSION BEFORE RECESS
MeBO Research
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