By Liz Norris, Master Trainer
AKC-CGC Instructor and Therapy Evaluator
Pawsibilities Unleashed
Pet Therapy of Kentucky, Inc.
Dogs can filter scent under water.
First of all, dogs "scent" like we "see". They walk into a room and smell everything...we walk in and "see" everything. They do not acclimate to scent....instead they put in the background (like we do background noise) the scents they are not focused on at the present time or scents they are not being, "paid" to focus on:)
Dogs can filter scent under water. They can not breath water, or intake water, but the Jacobson Organ in their nose area allows them to filter scent under water and tell which rock you threw into the pond is yours and which are not. Just a little FYI to let you see how good they are at the job...
Throw away choke chains, prongs, slip collars or shock collars. A service dog must trust you and work from trust. Instead of correcting the dog all the time and using, "No" over and over, you encourage the dog to work through a problem and problems solve....in other words if it goes to the wrong scent vial, then you say, "keep working"...not No, jerk it off its feet, etc. You let it know it needs to keep going until it hears the Click of the clicker and then it gets a Treat. A service dog can not take the Public Access Test in those devices either...
Liz
Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM
MeBO Research
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