Nosework Thread
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This is something that Asha does occasionally, but especially with certain conditions. The main one being a recent heavy rain and a breeze. It must bring out smells that are newly released and you can see the wheels churning in her head, reading the all the news that's just been released.
We got caught in the rain today on our hike, we were soaking wet and cold. Half the sky was still blue, but I had to stop and video a few seconds of this. She had to stop to smell the wind several times once the rain passed. She slobbers freely when her brain is processing odors, plus she's soaking wet and muddy. I know what the action of this is regarding nose to brain, but I can't remember what it's called. Do any of you see your dogs do this "in the wild"? ((It's not anything they would do in scent work sports))
We got caught in the rain today on our hike, we were soaking wet and cold. Half the sky was still blue, but I had to stop and video a few seconds of this. She had to stop to smell the wind several times once the rain passed. She slobbers freely when her brain is processing odors, plus she's soaking wet and muddy. I know what the action of this is regarding nose to brain, but I can't remember what it's called. Do any of you see your dogs do this "in the wild"? ((It's not anything they would do in scent work sports))
I have actually noticed that myself, even though our sense of smell is a fraction of what a dogs is. I'm sure if you've had a lack of rain, Asha is smelling all sorts of things after the rain brought it out.
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Yes, Bonnie does this a lot, "reading the breeze"
and I'll stand and watch, and
ask "what is it?"...and look thst way...
to let her know I'm into it too.
This is something I do when we go hike - take an article that I keep in my pocket, so my scent only. I've previously taught Asha to down on articles found, which is a different alert than what we used for essential oil scent work trials. Yesterday when Asha was way ahead of me on the trail I tossed the leather article as far as I could without taking a step off the trail. Then I called her back to me and point her that direction and my command is Find the Article - so she knows what she's looking for. She heads out and gets the scent after just a few seconds, takes a hard right and finds it within another few seconds. This was too easy. Next time I'll try to toss it out on my way out and send her to hunt for it on the way back so it "cooks" for an hour.
That's a neat way to work her nose when she isn't looking for oils in competition! I am guessing the command you use for the article is different than when you have her look for oils?
Zastava's sister Dutchess was always a bit "handsy" responding to oils in competition so her owner turned to barn hunt so she can dig the find out. Barn hunt is neat and we would like to try it with them but Zastava never wanted to touch the oils so I would need to think about ways to train her to touch the rat but not touch the oil finds.
Zastava's sister Dutchess was always a bit "handsy" responding to oils in competition so her owner turned to barn hunt so she can dig the find out. Barn hunt is neat and we would like to try it with them but Zastava never wanted to touch the oils so I would need to think about ways to train her to touch the rat but not touch the oil finds.
Yes, I say "Find the article!" In scent work trials I say "sook!" and when we learned searching hidden people it was "search!"
I'm not sure but I think you don't want them to touch or disturb the tube the rat is in. I know they can't disturb it, not sure about how much touching is allowed. There's a thread here on Barn Hunt and a lot of basics on the sport. Asha is nuts over a rat/chipmunk/mouse in the wild, but was not interested in barn hunt at all. We went to an intro class and she indicated the tube, climbed the bales, tunneled, did all the things, but the rat smell did not excite her, I think because the rats are use to being sniffed and huffed at and they just stay still in their tube.
Also it was one more thing I couldn't practice at home so I couldn't get too excited about it.
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I love this. It shows a Doberman who has a job, does it well and is delighted with themselves! What a team!
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