@kdfrawg Bon appétit.
@hybotics Yes. Not necessarily an everyday thing, but lovely once in a while.
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@kdfrawg Not as good as most dogs! Oddly, on one of the days we did, there was a dog that wasn’t remotely interested in scentwork, even when there was cheese involved. Most dogs don’t regard sniffing out bits of cheese as boring.
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@hybotics This isn’t exactly tracking a scent — he’s looking for a scented object rather than following a trail. We can’t really teach a dog about how to smell. We start by getting him interested in whatever he’s going to look for, and doing very simple games, then as he gets better at reading the “scent picture” you can make it harder. We’ve done three workshops on it. They’re designed by a woman who used to work for the Customs & Excise people, with dogs sniffing for drugs.
On the course, they start by getting you to play with your dog with a toy, to see which dogs will be interested in looking for a toy. The ones who aren’t search for cheese instead.
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