Makes you feel ashamed the way *some* keep them

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Watching a programme about dogs and it was showing a lab and springer and a little X breed detecting cancers by scenting pots of urine, there was about 10 pots and they where taught to lie down beside the pot from the sample of a cancer patient.

Also a shepherd detecting when a young boy was about to take a seizure, or when his blood sugars where low, and alerted his parents.

Makes me feel rahter ashamed dogs are rotting in pounds and being kept in a life of misery when they are so capable of saving our lives.

Obs I knew they where capable of the above and much much more, we really dont give them the respect they deserve.
 
Spudlet said:
I think search and rescue dogs are amazing, and I still want to train Henry to be one:)
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Yep, another amazing talent, along with bomb scenting.

It also mentioned people who fled durig the tsunami when they became warey of the stray dogs in the streets reaction before it hit and the fact they where very anxious and departing the area (which they (villagers) had never witnessed before)
 
Why do you feel ashamed? You don't treat your dogs badly-you're the one getting them re-homed properly!

It's like people who don't ride their horse: does the horse care as long as it's well looked after?
 
I think I emailed you Cayla about the night I borrowed my friend's little girl and tried air-scenting for the first time after reading about it in a book - he had never, ever done it before (and I got a right chewing from my tracking trainer about it for 'confusing' him :p) but he found her, every single time, her doubling back on herself, making false trails, time lapses, etc. He amazed me that night. Just shows you what canny animals they are.
 
cinammontoast said:
Why do you feel ashamed? You don't treat your dogs badly-you're the one getting them re-homed properly!

It's like people who don't ride their horse: does the horse care as long as it's well looked after?
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Not me as such, but the way these dogs who are capable of so much more are rottig away in pounds or being misunderstood in some household for simply wanting to do what they where intended for, and they are capable of so much more but held back by human ignorance.

Im not sayig everyone with a breed of some sort should rush out and get them scenting for cancer or detecting bombs, just be allowed to fulfill a purpose especially if they are so misunderstood as oly a pet let alone their proper purpose.
 
CaveCanem said:
I think I emailed you Cayla about the night I borrowed my friend's little girl and tried air-scenting for the first time after reading about it in a book - he had never, ever done it before (and I got a right chewing from my tracking trainer about it for 'confusing' him :p) but he found her, every single time, her doubling back on herself, making false trails, time lapses, etc. He amazed me that night. Just shows you what canny animals they are.
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Yep I think you did.

The programme actually said that shepherds are the most versatile of scenters, and most efficient in human based chemical scents.
 
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