Dogs can smell.

-  1676  -  Dogs can Smell.
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- We are having a drought in California, so, I had to train the dog to clean the dishes.  It wasn’t hard.
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-  Holly and Molly both amaze me with their sense of smell.  We'll be walking a single track and Holly would pull me off the trail 20 to 30 yards and sure enough there was a half eaten deer carcass.
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-.  Molly will start digging the ground, sure enough, at the bottom of the hole is a squirrel tunnel.
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-.  Of course, my walks take longer because they both had their noses to the ground.  And, often it took several minutes waiting while we collected all the information that was around there.  I like it when Molly will be on a trail, then, stop and sit straight up, searching the horizon for visual evidence which she knew just passed that ground.
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-.  Dogs are amazing.  Bloodhounds find escaped felons and missing children.
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-.  Golden Retrievers find squirrels and birds that have fallen into the bush.  I can throw a tennis ball to the far corners of our backyard, Molly will zig -zag  back and forth with persistence until she finds it and proudly brings it back.
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-.  Poodles will find truffles buried in the ground.
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-.  Dogs are trained to find drugs in airports and school lockers.
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-.  Dogs have been trained to detect insects and diseases in plants in luggage or foodstuff coming through customs.  They can even find invasive weeds in open fields.
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-.  Dogs are used to detect termites, even bedbugs in the big city hotels.
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-.  Dogs can detect mold in homes or even in vineyards where wineries are at risk of losing a good harvest.
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-.  Dogs detect explosives.
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-.  Dogs are even used to tell if cows are in heat.  Bulls can too, but, in this case the need is good timing for “artificial” insemination.
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-.  Dogs have even been known to detect cancer.  Often better than today's lab tests a Labrador Retriever can detect the malignancy sooner.
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-.  Dogs have even been used to detect mercury and potentially pirated DVDs.
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-.  You all know the shell game.  Try putting a treat under one of three cups.  Moving the cups around as fast as you like.  Then train the dog to always tip over the right one.  Fun is a happy dog.  You have a Happy Easter.  Take your dog on an Easter egg hunt but don't let her eat the chocolate.   Chocolate is not good for dogs.
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