Re: Dufus 2
- From: Amy Dahl <amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:46:40 GMT
Larry Caldwell wrote:
There's a lesson there. If you want your dog to use its nose, give it
lots of time in the field to learn what those scents mean.
There is more. Next time I'll tell the story of Dufus' First Duck.
Thanks for the interesting and entertaining Dufus updates. As a
retriever person, I get a kick hearing the 'bird dog perspective' on
Lab behavior. He's a fortunate dog to have found you.
I'm hand-rearing a couple of Chesapeake puppies after all of their
littermates died and their dam got mastitis and pyo--all very ugly.
My point, though, is that from the beginning they have been dependent
on their scenting abilities. Before their eyes opened, they swung their
heads from side to side to figure out "which way to Mom." Now, at
3 1/2 weeks, their eyes and ears work, but it is their noses that tell
them what is food and where it is.
I, too, have worked with dogs that seemed to have no scenting ability
and taught them to use their noses. I'm just wondering how it gets
lost, since puppies presumably must use their scenting ability to
survive.
Amy Dahl
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