Dave Richards
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Registered: Apr 2015
Location: church hill tn
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Cold nosed
quote: Originally posted by shadinc
I don't understand how some think they know what a dog is smelling as opposed to him having the desire to work a cold track. I understand you saying you've seen dogs trail when others wouldn't but how do you know the other dog couldn't smell it. In controlled conditions scientist have concluded that all dogs have pretty much the same scenting ability. When you're breeding for cold trailing dogs how do you know you're getting more nose or more desire to cold trail? These hard running "hot nosed" competition dogs are looking for a coon and not a coon track.
Donald, I respect what you are saying, but I definitely disagree with anyone saying that all dogs can smell the same. My experience has proved this statement to be false. Real life situations are much more accurate that so called tests that all dogs can smell the same. The analogy of folks with 20/20 vision that can see different is true only in that game vision or seeing things others can not is based on experience, not ability. I agree that dogs have different experiences as well and that could make a difference in how they work a colder track. My analogy is different humans have different abilities regarding smell, eye sight, etc. and so do dogs. Their abilities factor in to enable them to do different things, without these abilities they simple can not do the things that those with these abilities can do. We see this all the time with humans in sports and other activities. Dogs are the same, some are smarter, some can SMELL better, etc. Dave
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