Dogs have jobs like people. If you use a cadaver sniffer to locate a pile of heroin you will watch the dog fail, and vice versa. This only demonstrates the ignorance of the handlers, not the dogs.
These mutts are specificilly trained, because the officers think they are just sniffing machines only shows the ignorance of the one holding the leash, not the mutt.
A cadaver dog will locate carrion within a mile of where you drop it. A coke sniffer will do the same with cocaine. Neither mutt is a substitute for the other.
My mutts can sniff out an oreo from the next county, but nothing more. Don't blame me, my mother "trained" them.
This only demonstrates the ignorance of the handlers, not the dogs.
My mutts can sniff out an oreo from the next county, but nothing more. Don't blame me, my mother "trained" them. Dead straight. They do what they are taught, building on instinct.
I had one that was deadly when it came to zeroing in on ripe quince, opening doors if necessary. It set my teeth on edge watching her chomp them.
To add variety to their diets, they also taught each other how to safely pick blackberries, since I was too slow passing them out on hikes.
Most of them would do a decent job of herding, and two or three could even find a stray sheep, if the occasion called for it.
Alas, repairing fences, retrieving downed birds, or pointing on gold nuggets in the creek was not in their repertoire...but I didn't blame them for those shortcomings.
