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  • From: "David Skofstad" <dbs54neigh@earthlink.net>
  • To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [MSAR] air scent
  • Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:31:08 -0600

Una wrote:

"Dogs from scenting breeds tend to have olfactory tunnel vision ..."

This is true.

I am aware of some fox hounds in this area that were tracking a coyote.  The coyote stopped in the middle of the trail and ran back through the pack.  Not a dog lifted its head.  When the hounds got to the end of the scent trail, they were stumped.

 
 
David Skofstad
dbs54neigh@earthlink.net
 
"One thing thinketh the Horse, and another he that saddles him."
 
 




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