Last week I was lucky enough to attend the National Police Bloodhound Assoc training. Police bloodhounds teams from all over the country attended. (It was located in western NY). There were sixty police bloodhound teams - everywhere you looked there was a bloodhound 
I brought Dawn, the female, who is only six months old. She was the youngest dog there and I was the newest handler there. We were very fortunate to attend and get such great training so early in our dog handling career. It makes sure we start off on the right foot
Dawn did really great. She has a super high drive so she is extremely eager to go trail. At one point she saw one of the older dogs go do a trail. When she saw the baseball hat they used as the scent article she got super excited and desperately started pulling to start trailing. I let her and she followed a quick 100yd trail to a hiding kid. Her best trail was last night though on a training trail. There was a heavy wind and deep grass and the runners scent was scattered all over the grass. She really had to work the trail, circling back, keeping on it. Plus it was longer. Probably a half mile. She is going to be a great tracking dog!
We heard from the handler of a bloodhound who identified a man who murdered, beat and raped two old women. Her dog was able to identify the murderer from an envelope he opened in the first womans house six weeks before. In other words - the bloodhound was able to scent someone six weeks after they just touched an envelope. It is insane what these dogs can do. You can take a scent object, have 12 people rub the object to get their scent on it, then introduce the dogs to these people. The dog will rule those 12 out and then follow the scent of the one person who is not there. Insane!
Shout out to The Killers for having integrity and making music with substance.
I brought Dawn, the female, who is only six months old. She was the youngest dog there and I was the newest handler there. We were very fortunate to attend and get such great training so early in our dog handling career. It makes sure we start off on the right foot
Dawn did really great. She has a super high drive so she is extremely eager to go trail. At one point she saw one of the older dogs go do a trail. When she saw the baseball hat they used as the scent article she got super excited and desperately started pulling to start trailing. I let her and she followed a quick 100yd trail to a hiding kid. Her best trail was last night though on a training trail. There was a heavy wind and deep grass and the runners scent was scattered all over the grass. She really had to work the trail, circling back, keeping on it. Plus it was longer. Probably a half mile. She is going to be a great tracking dog!
We heard from the handler of a bloodhound who identified a man who murdered, beat and raped two old women. Her dog was able to identify the murderer from an envelope he opened in the first womans house six weeks before. In other words - the bloodhound was able to scent someone six weeks after they just touched an envelope. It is insane what these dogs can do. You can take a scent object, have 12 people rub the object to get their scent on it, then introduce the dogs to these people. The dog will rule those 12 out and then follow the scent of the one person who is not there. Insane!
Shout out to The Killers for having integrity and making music with substance.
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osaka:
thank you
rexall:
That sounds like a fun weekend. Smart freaking animals. It's amazing.