Labs as scent dogs

[wickit]

Can labs make good scent dogs. We only have room for one more dog already have a akita golden lab cross and a heniz 57. We would like to get a puppy for our daughter to grow with seening that the other dogs are 9 and 7 years old. I would like a hound but I think that a chocolate lab would be better with kids. So can a lad be trained to track by scent or should I just train it for retriving. Any good chocolate lab breeder in B.C or any ones I should stay away from.

[Dirty]

They use labs for drug, currency, and bomb detection so I guess you may be able to use them for scent training . Training for retrieving sounds like a good idea too. Why not train it for both, you could get it to sniff out grow-ops and then go retrieve it for you .

[rick stewart]

i now guys up north that swear that there lab will out produce there hounds when it comes to running cats as of hounds around kids my daughter is 2 she pulls on my hounds ears ,jumps on her and rides her my hound just gets up and walks away some times dragging her behind.

[Fisher-Dude]

Any dog could be trained as a scent dog. Labs have great noses and would be a MUCH better choice for a family pet than a hyper cougar hound. My friend is a dog trainer, and her WP Griffon cross from the SPCA can find you instantly no matter where you hide. In a field trial tracking competition she did stray off the scent path though...but it was to pick up a lost wallet in the long grass that had a roach and rolling papers in it!

My wolfhound cross has been given some scent training, and he's great at following and retrieving game. I say go for the temperament and intelligence first and train them to do what you want.

[Bow Walker]

Not to hi-jack the thread...............but it does have a bit to do with scent.

Why do dogs roll in the stinkiest, rottenest, foulest stuff they can find?

I've had a couple of family pet type dogs and both of them go for the ugliest stuff to roll in that they can find. One rolled in a dead salmon on the banks of a river one time.

Talk about a smell !!...........and I was hung over at the time. Not a pleasant chore - giving her a bath.

Pukie-la-barf!!

[wickit]

I live on a farm and have cattle guess what my dogs like to roll in.

[Bow Walker]

Chicken shit?

[Will]

I live on a farm and have cattle guess what my dogs like to roll in.

My buddies Dog not only rolls in it but eats it too.......so much that it then barfs it up...Yummy !

If you drip some smoked oyster oil on the floor from a can my Lab will roll around and rub Her face all over it......weird

But she doesn't eat Poop so I can live with the smoked oyster fetish

[Bow Walker]

I take my 1 yr old pup(?) up Mt. Doug (here in Vict.) for a hike just about every day, the trails are also used by horseback riders.

Yup - the pup likes to chew on the fresh (or not so fresh) horse biscuits. I didn't get to her in time on one trip and she spewed her drinking water (it's a tough climb) and her treats and the horse cookies all over my back seat on the way home. Talk about a mess.

Another time she found some sort of excrement in the bush surrounding the archery range and rolled all through it. I couldn't see her at the time. All the way home (about a 20 min. ride) I had the windows down - didn't make a whole heckova lot of difference. Whew! What a stink. I had to bath her (in the bathtub) as soon as we got home. Good thing I wasn't hungover or anything.

[Fisher-Dude]

My wolfhound ate some horse crap once, got a bug, and was really sick for a few days (vet = $$$ ).

So we did some training with the pinch collar. I let him wander over to where there was a pile of steamy delights, then corrected him sharply with the pinch collar and "NO!". We kept doing it...fortunately he is a highly intelligent dog, and responded to the training really well and quickly.

Now when we are out walking and there are some chewy morsels on the road, he looks at them, then at me, and walks on by. Try it with your dogs...firm and consistent...they will learn.

PS - Will, what are you doin eating all those oysters?