Saturday, June 27, 2009

Older Bloodhounds Track Two-Day Old Trail Almost Perfectly in Multiple Environments

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A professor and a member of the San Bernardino police department determined to test the tracking abilities of bloodhounds that had received ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Dogs Detect Scent of Cadavers Up to Two Months After Indirect Contact with Carpeting

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A German research team was asked by the Hamburg Police Department how long a dead body would have to have contact with a mattress or a car...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Hollywood Depictions Make Life Harder for Real Dogs

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A few blogs ago, Liz Stroter talked about one of the reasons that people do not adapt to dogs and give them up to shelters: the expectations...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Sociability of Nursing Home Residents Declines After Pet Visitations Cease

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For some years, my consulting practice has allowed me to live in Phoenix in the winter and spring and Stone Ridge, New York, in the summer a...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

How Many Footsteps Do Tracking Dogs Need to Determine Direction of a Scent?

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A man crosses a football field. Twenty minutes later a tracking dog is brought to the midpoint of the trail and commanded to TRACK. The dog...
Saturday, June 6, 2009

Seeing Eye Founder's Famous Saturday Evening Post Article Still Resonates

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The first formal service dog organization in the United States was The Seeing Eye, founded by, among others, Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Mor...

Scenting Skills Now Part of Genetic Research on Dogs

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We shed 30,000 to 40,000 skin flakes each minute. (Picture shows electroni microscope image of a desquamated skin flake, at least a thousan...