DOGS – Did You Know That DOGS Can Be Trained to Find Food?

Dogs have been trained to be able to locate scent glands. These smell glands are found on the face, neck, underbelly, paws and head. The job of these smell glands is to ward off any bad things like snakes or other dangerous animals from approaching the person. Most of the time a dog’s nose will detect something on the ground or in the air without the person knowing it.

When the dog smells: something he will quickly start moving towards it with his nose. This will catch the snake’s attention and he will usually go away. DOGS can detect odors on human bodies at a distance of up to 30 feet. Their sense of smell is also 40 times better than humans. This means your dog could pick up on the scent much more quickly than you could.

This explains why many dogs are being used to sniff out money, drugs and other people!

• Many dogs like to search for their prey and protect their masters. Many DOGS like to hunt for their prey, like rabbits, raccoons, squirrels and even birds, while others may like to guard their masters from potential danger.
• DOGS has a very good sense of smell and an even better sense of sight. Because of the dogs superior sense of smell they are often used by law enforcement agencies to search for missing persons.
• Many dogs are now used in search and rescue operations. In search and rescue dogs, a dog will respond to a signal sent from a handler and go out into dangerous situations to find missing people.

You may have never thought: about your DOGS smelling so good, but they actually do. They have very sensitive olfactory organs and are unable to sense scents that humans can. This is the reason your dog may know how to smell things around you, but not know what those smells are. Your four-legged friends also have poor vision, but they have what is known as superior eyesight, which allows them to see things up close and in darker places, which is helpful when a rescue situation requires seeing in dark places.

Did you know dogs can be taught to find food? It is possible to train DOGS to find food or at least figure out what is in it. DOGS are able to differentiate between various types of odors and are trained to “hound” or “hunt” for their prey. This is a more intelligent type of hunting for some breeds, than calling a deer in the area and waiting for the deer to come into range, because your DOGS will be much quicker at finding the food than any deer in the area will.

DOGS have been trained: in the same manner as their domesticated cousins, to act as pets. They have been successfully used in domestic dog training programs and in the military. Trained DOGS can be taught to do many things, from sitting on commands, to being trained for hunting, police work, search and rescue, and anything else the military might need. You could hire DOGS to protect your home or to search for missing persons. In the military, DOGS have performed numerous duties, including; bomb detection, tracking down and rescuing missing U.S. troops, tracking down terrorists, and numerous other duties.

While DOGS are not as well-trained as dogs used in Search and Rescue or as search and dog teams in the civilian world, they can be used as companion animals to help those with disabilities.