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Bowser's nose amazes me sometimes. I grew up with beagles, who actually were hunting dogs that went out in the woods with my dad...but nothing compares to Bowser's nose!
We have tried to train him (it's very hard when you don't have another hunting dog to run them with so they learn from dog to dog) so he's really only a tiny bit trained to track. (Not much tracking needed when we live in a townhouse and walk on a leash.)
But anyway, sometimes he is amazing. Once, we kind of split up on our walk (hubby walks super fast with his long legs) and I was behind with the mother-in-law and bowser and her dog....bowser tracked and told us which direction dada went. Nose was to the ground and he told us he went down this one street, instead of straight like i thought he would go...when we got back it was confirmed that's the direction he went!
Cute good boy!
Sometimes we ask him where a toy is, after dragging it across our (already filthy..so it's amazing to smell anything other than filth) floor...and he will track it!
What got me the other day was I dripped some ice cream (argh!) on a t-shirt. I washed it...then had to use the bleach pen on the stain to get it out (oh it's still faintly there..grr) and so i just decided to make it a wear around the house t-shirt. I put it on, and was on the floor playing with bow, and he just ran up to me and stuck his nose right on that spot, sniffing and gave it a lick cuz he smelled where that chocolate had been! LOL
Obviously still residue there, but it was pretty cute and he just did it from across the room.
I know when he's doing it too, because he gets this serious "working" look on his face, and the nose is either all the way up in the air, or down to the ground...ears up and tail on point. It's hilarious. He's usually always wagging and droopy ears.
THe annoying side: My dad has a pair of hunting pants and boots that have bobcat smell on them. Bowser with insane with fear over these....he will find the boots, and the pants (this was last year) at my parent's house and literally keep an eye on them the whole visit to make sure they stay where they are. It's a pair of camouflage overalls, and camo boots, so there's no mistaking that they are the culprits. but he has smell memory that is insane!
He's also very particular about who he meets. Once we went into a fish petstore and took Bow. The one guy that worked there was fine, he got some wags and was fine...the other guy came out from behind the counter...he was short and small, not threatening...but bowser got 4 feet away and got a wiff of his boots, and got terrified.
When finally I managed to coax him closer later he streached out his neck, sniffed the boot, and backed away. It was sad too cuz that guy really liked him and wanted to pet him, but whatever he had on his boots was just not cutting it!
It's funny, he does this with people sometimes. Sometimes it's pants, sometimes shoes. Usually a smell he doesn't recognize.
Anyway, it always makes me laugh how he sniffs the air, and puffs out his cheeks on the exhale to determine what's going on with his nose. He's just so reliant on it.
He's also one of the ones that smooshes his nose into the spot he's smelling *lol*
Here are some pics of the camping/hunting adventure. The brave basset and him getting as far away from my dad as possible in the trailer...he was like lightning crawling up behind my mom*lol*
We have tried to train him (it's very hard when you don't have another hunting dog to run them with so they learn from dog to dog) so he's really only a tiny bit trained to track. (Not much tracking needed when we live in a townhouse and walk on a leash.)
But anyway, sometimes he is amazing. Once, we kind of split up on our walk (hubby walks super fast with his long legs) and I was behind with the mother-in-law and bowser and her dog....bowser tracked and told us which direction dada went. Nose was to the ground and he told us he went down this one street, instead of straight like i thought he would go...when we got back it was confirmed that's the direction he went!
Cute good boy!
Sometimes we ask him where a toy is, after dragging it across our (already filthy..so it's amazing to smell anything other than filth) floor...and he will track it!
What got me the other day was I dripped some ice cream (argh!) on a t-shirt. I washed it...then had to use the bleach pen on the stain to get it out (oh it's still faintly there..grr) and so i just decided to make it a wear around the house t-shirt. I put it on, and was on the floor playing with bow, and he just ran up to me and stuck his nose right on that spot, sniffing and gave it a lick cuz he smelled where that chocolate had been! LOL
Obviously still residue there, but it was pretty cute and he just did it from across the room.
I know when he's doing it too, because he gets this serious "working" look on his face, and the nose is either all the way up in the air, or down to the ground...ears up and tail on point. It's hilarious. He's usually always wagging and droopy ears.
THe annoying side: My dad has a pair of hunting pants and boots that have bobcat smell on them. Bowser with insane with fear over these....he will find the boots, and the pants (this was last year) at my parent's house and literally keep an eye on them the whole visit to make sure they stay where they are. It's a pair of camouflage overalls, and camo boots, so there's no mistaking that they are the culprits. but he has smell memory that is insane!
He's also very particular about who he meets. Once we went into a fish petstore and took Bow. The one guy that worked there was fine, he got some wags and was fine...the other guy came out from behind the counter...he was short and small, not threatening...but bowser got 4 feet away and got a wiff of his boots, and got terrified.
When finally I managed to coax him closer later he streached out his neck, sniffed the boot, and backed away. It was sad too cuz that guy really liked him and wanted to pet him, but whatever he had on his boots was just not cutting it!
It's funny, he does this with people sometimes. Sometimes it's pants, sometimes shoes. Usually a smell he doesn't recognize.
Anyway, it always makes me laugh how he sniffs the air, and puffs out his cheeks on the exhale to determine what's going on with his nose. He's just so reliant on it.
He's also one of the ones that smooshes his nose into the spot he's smelling *lol*
Here are some pics of the camping/hunting adventure. The brave basset and him getting as far away from my dad as possible in the trailer...he was like lightning crawling up behind my mom*lol*
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