If you want to complicate your life get a bloodhound.

by kls 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  seeitallclearlynow

  I have had amazing things happen to me as a result of owning bloodhounds, we have tracked down every thing from babies to bank robbers over the last 16 years.

  Say, Deputy Dog, I think many would go along with me when I say that I would REALLY like to hear about some of those stories. What a fascinating and uplifting subject! Could you tell us a few??

  I know they're hard to live with (come to think about it, so is my wife) but I wouldn't want to be without either one (wife or bloodhound, that is). Although my last hound died a year ago. (I will be looking for a puppy soon).

  May God bless you and your hound.

  D Dog

  Isn't that the God's honest truth? LOL - in fact, it pretty much applies to kids and friends too, doesn't it? I used to seriously wonder why my kids and basically all normal people were so willing to put up with so much aggravation from their friends instead of just doing things on their own - but hey, they're worth it in the long run, aren't they? (With the possible exception being husbands... ha ha.)
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  Deputy Dog

  Well, you asked for it. Not all the searches ended with smiles, many (like murders, suicides and such) ended with tears. Most of them you probably wouldn't want to hear about anyway. But, the most heart warming for me was a search that happened early in our career (about 14 years ago). I received a call to search for a toddler that had been missing for over 2 hours. This was a little girl 19 months old, that learned to walk at 1 year and hike at 1&1/2. When we arrived on the scene there were literally hundreds of people looking for her with police dogs, horses, helicopters. After a good whiff of the baby's blanket It took about 10 minutes to trail the girl across a field of tall grass (about 3 feet high) to a woods on the other side (a total of about 1/2 mile), where we found that little hiker who had cried herself to sleep under a tree. I can't tell you how it made me feel to put her in her mothers arms. So after that, all the ruined gardens, shrubs, lawns, tools, walls with slobber, furniture, shoes, clothing and I don't know what else, It still seems worthwhile! It sure is fun to brag about your Dog D Dog
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  Special K

  Thanks for sharing that uplifting story Deputy Dog.

  In my area we have two blood hounds that do search rescue and all that kind of stuff.

  They work very closely with the RCMP, local police, and search and rescue.

  I went to a "working Dog" presentation and they brought these big guys in and told us all about them. How they can smell a scent so small and know which way to go... even across a stream. I was amazed.

  The couple that own and raise them had a bad experience many years ago in which a family member was lost in the woods and then was found too late. This prompted them to buy a blood hound and begin intense training in search and rescue and they have been doing it ever since.

  thanks for sharing your story... it was great

  and to the original topic starter. Sorry your dog dug up all your trees. Very annoying I bet.

  sincerely

  Special K (of the dog lover Kind)
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  kls

  So Deputy Dog, i guess i am in for many years of her bringing home every dead carcess she can find. Every day i wonder what dead critter she will bring me, lately she has found skin, bone and i have no idea what the last things were but she brings them to me like it is a prize and a present for me. As far a brains , i think her mom dropped her on her head cause she is loveable but not real bright.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Deputy Dog

  kls Something else you should know about your bloodhound is that they don't always see very well, you know how all that floppy skin hangs over their eyes. As human we believe what we see, because our eyesight is very acute. You've herd the expression "seeing is believing". Well, the bloodhound lives in the world of scent, in their little minds it is "smelling is believing" A game we would play when we did demos for kids and other groups. I would ask for a volunteer to blow up a balloon. Then I would take the balloon, and I would release the air from the balloon onto a sterile gauss pad that I would then seal into an air tight plastic bag. Next I would let the person stand anywhere in the middle of the group. I would then get my hound "Missy" out of the truck and open the bag and let her smell the pad, Missy would then find the person in the crowd and sit on their foot. We did this over 100 times and she never missed. I guess the lesson in all of this is, we can't begin to understand how much information they can get with there nose, because we get it with our eyes. One more war story. One day I was at a friends' house (who was a policeman in his town) training my dog, when he got a call about a church near town that was robbed of over $1,600.00 dollars. He thru us into the back of his truck and took us to the scene (don't you love the timing, "we just happen to be in the neighborhood") A witness at the scene (no not a JW) said that the man dropped something out of his back pocket as he fled on foot. It turned out to be a terry cloth hand towel, the perfect scent article. After a whiff of the towel we trailed to a wooded area (about 1/4 mile). Where un be known to me, the guy was hiding and counting the money. When he saw us coming, he took off all his clothes and his shoes I guess he thought that would slow us down. IT DIDN'T! When we caught the guy, all he had on was his underpants & and the money in his socks. He was so scared! He kept yelling "don't hurt me I'm an addict! I'm an addict!" It was hot (over 90) that day too, and with all the slobber, he must have thought that God sent the hound from hell to get him. I found out later that this was at least the 14th time he had done this at different churches. Can you tell I love to talk Dog Maybe I'll write a book some day D Dog
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  kls

  Deputy Dog, if you would pm me your e-mail adderss, i can't send pms. I am nice and need to complain about my dog, i will not stalk you . LOL and i am very funny
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  Deputy Dog

  kls

  1st rule of dog training "think positive"

  2nd rule brag about your dog!

  after a while you won't notice all these "little set backs"

  D Dog