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<blockquote data-quote="FlGunner" data-source="post: 1486870" data-attributes="member: 94240"><p>Interesting article but it's nothing really in my opinion that fully discredits scent control measures. I say that as someone who has for many years worked a dog in law enforcement. We used blood hounds and beagles for man tracking exclusively. A dog does not use one individual scent to locate a person. They however use all types of scent. Broken foilage, ground disturbances, whatever might be unique to that they're tracking. So yes, in a test on a hunter spraying their boots and clothing and hiding, our dogs would have found you 100% of the time regardless of the handler (unless the handler deliberately stopped them). We have laid tracks and let them age over 24 hrs and still been able to 100% confirm the dog was right and we made catch. A deer however, learns to associate things with danger and once that happens they'll key on it. That's why I believe some of scent control products are pure bs and some do help. There's no guarantee. But I don't think that someone can use the example of a dog finding someone and say the other side is all wrong. Because they only tell half of the story about what the dog is truely trailing on. It's not 100% odor of the person. I was in with our k-9 program for 6 straight years and can tell you there's more to finding someone than just they're personal scent. Whether it be in the woods, on asphalt, or on concrete. But none the less it was a good read... But I think it's a lil missis leading.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FlGunner, post: 1486870, member: 94240"] Interesting article but it's nothing really in my opinion that fully discredits scent control measures. I say that as someone who has for many years worked a dog in law enforcement. We used blood hounds and beagles for man tracking exclusively. A dog does not use one individual scent to locate a person. They however use all types of scent. Broken foilage, ground disturbances, whatever might be unique to that they're tracking. So yes, in a test on a hunter spraying their boots and clothing and hiding, our dogs would have found you 100% of the time regardless of the handler (unless the handler deliberately stopped them). We have laid tracks and let them age over 24 hrs and still been able to 100% confirm the dog was right and we made catch. A deer however, learns to associate things with danger and once that happens they'll key on it. That's why I believe some of scent control products are pure bs and some do help. There's no guarantee. But I don't think that someone can use the example of a dog finding someone and say the other side is all wrong. Because they only tell half of the story about what the dog is truely trailing on. It's not 100% odor of the person. I was in with our k-9 program for 6 straight years and can tell you there's more to finding someone than just they're personal scent. Whether it be in the woods, on asphalt, or on concrete. But none the less it was a good read... But I think it's a lil missis leading. [/QUOTE]
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