Damn these dogs are impressive at doing their job.
I was watching Myth busters the other night and the did a re visit of Bloodhounds and how to beat them episode... I thought their testing methods were very sound.
They tried using a hunting suit and then a sealed suit so as to not to leave a scent.
Adam showered and used some personal cleaning products that were designed be used by hunters to remove the smell of their bodies.
None of this seemed to make any difference to the dog.
Even walking down a small river didn't seem to make any difference. That dog had no problems finding Adam.
The only thing that came close to beating the Bloodhound was having 5 guys lined up in a field.
They simply let the dog sniff a shirt and set him off to do his job. The dog went to the guy who owned the shirt first but was a bit vague with the indication so he went to the other 4 one by one.
You gotta give it to these dogs. With all of our technology we have nothing that even approaches their level of skill.
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So how would you evade a bloodhound?
What if you calmly walked away? Not running but walked so you didn't break a sweat and left virtually no trail fort the dog to follow???
Has anybody seen these dogs work first hand?
The movie Cool hand Luke has a classic bloodhound chase scene were Paul Newman used all sorts of methods to try and beat these dogs.
Crossing fences, spreading pepper on the trails etc. All of these methods were debunked by the first Mythbusters Bloodhound episode.
At the end of the scene Paul Newman's character had managed run one of the dogs to death.
But to actually achieve this in real life you would have to run many many miles and stay ahead of the dogs... Sounds almost impossible to me.
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Locally... I do support work for the local Air Port. They have a sniffer dog as part of their security team. I don't want to say what he's trained to find but I've seen him in action and he's something else.
They had over 100 suitcases lined up for him to sniff and it took him about 30 seconds to find a suit case that contained the substance he's trained to find.
When they opened the suit case the substance was wrapped and well hidden within.
Apparently this dog has a bounty on his head although the claim was made years ago and nothing has ever happened.
