Västerås nosework & specialsökträning

03/09/2024

Vad ska de övas på idag?

21/03/2024

Idag var de en privatträning. Fick prova söka i miljöer. Vilket gick jättebra. Var nyfiken och utforskade massor i miljön. Och alla gömmor hittades med.

20/07/2023

Fördelen med en källare som är under renovering. Öppna ytor för behållarsök

04/05/2023

Idag lite lätt träning med svea. Inför helgens tävling.

15/04/2023

Egen träning.
Nose work träning på Edströmska 16/4 -23.

Om några har tråkigt i morgon söndag, så ska jag vara på edströmska och träna lite.
Kan och vill man så är man välkommen.
Man välj själv på vad man vill träna. Dock går de ej att träning på inomhussök.

Vi träffas utanför grinden strax före 13:00 i morgon söndag.

Anders P

17/12/2022

27/10/2022

SNWK Tävling

20/08/2022

Ever noticed those slits at the sides of a dog's nose? Why do dogs have them?

Once again, nature proves her elegance in the design of our dogs. When we humans inhale and exhale, air comes in the same way it goes out. Any smells that come in through our mouths are forced out as we exhale, if we exhale out our mouths.

When a dog exhales through his nose, however, the exhaled air is released through those slits and off to the side so that nice, smelly air going into the dog's nostrils doesn't get diluted with the outgoing air. Put another way, the slits allow the dog to avoid smelling what he just exhaled.

The slits help the dog hold scent particles in the nostrils even as exhaled air passing out the slits creates a swirling air turbulence allowing interesting odors to be inhaled directly into the centre of each nostril. Since dogs breathe faster when trying to sniff a certain smell, they widen their nostrils to pull in more air which makes it possible for a dog searching for smells to have a steady stream of air coming in for up to 40 seconds, maybe even longer.

The slits also allow dogs to wiggle each nostril independently which gives them the ability to know which nostril a smell entered. This is how a dog can pinpoint where a smell is coming from, and why a dog searching for smells on the ground will weave back and forth as he follows a trail.

We all know the superb smelling abilities of dogs, but let's use an analogy between scent and sight to really put it into perspective: If our eyes were our nose, what we as humans can see at a third of a mile, our dog can see more than 3,000 miles away and still see as well.

Just wow.