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Isn't this amazing?
I just read an incredible book "Inside of A Dog" and learned so much about the umwelt (subjective world) of dogs. A great read for dog lovers.
Mary Beth
Gluten Detecting Dog
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Gluten Detecting Dog
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Isn't this amazing?
I just read an incredible book "Inside of A Dog" and learned so much about the umwelt (subjective world) of dogs. A great read for dog lovers.
Mary Beth
Isn't this amazing?
I just read an incredible book "Inside of A Dog" and learned so much about the umwelt (subjective world) of dogs. A great read for dog lovers.
Mary Beth
"If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles." - Dr. Wayne Dyer
Mary Beth!
It is uncanny how similar our interests are! Maybe we are long-lost twins - LOL! I have been reading about these kind of talents that dogs have. I saw a study where they are training dogs to detect (smell) bladder cancer in humans. And of course, they have been known to warn owners of impending heart attacks, seizures, etc. I find it mind-boggling that a dog's nose can detect a few PARTS PER TRILLION!!!!! (This is not a misprint - it has been documented).
I had to laugh about the way the article referred to the training program in Slovenia to teach dogs to detect gluten - like it is just a normal, everyday fact and everyone knows about it. Fascinating! And talk about gluten sensitivity - the poor owner can be sick for weeks from a minute trace of gluten.
Thanks so much for sharing, and I'm off to amazon to order that book.
Love,
Polly
It is uncanny how similar our interests are! Maybe we are long-lost twins - LOL! I have been reading about these kind of talents that dogs have. I saw a study where they are training dogs to detect (smell) bladder cancer in humans. And of course, they have been known to warn owners of impending heart attacks, seizures, etc. I find it mind-boggling that a dog's nose can detect a few PARTS PER TRILLION!!!!! (This is not a misprint - it has been documented).
I had to laugh about the way the article referred to the training program in Slovenia to teach dogs to detect gluten - like it is just a normal, everyday fact and everyone knows about it. Fascinating! And talk about gluten sensitivity - the poor owner can be sick for weeks from a minute trace of gluten.
Thanks so much for sharing, and I'm off to amazon to order that book.
Love,
Polly
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
Polly,
I have also heard about dogs being able to detect low blood sugar in diabteics.
The book has really opened my eyes about dogs special abilities and how they communicate. I look at Petey and Missie completely differently (less anthropomorphizing and more dog umwelt). I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did!
Love,
Mary Beth
I have also heard about dogs being able to detect low blood sugar in diabteics.
The book has really opened my eyes about dogs special abilities and how they communicate. I look at Petey and Missie completely differently (less anthropomorphizing and more dog umwelt). I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did!
Love,
Mary Beth
"If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles." - Dr. Wayne Dyer
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Mary Beth that is a great article and it is absolutely amazing what these dogs can do and how loyal they are.
Kari Nurse Nestle is doing great, we are in the middle of a blizzard today and she LOVES the snow. We went out this morning to start the generator in the barn (powers out again) and she just runs around like a little kid either catching snow flakes on her tongue or 'tunneling' through the snow with her nose for a few feet then poking her snow covered head up. Shes doing quite well and as always spoiled rotten...
Now maybe training her to be a gluten detecting dog... that's a thought
--Joe
Kari Nurse Nestle is doing great, we are in the middle of a blizzard today and she LOVES the snow. We went out this morning to start the generator in the barn (powers out again) and she just runs around like a little kid either catching snow flakes on her tongue or 'tunneling' through the snow with her nose for a few feet then poking her snow covered head up. Shes doing quite well and as always spoiled rotten...
Now maybe training her to be a gluten detecting dog... that's a thought
--Joe
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During the 1990’s there was a dog in Florida that was trained to, and became very adept at, detecting melanoma skin lesions. And in fact, during his career in melanoma detection he had ID’d positive on a melanoma lesion that a human pathologist had missed!
See: http://www.standardschnauzer.org/ On the left side of the screen Select: Helper, and then on that page scroll down to cancer sniffing and bomb detection.
This was Ch. & OTCh Tailgates George VonPickel, UDX
George was owned, trained, handled and loved by a fellow who had retired from a long career training scout dogs in the military. (IOW, he was a highly experienced dog trainer).
Upon returning to civilian life he had joined the Tallahassee, FL P.D. and then pursued getting a dog with the aim of having a dog that would be able to be trained as his aide/side-kick for police work. He was accustomed to working with larger dogs such as German Shepards etc. in the military, but he wanted a somewhat smaller dog, hence this dog was chosen.
For some specific reasons this particular dog had some limitations for general police work, but (as is obvious by his titles there) he had been fully obedience trained -- which meant that he had learned and mastered scent discrimination skills. So scent discrimination work, and its various applications, was the direction that was to be pursued with George.
AND WHOW – did he ever achieve. He was used in explosives detection work throughout the SE USA, saw service in sweep detection work and general guard duties for events with dignitaries such as the President of the US, -- as well as various and sundry other scent oriented duties and challenges.
His unique claim to fame came though in his seemingly uncanny ability, and highly reliable skills, in detecting and differentiating melanoma from other skin lesions.
George has of course, long ago now, crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
Since training numbers of dogs to work in dermatology to aide in melanoma detection is an unreasonable aim --- this endeavor was taken into the labs at the University with the aim of attempting to analyse, and discover, exactly what it is in this kind of abnormal tissue growth that the dog could accurately sort out and identify as this specific neoplasm.
However to date – with all the sophisticated technology and equipment in the mass spectrometry rhelm of laboratory exploration, researchers have not been able to find the specific chemical that yields the specific scent marker for this type cancerous growth.
Human brain power, and ingenuity – and with all manner of sophisticated equipment, has not been able to identify what the dogs olfactory organ can be trained to recognize.
George was a canine pioneer in cancer scent detection work. And to this day, --- the dogs nose still reigns supreme. The canine olfactory systems great potential goes largely untapped today.
Gayle
See: http://www.standardschnauzer.org/ On the left side of the screen Select: Helper, and then on that page scroll down to cancer sniffing and bomb detection.
This was Ch. & OTCh Tailgates George VonPickel, UDX
George was owned, trained, handled and loved by a fellow who had retired from a long career training scout dogs in the military. (IOW, he was a highly experienced dog trainer).
Upon returning to civilian life he had joined the Tallahassee, FL P.D. and then pursued getting a dog with the aim of having a dog that would be able to be trained as his aide/side-kick for police work. He was accustomed to working with larger dogs such as German Shepards etc. in the military, but he wanted a somewhat smaller dog, hence this dog was chosen.
For some specific reasons this particular dog had some limitations for general police work, but (as is obvious by his titles there) he had been fully obedience trained -- which meant that he had learned and mastered scent discrimination skills. So scent discrimination work, and its various applications, was the direction that was to be pursued with George.
AND WHOW – did he ever achieve. He was used in explosives detection work throughout the SE USA, saw service in sweep detection work and general guard duties for events with dignitaries such as the President of the US, -- as well as various and sundry other scent oriented duties and challenges.
His unique claim to fame came though in his seemingly uncanny ability, and highly reliable skills, in detecting and differentiating melanoma from other skin lesions.
George has of course, long ago now, crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
Since training numbers of dogs to work in dermatology to aide in melanoma detection is an unreasonable aim --- this endeavor was taken into the labs at the University with the aim of attempting to analyse, and discover, exactly what it is in this kind of abnormal tissue growth that the dog could accurately sort out and identify as this specific neoplasm.
However to date – with all the sophisticated technology and equipment in the mass spectrometry rhelm of laboratory exploration, researchers have not been able to find the specific chemical that yields the specific scent marker for this type cancerous growth.
Human brain power, and ingenuity – and with all manner of sophisticated equipment, has not been able to identify what the dogs olfactory organ can be trained to recognize.
George was a canine pioneer in cancer scent detection work. And to this day, --- the dogs nose still reigns supreme. The canine olfactory systems great potential goes largely untapped today.
Gayle
My shepherd can detect gluten, and then proceeds to eat it :)
William has blown his entire undercoat (must think it is summer) but seems to be doing better lately. He loves to lay out in the snow. I think he thinks he is a husky.
I will have to post a pic of William playing in the snow. My only problem with taking photos at home is that I take so many doing the week, it seems like work to drag out my cameras just for fun. When William was younger, I seriously considered having him trained as an arson and accelerant detection dog. It would be fun to work with him, and have him fly with me at my side. But that kind of work is so hard on a dog's nose. Hell, it's hard on mine. I didn't want to put him through that though search and rescue is in his breeding.
Had another fatality this this week to investigate. A 16 year old young man. Very sad.
Rich
William has blown his entire undercoat (must think it is summer) but seems to be doing better lately. He loves to lay out in the snow. I think he thinks he is a husky.
I will have to post a pic of William playing in the snow. My only problem with taking photos at home is that I take so many doing the week, it seems like work to drag out my cameras just for fun. When William was younger, I seriously considered having him trained as an arson and accelerant detection dog. It would be fun to work with him, and have him fly with me at my side. But that kind of work is so hard on a dog's nose. Hell, it's hard on mine. I didn't want to put him through that though search and rescue is in his breeding.
Had another fatality this this week to investigate. A 16 year old young man. Very sad.
Rich
"It's not what I believe. It's what I can prove." - A Few Good Men
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Wow! You really have him well trained. Most of those gluten-detecting dogs are only capable of locating it - William promptly renders it safe, by destroying it.Rich wrote:My shepherd can detect gluten, and then proceeds to eat it :)
I have a cat trained to do that, too, but the problem is, a cat can't eat nearly as much as a big dog.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Linda and Tex,
The one thing I have learned about my shepherd, with respect to eating, is that I don't think I could ever fill him up :) He is such a food beggar. But admittedly, my wife has spoiled him severely.
That is funny Tex... a dog that destroys the gluten!!! Though I am pretty sure he would prefer to destroy meat :)
LOL
Rich
The one thing I have learned about my shepherd, with respect to eating, is that I don't think I could ever fill him up :) He is such a food beggar. But admittedly, my wife has spoiled him severely.
That is funny Tex... a dog that destroys the gluten!!! Though I am pretty sure he would prefer to destroy meat :)
LOL
Rich
"It's not what I believe. It's what I can prove." - A Few Good Men