What do you guys think of the school of thought on "once a puppy has been imprinted to the scent of mold (for example), they cannot live in a home with mold"
I wanted to see what experience in this field says, and I know this forum is the place to go!!!
This is mostly for puppy imprinting....like starting a puppy young on any scent......marijuana, etc.
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In detection, there is: Point of Saturation. Saturation means, the olfactory system is overloaded and the dog can not detect a weaker odor from a stronger odor. Being unable to detect a difference in strengths of odor makes it nearly impossible for a dog to locate source. There is also odor threshold in detection. one threshold is the minimum amount of odor necessary for the dot to detect the presence of an odor. If that particular threshold is the ambiant for the dog, a higher threshold would be needed for the dog to detect odor. Does that make sense? I teach this to all detector dog handlers so it makes sense to me. ha ha.
A question completely off scent detection however; wouldn't living in a home with mold be unhealthy for both the dog and handler/owner etc. Some molds can have particularly nasty effects on the human respitory system.
DFrost
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