iuse to teach dogs to avoid snakes... iuse live snakes when the dog is very young puppy. here is some relevents events that ive been part of: once afeamale mal of me mark an hole it the wall ive pot explosives inside earlier bu yet she mark far away from the hole with ajump up back from the hole... (she never done so before)
inside the hole ifound piaces of shad snake snake skin (slough) ididnt notice tham erarlier...

gamba one of our feamale scouting dogs walk with her handler at apatrol in an open space hilly area and sudnnly mark aspot afoot away from her like she whould do on humans (frozen and pointing with her nose) but insted of polling towerd the point she step back one step than keep on walking. the handler check the spot and found aviper under the rock she marked...

once we hade to search in acontainers full of snake skins that busted on port we search to find if there is explosives hide there two the dogs acts like it where alives snakes and just after we took some time to show tham they could tuch tham and we hide dop under some of theme they searched between tham well...


i leave for you guys to get to the conclosiuns for your self...
ido request that if anybody else has another story likes thos or the opissent please post tham for giving "more meat to my tatics"
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I’m north of San Diego in a canyon area and the neighbors and I routinely get rattlers every year. The 5-yr-old boy across the street was bitten on the thumb when he reached into the outdoor toy box (not a good choice for storage!) I’ve had a 6-footer in the back yard and, last year, a baby. Both times, my GSDs alerted to them, but I don’t know if they would have continued to stay clear of them if I hadn’t been around.

I heard about this guy - http://www.patrickcallaghan.com - and went for the training last spring. I don’t know how effective it is, but for $65, figured it’s a lot cheaper than the vet bill for bite treatment. He trains for sight, smell and sound and uses an e-collar. He suggests a yearly “refresher” course. His wife told me (as his site points out) that dogs don’t usually associate the delayed pain and discomfort with the snake bite, so they don’t learn any avoidance from being bitten. They’ve had dogs come for the initial training session that had been bitten more than once.