Smell in snakes

[Bushviper]

Try to get him to work with indigenous snakes too. Anacondas do give off a very strong smell but no other indigenous snakes smell like this.

If you are using Rinkhals, cobras and puff adders make sure they are in mesh wire cages inside another wire cage so the dog does not get bitten. Make sure the snake is not just tracking your smell either so walk all over the place and leave the snake in one place and continue walking up and down so that he does not cheat.

I hope this works out well. Please keep us posted.

[olivierwikus]

I do put the hots in a fine wire mes like cages, and diferent poeple takes them and hide them away, while to dog is inside and we do walk al over. Then we give him a bag thats full of sheddings to smel and of he goes. He does seem to find them faster after its rained compaired to when its dry, and today he found a Night adder aswel that we did not include.
Thankyou

[gartersnake]

Did he also just bark at the night adder?

[olivierwikus]

Did he also just bark at the night adder?

Yes he dit but he seemed a bit more scared of it than the rest, but i think the reason is that the Night adder was very agresive
Thankyou

[MrG]

A Dogs smell is amazing.

To get dogs to work they need some kind of reward. Either food(which is not recommended) or play(toy etc).

When recue dogs are selected they go for the puppie that has the highest play rate with toys. They are easier to train because of the reward factor.

I saw the Jack russel yesterday. He is a beauty and they are in general good in sniffing out snakes. They also kill them. But under supervision he should be fine.

Just start the reward thing asap otherwise he is going to do his own thing.

Sterkte

[Durban Keeper]

What's this Jack Russel's name? All the best, hope to hear some great success stories!

[olivierwikus]

Thankyou MrG. Yes finding something he likes as a treat seems to be a problem, but he's happy with special atention so far. Yes i know it's not going to keep him happy but we are working on that.
@ Durban Keeper He's name is Stompie. He was born with a small stump for a tail thats why the name
This is him sharing his food with one of the birds

[olivierwikus]

Sory the first atemp failed