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Fantastic story Herb

Lily really has made the grade. Lots of hard work, I'll bet.

Thanks for sharing.

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Great work Herb and Lilly. That's both physically and mentally hard tasks to accomplish. Lots of hours to get to that point.

Charlie


Indeed it has been hard work. We have spent hundreds of hours in training and that's aside from the team and seminar training we do. But it's really cool when you see the dog starting to "get it" and doing things consistently right.

The work is certainly physical but you're right, it's a big mental thing too. Lilly will come home from training and just plop on the floor from mental exhaustion. It's hard work working that nose and cataloging and identifying the one specific odor she's looking for among the thousands of odors in the fields and places we search. And many times it's just a faded glimpse of the scent of human decomp..... and she has to work mentally to figure it out. Watching her do that is amazing and primal.

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