The Daily Times reports that some service dogs are being trained to use cash machines. They can insert and remove the bank card and retrieve the cash. The person with the disability still has to enter in their own pin number.
Dogs Can Use ATMs!
March 5th, 2007 § 0
Dogs Can Find Deer Antlers
March 5th, 2007 § 0
Roger Sigler is teaching dogs how to find shed deer antlers when hiking in the wilderness. Many people actively look for deer antlers as collectible items – now you can have your dog trained to look for them too. Roger says retreivers learn the easiest. Antlers smell different than deer so dogs trained to find antlers will not end up chasing deer all over the mountain!
Photo by paul+photos=moody.
Humans Can Track a Scent Like Dogs Can
December 18th, 2006 § 0
Ever wondered how a dog can follow a scent that is invisible to humans? Well, put your nose to the ground and you just might be able to follow it to. These undergraduate researches discovered that they could – although not as well as dogs can. Humans Can Track Like Dogs; No Word on Tail-Chasing – New York Times.