German Shepherds sniff out lung cancer

[SitUbuSit]

Pretty cool: The Newest Way to Detect Cancer? Let Fido Sniff it Out - - TIME Healthland

[1sttimeforgsd]

Cool and interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[lrodptl]

Cesar Millan was also involved with cancer sniffing dogs. One problem is turning the dogs off as they have alerted handlers to passersby on the street and in non working situations.

[LARHAGE]

Geesh, how horrible to be walking down the street and have a
Cancer sniffing dog run up to you and alert!! :0

[lrodptl]

Originally Posted by LARHAGE

Geesh, how horrible to be walking down the street and have a
Cancer sniffing dog run up to you and alert!! :0

The problem of course is that the handler would be the only one who knew what was going on but what was his ethical duty? "Hey,have you been diagnosed with cancer?" "No,well my dog has alerted me that you might have cancer and he is right 90% of the time." Ugh!

[GSDElsa]

Originally Posted by lrodptl

Cesar Millan was also involved with cancer sniffing dogs. One problem is turning the dogs off as they have alerted handlers to passersby on the street and in non working situations.

Uh...and I think that is the problem with having someone like Cesar Millan who has no working dog experience involved in this. A dog should not be executing a set of behaviors like that without instruction from the handler, IMO. Simple training issue.

[lrodptl]

Originally Posted by GSDElsa

Uh...and I think that is the problem with having someone like Cesar Millan who has no working dog experience involved in this. A dog should not be executing a set of behaviors like that without instruction from the handler, IMO. Simple training issue.

It was not Cesar Millan's dogs or program. He was simply an observer and supporter and in training himself. It was The Pine Street Foundation and Michael's Broffman and McCulloch. They used poodles who they considered perfectionists and they said it took many months to teach each dog to turn off.

http://pinestreetfoundation.org/2010...detect-cancer/

[GSDElsa]

Originally Posted by lrodptl

It was not Cesar Millan's dogs or program.

OK, then general training problem non-related to Cesar.

[Stosh]

I saw a show about dogs that could sniff emeralds in the mines- guess they're getting very rare and hard to find [the emeralds I mean].

[lrodptl]

Originally Posted by GSDElsa

OK, then general training problem non-related to Cesar.

Don't let your bias show. They used clicker training and not dominance training (where Cesar is modulating by the way).