Ooooh that smell

[RememberSchiff 3689]

Murrysville ,PA: Eagle scout candidate built a scent wall for the Western Pennsylvania Search and Rescue Development Center in Penn Hills.

“It’s a wall that has tubes that alternate in height, so the dogs have to go up and down to search,” said Rhea, a freshman at Franklin Regional Senior High School. “Some of the scents are a distraction, and the dogs are meant to find the scent their handler gave them.”

“It’s a wall that has tubes that alternate in height, so the dogs have to go up and down to search,” said Rhea, a freshman at Franklin Regional Senior High School. “Some of the scents are a distraction, and the dogs are meant to find the scent their handler gave them.”

“It’s a wall that has tubes that alternate in height, so the dogs have to go up and  down to search,” said Rhea, a freshman at Franklin Regional Senior High School. “Some of the scents are a distraction, and the dogs are meant to find the scent their handler gave them.”

The scent walls are 4 feet high and 8 feet wide, with PVC pipes that conceal a number of different scented objects. Prior to its construction, trainers used cardboard boxes or did outdoor training.

“The boxes would (retain) scents, and so they couldn’t easily re-use them,” said Rhea’s father Todd. “The other problem was it only taught the dogs to sniff at the ground.”

more info , photos, and  interview video

https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/murrysville-boy-scout-creates-scent-wall-for-search-and-rescue-dog-group/

Western PA  Search and Rescue  Development Center

https://www.wpsardc.org/

Edited April 24, 2020 by RememberSchiff

[qwazse 4351]

Success in spite of drawing the short straw of a 1st ASM @ WSJ!

His was the last ECoH I attended before lock-down.