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So Bob helped me big in figuring out a good way to mess around with teaching Annie diabetes detection with my son. Wipe off sweat when my kid is too high/too low with a sterile gauze pad and use that as a primary training aid. Diabetics sweat a lot--even my 3 y.o. kid looks like he's been in the desert if he's high at night and he's in blankets--so this strikes me as pretty easy to obtain. I'll take my time with it, in any case.
But in terms of isolating/handling scent...what are efficient ways of handling scent without contaminating it? Assume that Ive got a latex glove on and have swabbed my kid's neck (diabetics, at least my diabetic, sweat heavily here). How long with that "scent" last for dog detection work? Can I freeze it to make that last longer? Etc. Bob has already suggested some stuff on PM but I figured, what the hell, throw it up on the board because it's at least interesting to me.
Many thanks to Bob for getting me started on this. There are a couple of different things I will try with Annie relative to diabetes detection work but I need to get her handler-induced spazziness evened out first.
But in terms of isolating/handling scent...what are efficient ways of handling scent without contaminating it? Assume that Ive got a latex glove on and have swabbed my kid's neck (diabetics, at least my diabetic, sweat heavily here). How long with that "scent" last for dog detection work? Can I freeze it to make that last longer? Etc. Bob has already suggested some stuff on PM but I figured, what the hell, throw it up on the board because it's at least interesting to me.
Many thanks to Bob for getting me started on this. There are a couple of different things I will try with Annie relative to diabetes detection work but I need to get her handler-induced spazziness evened out first.