Have ever been to an airport? Have you ever seen a dog there? Well these dogs aren’t at the airport to get ready to have a sweat vacation with their family. These dogs are ready sniff. Bloodhounds are powerful and just keep sniffing until they find what they are looking for. That is why people use these dogs at airports! The track down stuff in bags that are not allowed. They help people all the time. One Bloodhound named Nick Carter help sniff out and trach over 600 criminals! Bloodhounds have found trails gone cold for 100 hours or 12 days! They have over 230 million olfactory receptor cells! If you don’t know what that means, (we didn’t either at first) here are some easier words for it. It helps the smell that they are smelling be a more powerful smell so it is easier to track. As much as all dogs have great smelling, the Bloodhounds beat us by a few sniffs.
The scent particles get trapped in folds of their crazy loose and wrinkly skin which allows them to carry around clues and smells with them as they hunt. Pretty cool! Bloodhounds usually like to dig but some don’t really care about the digging processes, but it is pretty hard to not have a puppy who doesn’t like to dig. Okay, well thank you for reading this long, long blog! –