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I've helped with it in school if that counts. The dogs trained were medical dogs, trained to help point things out like certain cancers, certain mental conditions, etc. some of which people had no idea going in could be detected. At least one was blind due to being albino, he had to be separate because we had dogs being trained to detect blindness, but things worked out if the cues were distinct enough.
That's very interesting! Could you tell us more about this? Was this a specific college program or something? What do you mean by, "if the cues were distinct enough?"
Depending on what is being trained, it's normal in training to exaggeratingly mark (to the dog) what they're seeking out during training, so that the intended effect can be grounded. Think the potty training seats kids put on their toilets, but not exactly like that. It's a middle/high school thing, I've never been to college.
That is really cool: I wish my school had had something like that! Thank you for the info.
Thank you for sharing! That's really cool that you got to do that! Did you end up going into that field?
It's connected enough to my field of choice that I could probably be seen as having potential in such a job, but no, I did not go for anything which involved me preparing for that.