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Mushroom sniffing pets
#18959253 - 10/10/13 12:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Do any of you have an animal companion you take hunting with you? If so do they ever spot out finds for you? My cat seems to have taken a liking to hen of the woods, she runs up and has to sniff and see whats going on. Maybe I can get her to sniff them out for me? I read about truffle hunting pigs, dogs, bears, and manbearpigs so maybe my kitty would party?
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Re: Mushroom sniffing pets [Re: lsms]
#18959467 - 10/10/13 01:42 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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She would actually just stalk chipmunks the entire time now that I think about it.
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Re: Mushroom sniffing pets [Re: lsms]
#18959726 - 10/10/13 02:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I used to have a beagle that would find cubes for me, but she died a while ago. More recently I had a Husky/Aussie Shepperd mix that would find money. That was freakin' awesome. We'd be walking down the sidewalk and he'd jump up on my leg and drop whatever bill he'd found in my hand. picked up a couple $100's this way.
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That's awesome! Would your beagle bark at cubes or something or just hang out by them?
Would you give them treats when they would find a patch or some money?
I wish I had a cool pet, mines just lazy and fat.
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Re: Mushroom sniffing pets [Re: lsms]
#18960027 - 10/10/13 03:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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My Cat Loves to be with her people outdoors... shes loves when we mushroom hunt...
She runs up and sniffs out mushrooms, but I would love to teach her certain types. lol
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Fkn cats.
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rev0kadavur said: My Cat Loves to be with her people outdoors... shes loves when we mushroom hunt...
She runs up and sniffs out mushrooms, but I would love to teach her certain types. lol

Way cool! How far will she go?
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#18960132 - 10/10/13 03:59 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Joie said: Fkn cats. 
I believe that constitutes beastiality Joie.
Your cat is awesome! I'm jealous I really want to try taking mine with me but she has been an indoor kitty for around a year now. I don't want her thinking she gets free roam outside. As of now she will sit at the door if it's open but has never gone outside, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
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rev0kadavur said: My Cat Loves to be with her people outdoors... shes loves when we mushroom hunt...
She runs up and sniffs out mushrooms, but I would love to teach her certain types. lol

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She will go as far as I will go... as long as there aren't people or other critters to scare her... cars she is not fond of either, thankfully.
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Re: Mushroom sniffing pets [Re: lsms]
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lsms said: That's awesome! Would your beagle bark at cubes or something or just hang out by them?
Would you give them treats when they would find a patch or some money?
I wish I had a cool pet, mines just lazy and fat.
My beagle would bark shortly, point like this:
 then lay down next to them. She could differentiate between cubes and non-actives and wouldn't mess around with the poo either.
I'd hook 'em up nice when they did either of these things. First thing I did when my mutt brought me money was buy him something if I didn't have something to give him immediately. Many dogs can be trained to hunt for specific odors, Hounds like beagles are better than most and can differentiate between minute differences in odor. I wouldn't know if non-hounds would be able to hunt actives or just mushrooms in general, but I'd bet some species could, especially if they're an intelligent breed like Jack Russel Terriers and Shepherds.
It's best to start training them when they're puppies, right after you teach them reward-for-behavior motivational techniques. When they're really little, they're attention junkies and most of 'em really enjoy the interaction (and the rewards.)
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I cant wait to get a dog... Hoping to get a Blue Heeler... Waiting to have more space for a dog.
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lsms said: That's awesome! Would your beagle bark at cubes or something or just hang out by them?
Would you give them treats when they would find a patch or some money?
I wish I had a cool pet, mines just lazy and fat.
My beagle would bark shortly, point like this:
 then lay down next to them. She could differentiate between cubes and non-actives and wouldn't mess around with the poo either.
I'd hook 'em up nice when they did either of these things. First thing I did when my mutt brought me money was buy him something if I didn't have something to give him immediately. Many dogs can be trained to hunt for specific odors, Hounds like beagles are better than most and can differentiate between minute differences in odor. I wouldn't know if non-hounds would be able to hunt actives or just mushrooms in general, but I'd bet some species could, especially if they're an intelligent breed like Jack Russel Terriers and Shepherds.
It's best to start training them when they're puppies, right after you teach them reward-for-behavior motivational techniques. When they're really little, they're attention junkies and most of 'em really enjoy the interaction (and the rewards.)
thats awesome! very cute. i need to train my gf's cat to find shrooms
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What a great kitty, nice that she has the sense to stay away from cars too. All my experience with cats that follow me too far have been the "special" ones... you know, the ones that try to catch the cars
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happyfunguy said:
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lsms said: That's awesome! Would your beagle bark at cubes or something or just hang out by them?
Would you give them treats when they would find a patch or some money?
I wish I had a cool pet, mines just lazy and fat.
My beagle would bark shortly, point like this:
 then lay down next to them. She could differentiate between cubes and non-actives and wouldn't mess around with the poo either.
I'd hook 'em up nice when they did either of these things. First thing I did when my mutt brought me money was buy him something if I didn't have something to give him immediately. Many dogs can be trained to hunt for specific odors, Hounds like beagles are better than most and can differentiate between minute differences in odor. I wouldn't know if non-hounds would be able to hunt actives or just mushrooms in general, but I'd bet some species could, especially if they're an intelligent breed like Jack Russel Terriers and Shepherds.
It's best to start training them when they're puppies, right after you teach them reward-for-behavior motivational techniques. When they're really little, they're attention junkies and most of 'em really enjoy the interaction (and the rewards.)
thats awesome! very cute. i need to train my gf's cat to find shrooms
Any experience I've had training cats, other than to deal with their own excrement, has lead to failure. I've also been witness to cats lapping up mushroom tea (by accident) and their transition into a less dependent, more sentient personality after the fact. They tend to generate stronger attractions/repulsions to personalities. A wild situation (not licking up the tea they were able to access by knocking a glass gallon jug off [the counter and on to] the linoleum) would create a natural selection situation that I'd be OK with, but I would think that cats who would choose to scent-tag mushrooms over the critters that roam around them would leave a meme-generating site based around the idea speechless.
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lol.... I know the "Special" ones.
This one is super attached to me, she was from an abandoned litter that ended up in a forest at a music event with a couple who had found them all, she was the runt that no one picked, roommates brought her home to me, I've had her since she was 3 days old...
Had to teach her instincts that her mother would have taught her... something most people don't do with cats that weren't raised by a cat parent.. Particularly in regards to hunting and eating their 'Gifts' and 'toys', instead of just playing with them until they get hurt or have heart attacks 
Shes better about it now, but she has also developed a preference.. she only likes to eat young gophers.. she wont eat anything else now... so instead she brings all her 'Gifts' of mice, moles and large gophers in to play, where she releases them so they can hide to make things more interesting.... and then I have to catch them all.. the occasional bird gets brought in too... trying to train that out of her... rewards for dead rodents only... she gets the silent treatment and put outside if she brings in birds.
Hopefully that doesn't offend anyone, i know there are a lot of animal lovers that also love rodents.. i love them too, cute lil' field mice have got to be my favorite.. but a cat has got to be a cat...
However, point I was making was that this leads me to believe that it is entirely possible to train a cat from very early age via the reward system... not as easily as a dog, but I think its possible with the proper conditioning... I had meant to teach her to be okay with riding in my pack while I bike... never really got around to it in time..... I had a pair of kittens before that loved to go for bike rides, but I didn't keep it up...
Someday, I will have a dog/cat mushroom hunting team.. with a messenger bird to come give me word. 
That would be amazing...
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rev0kadavur said: lol.... I know the "Special" ones.
This one is super attached to me, she was from an abandoned litter that ended up in a forest at a music event with a couple who had found them all, she was the runt that no one picked, roommates brought her home to me, I've had her since she was 3 days old...
Had to teach her instincts that her mother would have taught her... something most people don't do with cats that weren't raised by a cat parent.. Particularly in regards to hunting and eating their 'Gifts' and 'toys', instead of just playing with them until they get hurt or have heart attacks 
Shes better about it now, but she has also developed a preference.. she only likes to eat young gophers.. she wont eat anything else now... so instead she brings all her 'Gifts' of mice, moles and large gophers in to play, where she releases them so they can hide to make things more interesting.... and then I have to catch them all.. the occasional bird gets brought in too... trying to train that out of her... rewards for dead rodents only... she gets the silent treatment and put outside if she brings in birds.
Hopefully that doesn't offend anyone, i know there are a lot of animal lovers that also love rodents.. i love them too, cute lil' field mice have got to be my favorite.. but a cat has got to be a cat...
However, point I was making was that this leads me to believe that it is entirely possible to train a cat from very early age via the reward system... not as easily as a dog, but I think its possible with the proper conditioning... I had meant to teach her to be okay with riding in my pack while I bike... never really got around to it in time..... I had a pair of kittens before that loved to go for bike rides, but I didn't keep it up...
Someday, I will have a dog/cat mushroom hunting team.. with a messenger bird to come give me word. 
That would be amazing...
dont listen to her guys! shes a sadist! has interspecies erotica snuff films and errythang! run for the hills!
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rev0kadavur said: lol.... I know the "Special" ones.
This one is super attached to me, she was from an abandoned litter that ended up in a forest at a music event with a couple who had found them all, she was the runt that no one picked, roommates brought her home to me, I've had her since she was 3 days old...
Had to teach her instincts that her mother would have taught her... something most people don't do with cats that weren't raised by a cat parent.. Particularly in regards to hunting and eating their 'Gifts' and 'toys', instead of just playing with them until they get hurt or have heart attacks 
Shes better about it now, but she has also developed a preference.. she only likes to eat young gophers.. she wont eat anything else now... so instead she brings all her 'Gifts' of mice, moles and large gophers in to play, where she releases them so they can hide to make things more interesting.... and then I have to catch them all.. the occasional bird gets brought in too... trying to train that out of her... rewards for dead rodents only... she gets the silent treatment and put outside if she brings in birds.
Hopefully that doesn't offend anyone, i know there are a lot of animal lovers that also love rodents.. i love them too, cute lil' field mice have got to be my favorite.. but a cat has got to be a cat...
However, point I was making was that this leads me to believe that it is entirely possible to train a cat from very early age via the reward system... not as easily as a dog, but I think its possible with the proper conditioning... I had meant to teach her to be okay with riding in my pack while I bike... never really got around to it in time..... I had a pair of kittens before that loved to go for bike rides, but I didn't keep it up...
Someday, I will have a dog/cat mushroom hunting team.. with a messenger bird to come give me word. 
That would be amazing...
dont listen to her guys! shes a sadist! has interspecies erotica snuff films and errythang! run for the hills!
Okay, I admit it.. but that means I have to be honest about him^^^... the General's screen name is sherman, at least thats what the sheep and goats like to call him.... hes the star of my snuff films... good ol' General Sherman, he loves a good horse dick.
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rev0kadavur said: lol.... I know the "Special" ones.
This one is super attached to me, she was from an abandoned litter that ended up in a forest at a music event with a couple who had found them all, she was the runt that no one picked, roommates brought her home to me, I've had her since she was 3 days old...
Had to teach her instincts that her mother would have taught her... something most people don't do with cats that weren't raised by a cat parent.. Particularly in regards to hunting and eating their 'Gifts' and 'toys', instead of just playing with them until they get hurt or have heart attacks 
Shes better about it now, but she has also developed a preference.. she only likes to eat young gophers.. she wont eat anything else now... so instead she brings all her 'Gifts' of mice, moles and large gophers in to play, where she releases them so they can hide to make things more interesting.... and then I have to catch them all.. the occasional bird gets brought in too... trying to train that out of her... rewards for dead rodents only... she gets the silent treatment and put outside if she brings in birds.
Hopefully that doesn't offend anyone, i know there are a lot of animal lovers that also love rodents.. i love them too, cute lil' field mice have got to be my favorite.. but a cat has got to be a cat...
However, point I was making was that this leads me to believe that it is entirely possible to train a cat from very early age via the reward system... not as easily as a dog, but I think its possible with the proper conditioning... I had meant to teach her to be okay with riding in my pack while I bike... never really got around to it in time..... I had a pair of kittens before that loved to go for bike rides, but I didn't keep it up...
Someday, I will have a dog/cat mushroom hunting team.. with a messenger bird to come give me word. 
That would be amazing...
dont listen to her guys! shes a sadist! has interspecies erotica snuff films and errythang! run for the hills!
Okay, I admit it.. but that means I have to be honest about him^^^... the General's screen name is sherman, at least thats what the sheep and goats like to call him.... hes the star of my snuff films... good ol' General Sherman, he loves a good horse dick.
ahee! i got your goat!
my gf loves my horse cock though. cant get enough of it. you should hear her "baaaaaahh"
i was gonna do my smileys and stuff by comp keeps freezing when i open them.. sigh
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ahee! i got your goat!
my gf loves my horse cock though. cant get enough of it. you should hear her "baaaaaahh"
i was gonna do my smileys and stuff by comp keeps freezing when i open them.. sigh
You let your horse screw your GF?? well, i guess thats okay, at least shes a lamb.
.....this thread was not suppose to turn this way! save it for the pub~
We should feel ashamed of ourselves.
This thread is suppose to be about kittens and mushrooms... stuff like that.
its all your fault...
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ahee! i got your goat!
my gf loves my horse cock though. cant get enough of it. you should hear her "baaaaaahh"
i was gonna do my smileys and stuff by comp keeps freezing when i open them.. sigh
You let your horse screw your GF?? well, i guess thats okay, at least shes a lamb.
.....this thread was not suppose to turn this way! save it for the pub~
We should feel ashamed of ourselves.
This thread is suppose to be about kittens and mushrooms... stuff like that.
its all your fault...

lol. ive only been to the pub like twice. i only come here for the mushrooms
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I don't know which is cuter generalsherman's cat or the kitten mushroom suit. They are both pretty damn rad!
....and we went from back to the beastiality again c'mon guys
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Re: Mushroom sniffing pets [Re: lsms]
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Anyone know of a PNW local adoption agency with hound puppies available? I've looked around a bunch (not too recently) but most of 'em have bull terriers and the like. I'd love to bring a new friend home that'll be a hunting partner. Mutts are often more fun than show-dogs.
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happyfunguy said: Mutts are often more fun than show-dogs.
Indeed they are, they always seem to be the more affectionate from my experiences.
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Purebreds seem to have the 'retarded gene' more often than not... at least from my experience working at a Vet, that was a regular observation... some of it I think is a representation of their owners as well... and that goes with cats too... and people.
Mutts are always better.
The most disgusting that I saw there was an owner of a couple Maltese dogs.. she boarded them with us for a 2 weeks and gave us strict instructions to order KFC dinner meals for the dogs at least once a day.... and they were fed hard boiled eggs, shredded cheddar, hot dogs and a bunch of other crap the rest of the time... they were given a 1/4 can of wet food as a treat, mixed into their cheddar eggs... its was awful. 
The dogs looked like this> but with a sad face.
They shat on themselves and were partially deaf and blind...
The owners was a pack-rat 'crazy-cat-lady' type...
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This dog isn't exactly sniffing out Amanita muscaria, but I think he's doing a pretty good job letting everyone know what he thinks of them.
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It's best to start training them when they're puppies, right after you teach them reward-for-behavior motivational techniques. When they're really little, they're attention junkies and most of 'em really enjoy the interaction (and the rewards.)
Did you set him onto the fruit as a pup? what was the technique? Iv'e thought about this for a while, especially with truffles, I guess you'd need the truffle first for him to get familiar with them. Always wanted a Beagle too.
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I have a blue heeler/aussie mix that used to come on hunts with me. After a while, she became more of a distraction than anything. I was going to try to train a puppy to sniff out shrooms, but he was hopeless/I was impatient with him.
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Re: Mushroom sniffing pets [Re: lsms]
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lol great thread :-)
My Alsatian/husky dog comes with me shroom hunting. I tried to get her to sniff a cep and find more but she sniffs out everything.
The only thing she's good at alerting me to are the dog poop piles when i'm out doing a 'poop-scoop' clean-up. She's very good at that!
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