I am hardly an expert, but the answer to
your question is all of the above. These guys hear, see, smell, and ‘feel’
everything in their environment long before we have a clue what they are all
excited about. I have had the dogs raising the dead only to head out there and
have to wait an eternity for one of our wandering black bears to come up over
the ridge. They couldn’t see it, certainly didn’t hear it, but they
had to have smelled it.
They can hear the ambulances coming long
before I do and that howl is a hoot to hear. It’s not barking it’s
a howl. If I wait long enough eventually I will hear the ambulance, most often
on the ‘main’ road by our house which is more than 4 miles down the
valley.
Gary Kaufman Roads End Llamas
http://roadsendllamas.blogspot.com
Putting Power and Presence in Your Pasture
From: owner-
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 2:14
PM
To: Pyr-Net
Subject: [pyrnet] How do working
LGD's cue in on predator activity
Hello,
I would like some feedback from those of you with working LGD's...
specifically, do you think your dog's know a predator (coyotes and wolves)
is in the vicinity before it is seen? If so, how are they alerting
to this? Do you think it is scent? Or are they alerting to howls and
vocalizations?
Keith and
Soo Weber
http://www.sdk-weber.com