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soultoshare -> RE: Silly puppy.. (7/9/2007 6:37:30 PM)
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Cairn terriers are scent hounds.....what she's actually doing is tracking a scent, and when she locates something she finds interesting, she snorts air into the scent to stir up the particles. Scents appear differently to a dog than they do to humans. If you watch any scent hound track something, say a bloodhound, you'll observe the same behavior in them. (Another peice of trivia...the bloodhounds ears actually enhance their ability to "catch" smells, when the dog puts his head down, they are actually at his nose, sort of scoops scent up to funnel it to his nose.) All dogs tend to do it as a rule, just some are more noticable at it. My lab/chow mix used to get his nose down and sniff and snort everything.....he'd even do it when he was tracking a scent in the air. You can always check with a vet, but, as long as her nose isn't runny, her eyes watering, and she's not wheezing, she's just doing her thing. Believe it or not, The US Army switched to using Cairn Terriers in Europe for drug dogs.....they have an excellent sense of smell, and because of their size, the handlers can lift them to check drop ceilings, tops of cabinets, and they can get into all the little nooks and crannies of heavy equipment such as APC's and tanks to check for drugs. The unit I belonged to there had one, and a little beagle named Sally. Both of them could crawl up into a tanks tracks and root around and pop right back out.....they were actually fascinating to see!
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