One morning while Bella and Chief were sleeping with my sons, and I was getting ready for work, Bella broke the quiet dawn with her patented non-stop barking used to signal anything from "Look, there's a squirrel" to "Hey Spike, neighbor, how's the sniffing these days?" I took her out on the leash to do her business, and she kept trying to look into the front yard. I brought her in and looked out the front door. There were four deer in the front yard. She had SMELLED them through closed windows on the second floor. They were shut and locked and the blinds drawn, so she hadn't seen them. She smelled them. I knew she had a great sniffer, but this really surprised and amazed me.
In contrast, Chief kept sleeping and didn't want to leave the warm, cushy bed. He either couldn't smell them (very possible, his nose is not nearly as keen as hers) or just didn't care (highly likely, the stubborn hound combined with the laid-back lab in Chief's DNA often translates into a "If it requires moving, I really don't care" attitude).
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