Treasure Hunting Dogs

[Diamond Spike]

Anyone ever use Treasure Hunting Dogs?
If so, please tell me your experiences with them.


Thanks
Diamond Spike

 

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[Diamond Spike]

Ok just saw Yogi digging up silver dollars Great Dog.

Anyone else use dogs to hunt down treasure?

Let me know how they do.

Thanks:

Diamond Spike

 

[cpt_peewee]

Well, Tom Massey swears by Snoop.
I have a Basset hound that loves to dig aluminum cans. (Just can't seem to get him into gold digging.) *Hope the picture shows up*
HH
CPW

 

[Michigan Badger]

I don't have a dog at this time but I had one years ago. It wasn't trained to hunt treasure it just did it all on it's own. She "Lady" (German Shorthair) was a local thief. She's work the neighborhood at night and in the morning we had stuff all over our front porch. Dad finally had to tie her up so she couldn't steal.

Dogs used to hunt buried treasure is not a new thing. This practice probably dates back thousands of years (gold/silver mines). Even today the police do this type of thing with their dogs on a regular basis. They're looking mainly for drug money caches (guns, etc.).

People have trained dogs to smell, and hunt for, paper money. This is easy to do but you need a good dog and must start when it's still a pup. In some areas people loose a lot of paper money due to the wind blowing it out of their hands.

If I were younger and lived where I could have dogs, I'd be training a few right now. Can dogs actually be trained to hunt for buried coins and relics? YES! This is fact, not theory.?

Using dogs would be ideal for locating shipwreck items along beaches. One could simply "walk the dogs" and then mark hot spots with a GPS device. Then sneak back later with a metal detector and shovel.?

 

[dano91]

When I was first asked to train Yogi it was for gold. So I started with the basics [people] and he did very well.
Then we moved up to gold, silver, PVC pipe, etc. I don't think you need to train a dog for one certain thing.
It's more of a matter of communicating with the dog, and getting him to look for stuff. Even now when I hunt him he looks for all kinds of things. I really feel like he works like a Magnetometer honing in on disturbed ground. When I Salt an area with coins or gold watches, he misses some of them and quite often finds stuff I didn't bury. But by no means is it an exact science.

 

[Diamond Spike]

Thanks dano for the info. I've been talking to the wife about getting a puppy to train to look for things but not limited to gold, silver, coins, folding money. I'm sort of scared of this one, though. I can see the dog stealing someone's wallet LOL. Daughter says I should get a Golden retriever and call him Goldie. LOL

Thanks again dano
Diamond Spike

 

[jon43]

how would you use one ? hold it by its tail like a detector and move around the yard, then it barks when you hit a good spot just joking

 

[diggemall]

Just a thought from a kinda technical standpoint - I can't see how a dog could find 'old gold'. Gold is inert, meaning it doesn't readily react with anything, so I can't see how it could give off any odor of it's own. After a number of years the scent of the people who placed or misplaced the gold would have to fade out of existence. This would not be true for other precious metals like silver, nickel and copper; they all react easily and corrode so they would likely have a distinct odor of their own.

As for a dog finding planted or even relatively recently lost gold items I'm certain the dog must be homing in on the scent of the person who planted / lost them, not a 'scent' given off by the gold itself.

Just my 2 cents worth. I'd LOVE to have somebody prove me wrong.

 

[dano91]

We have tried to fool Yogi many times, and many ways, but he all ways finds the gold. I'm thinking maybe it's the soil that reacts to the gold.
A lot of people say that gold is inert, but everything is made up of molecules, and there must be some kind of movement in the structure giving off somekind of scent, positive or negative ions etc.
Dano.

 

[joe]

We have tried to fool Yogi many times, and many ways, but he all ways finds the gold. I'm thinking maybe it's the soil that reacts to the gold.
A lot of people say that gold is inert, but everything is made up of molecules, and there must be some kind of movement in the structure giving off somekind of scent, positive or negative ions etc.
Dano.

Hello Dano,

Do u have a book that teach to train a dog on how to find stuff,i really love to read one
and try it with my dog.

joe