IS YOUR PUPPER . . .a Snuffle-up-a-gus?

[Guinness]

Whilst the little Wiener Schnitzel is busy sleeping, I thought I would ask:

Is your pupper a Snuffle-up-a-gus? Anybody who has ever watched Sesame Street knows Snuffey is Big Bird's imaginary friend - a kind of wooly mammoth-looking guy who no one ever saw (except for us watchers) for years until finally one day he became an official on-air personality.

Guinness always puts his nose on full snuffle alert when checking the floor for tweets or goodies. It's funny to listen to him as he vacuums his way around, carefully following the scent of the smallest crumb. He's almost completely deaf at this point and he often stands near my bedroom door, yipping for me. Why he doesn't try to sniff me out I don'[t know!

Just to keep him on his toes, I've started to dribble some of my Fiber One dry cereal around the kitchen floor for him to hunt out. Today, imagine his surprise when he had competition - CoCo BunAnna, the last remaining of The Bunny Stalkers, who also loves Fiber One!

Auntie Keren

[Roberta]

Karen if I sprinkled BRAN around here it would be 4 clydesddales , they too eat ANYTHING

[Leslie]

We play this game!  It's called "Find it."  The whole time I am saying: "Use yer sniffer! Find it! Find it!"  And then snuffling commences. It's getting a little harder for Zuzu to find cookies on the patterned rug, but becuase she is on a D-I-E-T we use baby carrot pieces.
What fun with bunnies, too.

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

I can just picture it!  I always wondered what it would be like to be able to smell like they do. Of course in some situations that could backfire too. 

[auntydoxzz]

Before I lost her, my Twinkie angel played "find the treats!!"  At that point she was pretty much blind and I believe pretty deaf.  When we went to bed at night, I would take about 4-5 training bits and hide them around one of her fleece blankies.  She never lost her nose, and would track them all down. Once in a while when I think she was hungrier than normal, she would hunt them all down and then get carried away and start flinging the fleece up into the air, looking for more treats to rain down on her. Those times I would usually go grab a few more for her!!  Sometimes when I think she was just too tired she would not hunt down each one using her  nose, but would literally toss the fleece in the air, and then it did rain down the rest of the treats!!  Mind you often there would be 2-3 pieces of fleece and she would fling all of them into the air!!

[David C.]

I think most dachsies tend to possess the snuffle gene.   I like when they walk around nose down, tail high.  Makes them kind of look like four legged dustbusters.    Rudy-angel was, by far, the best sniffer of my dacshies.   Max-angel seemed to be more sight oriented when he was younger, but, as he got older, began to snuffle as he would trudge his way around the perimeter of the backyard.   The Zs are both snuffle types.

[BonniesMom]

Well, Bonnie may not be a Gus, but she's a Snuffle-Up-A-GOOSE!  She always seems to have her nose into something and especially edible somethings.   

What do you expect, Mommy?  We've got dem long noses.  The better to smell wiff!

[papbouv]

Duh = Dachshund = Hunting dog we are suppose to use our noses read back in Dog Fancy or Dog World a long time ago Dachshunds were used to track wounded Deer in the Forests so they would not suffer this was in the UK I think.The Dachshunds always found their Deer? Stag's they were in pretty high demand.