Arthritis Dog
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The skin of domestic dogs tends to be thicker than that of wolves, with some Inuit tribes favouring the former for use as clothing due to its greater resistance to wear and tear in harsh weather. Unlike wolves, but like coyotes, domestic dogs have sweat glands on their paw pads. The paws of a dog are all the area of those of a wolf, and their tails tend to curl upwards, another trait not found in wolves.
In any event, it is established by those who train tracking dogs that it is impossible to Arthritis Dog teach the dog how to track any better than it does naturally; the bulk instead is to motivate it properly, and teach it to maintain focus on a original track and ignore any others that might otherwise seem of greater interest to an untrained dog. An intensive search for a scent, for instance searching a ship for contraband, can def be correct fatiguing for a dog, and the dog must be motivated to continue this hard job for a faraway period of time.
