Sarah Brown
Gracie could smell a rat, but it didn’t take long to nose out the culprit.
The 4-year-old brindle Plott hound was practicing her nose work at Connie DeBusschere’s Canine Training Adventure in Sweet Home, where boxed rats were hidden in trees, brush and tires.
It was part of her new service called the North American Sport Dog Association (NASDA) that she recently added to her dog-training business. It puts the animals’ olfactory skills…