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Hi,
I think confusion some times arises from the literal translations and the way some German phrases are translated by the Germans prior to reaching our shores.
An example being when I first got involved in Bavarians in Germany the handler who was explaining the dogs role described it as a bloodhound, his broken English and my broken German coming up with the best fitting description, which thinking back was quite accurate. Twenty years later when companies started producing what they translate as sweat scent for the English speaking countries the translation came, I take it, from the blood of a wounded animal e.g. schweiss, hence sweat.
I suppose many meanings get lost over the years through translation and adaptation. After all the working blood hound in this country follows the scent trail/track left by people not blood, a main contributor to that scent picture is sweat so should we have called it a 'chlorine, sodium, potassium, urea,calcium,magnesium,phosphate suphate,iodine, nitrogen,bicarbanate,lipid,sugar,(and its metabolites),vitamins,and hormone hound‘, not quite as snappy.
I think you would be quite surprised by what Lola follows and that the components that are involved in the scent picture are far more complex than most people imagine, but that’s a huge subject that I wont bore you all with now, however, sorry Mark, very much yuk, your dog does follow sweat, as does every body else’s, and even worse it follows varying degrees of decomposition and nasty little bacteria, even bigger yuk.
Anyway the original purpose of the post. Sweatscent is a good stand in Trapper as it has the components of blood and you really need your dog to practice as close to the real thing as you can, that said nothing beats the real thing.
Hope this helps
Best Regds Mark M
). If you train your pooch on an aniseed trail you may end up finding a shed load of bird feeders instead! 
