hey Gud, if your still wondering about the dog thing, it turns out my dog is not smart at all. its probably my fault as i never had him trained to seek out the pork. i let him get a good smell and then tried to make him find the hidden package, but he was too dumb to understand and just kept going for what i used as the smell sample. so i went over to my buddy who still works there and he told me his dog is absolutely trained for pork sniffing.
anyways, his dog found the elbow in the oven style turkey cooking bags, even when it was double bagged. (btw, these bags are amazingly great to use with your volcano for when u get sick of the garbage bag roll thing that comes with the volcano). we kept the dog inside, we hid the bagged up pork under a wheel barrel outside, we went inside, he used some of the same pork to give up as scent for the dog, and we took the dog out side. he found the bagged up pork within minutes. since he found the turkey bags, we decided to double wrap the vacuum sealed packs. the dog didn't find those as quickly, and after 10 minutes of him searching, he found it hidden under a turned over flower pot. however i'm not sure if he actually found it, or just got lucky. after the first few minutes, it looked like the dog was using process of elimination to find it, or at least it seemed that way to me
so to conclude, i wouldnt trust the turkey bags, and if u use the vacuum sealer, make sure you do it twice (vacuum seal the package, and then vacuum seal the same package again). again once he got really close, he still found them, but not nearly as close as when it was in the turkey bags.
good luck!
