Dog’s Hobby of Sniffing Out Lost Golf Discs Now Raises Money For Shelter

Daisy is a Labrador Retriever with a nose for detecting lost property. If you lose a golf disc at the Grand Vue Park she’s probably going to sniff it out and retrieve it. The 4-year-old dog has been so successful at finding lost discs that she’s collected over 150 of them over three years.

Every day, Daisy and her mom, Kelly Mason, go for a five-mile walk through the park in Moundsville, West Virginia. And almost every day Daisy goes off into the bush and comes back with a golf disc.

“We will be walking through the park and her nose will go up,” Mason told WTRF. “She can smell ’em, and she just goes off. She could go off 30 yards through the multiflora, the high weeds. And here she comes with a disc.”

Mason has no use for all of the discs that Daisy collects so she teamed up with the park, who has set up a program called “Daisy’s Discs”.

“Normally when park staff finds them or when our park guests find them, all of them are turned into the barn area,” Ben Bolock, the assistant general manager at Grand Vue Park said. “Some discs that have names on them, we call them, and people are able to come and pick them up. During that time, they can make a donation to Daisy’s Discs and that money will fund the Marshall County Animal Rescue League.

As for the unclaimed discs, there’s a plan for them too. “If discs are found and there’s no name on them and we’ve had them for a long period of time, and nobody has claimed them, the park will sell them for a very low amount and that money will go back into the disc golf course.”

It’s a win win for all, especially for Daisy who gets to continue doing what she loves to do – retrieve!