Today we received the news of the death of Ajax, a German shepherd who found a bomb planted in Palma de Mallorca in 2009, thereby avoiding what could have been a tragedy. It is a good time to remember how sniffer dogs working today on our blog.
The smell of dogs is their biggest asset for use in works that go beyond consideration as pets . Not for nothing have, nothing more and nothing less, 215 million scent receptors than us. He said soon! We've all seen, for example, sniffer dogs at airports, experts in detecting drugs in the luggage.Not just German Shepherds who are chosen for this task, but also others like the golden retriever, the laborers or Argentine Bulldogs are often used in this way by the police. The latter also have stunning looks and size as a plus.
The most common tasks of these dogs that go a step beyond being pets are to detect narcotics or narcotics police brigades drug , but also can be trained to detect banknotes. Its effectiveness is more than proven: in Brazil, the dog named Boss went on to receive numerous death threats from "kingpins" of the drug after repeatedly thwart their deliveries.
We also find sniffer dogs as Ajax said, able to warn of the presence of electronic devices or machinery hidden. But the chances of dogs and their amazing olfactory abilities do not stay there, and in 2010 came to light the news that a dog Squadron Order and Security Canine Chilean police had been trained for underground electrical failures. Or we can go even further and jump to the news from the European Respiratory Journal that said, in 2011, it would be possible to train dogs that are detected by this kind of early lung cancer.
As we see, our dogs can not only be excellent and faithful pets , they are also able to contribute in many ways to the welfare of our society. No wonder that the good of Ajax was even decorated by the King of Spain, with the same status as a policeman "two legs". No doubt that our life is safer, in many ways, thanks to the brave sniffer dogs.
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