Sniffer dogs have proved to be more accurate than Covid-19 tests devised by scientists, which is why they are being deployed at places where normal testing is difficult such as at airports. They are being used already in some EU countries namely Belgium and Finland …
Scientists at Porton Down, the UK government’s top secret defence laboratory near Salisbury, are training specialist sniffer dogs to detect new variants of the zombie drug Spice. The dogs are to be deployed in prisons across the country to sniff out this drug. Comment: many …
Digital device detection dogs have protected people from sexual abuse by a man, Nicky Paul Mitchell, thirty-eight, who was under a sexual harm prevention order. He was obliged, under the order, to declare any Internet-enabled devices in his possession to his offender manager. He was …
I have recently written about the training of dogs to detect the coronavirus. Some dogs have been supplied by the organisation Blind Dogs because they failed in that project but were obviously highly suitable to be retrained as coronavirus sniffer dogs. It is hoped that …
The charity Guide Dogs kindly donated three dogs to another charity, Medical Detection Dogs, for them to be trained to detect the virus Covid-19. The three dogs did not quite come up to standard as blind dogs but of course they’d been through lots of …
NEWS AND VIEW: In South Africa, a dog whose name is Havoc, has been trained to sniff out pangolins, dead or alive. The story immediately reminded me of dogs being trained to sniff out the coronavirus in people. A dog’s remarkable sense of smell can …
People travelling into or out of the EU with more than €10,000 in cash must declare it at the border. In Germany, there is a customs dog, a 9-year-old Belgian shephard dog whose name is Aki who has caught 12 people carrying a total of …
