Tuesday, April 22, 2008

SNIFFER DOG CLONING

Korea has cloned sniffer dogs and raised the percentage rate of acceptable and competent sniffers. This apparently speeds up the process of finding dogs that have the right sniffers, just like computer dating helps people find their well-matched life partner.

Nightclubs in County Down, Ireland, are putting sniffer dogs on the doors of nightclubs to help keep drugs out. They seem to have sniffing dogs in airports that will sniff out sandwiches that people might illegally bring into the country off the plane. Does the country have its priorities straight? Should more sniffer dogs be at the Mexican and Canadian borders? Instead of a 26 foot high wall, maybe the could have a dog run. They can tie up some pit bulls between the sniffers? Of course there will have to be a few gun-toting DEA agents accompanying them. The dogs will also have to be trained to sniff out the endangered animals, who have no passport, who must be let through to keep their diminishing populations up by adding to an international sperm exchange as the animals roam between the US and Mexico or Canada. Animal protectors are against the wall because it stops this ability of the colonies of animals to maintain themselves due too much inbreeding.

Northern Island is using sniffer dogs in prisons. Isn't that a bit like letting the fox guard the hen house? Do many drugs get into prisons that the staff don't know about or get their cut from? Maybe I'm misinformed. I don't hang around prisons very often. One woman who hid drugs in her bra along with coffee, pepper, and Vick's Vapo-Rub was sniffed out (reported in the Canine Nation).

And for laughs, the stupidity of people who bring drugs to a drug seminar.

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