3.2.4 Police Dogs

Answer these questions:

1. What kind of breeds are used as police dogs?
   • Beagles, Chihuahuas and different kinds of mixed breeds
   • Weimeraners, Rottweilers, Dobermans, German Shepherds and Springer Spaniels
   • Greyhounds, Bassets and Great Danes

2. How is it possible for a dog to track a person?
   • It can smell a person’s body fluids within a range of 50 miles if the wind is calm.
   • It can read the past because it has a sixth sense.
   • It can smell crushed insects and vegetation, polish from a person’s shoe, fibre from clothes and dead skin cells.

3. How good is a dog's sense of smell?
   • A dog can smell 10 times better than a human being.
   • A dog can follow a track that is more than 48 hours old.
   • A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times better than that of a human being.

4. How are drug dogs trained?
   • They are born with the ability to recognize the smell of drugs and will find them if they are in the same area.
   • They are rewarded for every finding.
   • They are punished if they don’t find any drugs.

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