Should a Bomb Dog Know More Than Its Handler?

Prior to 9/11, Work Dogs International imported, trained, and sold approximately 14 explosive detection dogs to and from our bomb dog facility per year. More than half of these trained bomb sniffing dogs were export ed to the Middle East to work with military police and security units. After 9/11, however, requests for qualified dogs and handlers rocketed to 80 bomb dog detection teams per year. Currently that number stands at 30 per year. In short, the days of a sloppy looking handler shuffling up to search a building with an elderly bomb sniffing dog are over.

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