3.2.4 Police Dogs

Answer these questions:

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
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.
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.
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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