A detection dog getting ready to search a car for explosives.

A detection dog is a dog that is trained to and works at using its senses (almost always the sense of smell) to detect substances such as explosives or illegal drugs. They are often known as sniffer dogs. Hunting dogs that search for game and search dogs that search for missing humans are generally not considered detection dogs. There is some overlap in cases like cadaver dogs that detect human remains. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 899 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Police dog Detection dog User:Indolences/Photo Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 899 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Police dog Detection dog User:Indolences/Photo Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ... Senses are the physiological methods of perception. ... Young boy smelling a flower Olfaction, which is also known as Olfactics is the sense of smell, and the detection of chemicals dissolved in air. ... This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. ... Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events... A hunting dog refers to any dog who assists humans in hunting, or whose breed was originally developed to do so. ... Game is any animal hunted for food or not normally domesticated (such as venison). ... A cadaver is a dead body. ...

Detection dog at the Canadian/American border

Detection dogs have been trained to search for many substances including the following: Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (768 × 1024 pixel, file size: 253 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (768 × 1024 pixel, file size: 253 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

• Agricultural produce
• Crime Evidence
• Cancer^[1]

• Drugs
• Explosives
• Currency
• Human remains
• Mold
• Termites
• Chemical substances in optical disk

One notable quality of detection dogs is that they are able to discern individual scents even when the scents are combined or masked by other odors. In one case at an Australian prison, a detection dog foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs that had been hidden in a woman's bra and smeared with coffee, pepper and Vicks Vapo-rub. A sniffer dog's sense of smell is 2000 times more sensitive than that of humans. They can even detect things (blood etc) that have been left for as long as 10 years. They can detect blood even if it has been scrubbed off surfaces. In one case recently a sniffer dog sniffed a drop of blood on the wall that had been attempted to be scrubbed off. It was so small that it couldn't be seen without a microscope. ^[2] Families Mastotermitidae Kalotermitidae Termopsidae Hodotermitidae Rhinotermitidae Serritermitidae Termitidae Termites, sometimes known as white ants, are a group of social insects usually classified at the taxonomic rank of order Isoptera. ... In computing, sound reproduction, and video, an optical disc is flat, circular, usually polycarbonate disc whereon data is stored. ...

Some of these functions can be carried out by trained pigs, which also have an excellent sense of smell, and have been used to hunt truffles, underground fungi, for centuries. This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Species Tuber aestivum Tuber brumale Tuber gibbosum Tuber himalayensis Tuber magnatum Tuber melanosporum Tuber mesentericum Tuber oregonense Tuber sinensis The true truffles are a group of several valuable and highly sought-after edible species of underground ascomycetes belonging to the fungal genus Tuber. ...

See also

• Lucky and Flo - The world's first pirated dvd sniffing dogs.
• Canine cancer detection
• Demining
• Mine clearance agencies
• DEMIRA Deutsche Minenraeumer e.V. - German Mine Clearer

This article is considered orphaned, since there are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Canine cancer detection is an approach to cancer screening that relies upon the olfactory ability of dogs to detect very low concentrations of the alkanes and aromatic compounds generated by tumors. ... Hydrema mine clearing vehicle MineWolf tiller-based demining machine deployed in Sudan Digger Mini Flail for Mine Clearance Demining is the process of removing fucklandmines or naval mines from an area. ... cheese clearance agencies – also known as de-cheesing agencies, decheesing agencies. ... DEMIRA Deutsche Minenraeumer e. ...

Footnotes

1. ^ Michael McCulloch, Tadeusz Jezierski, Michael Broffman, Alan Hubbard, Kirk Turner, and Teresa Janecki. Diagnostic Accuracy of Canine Scent Detection in Early- and Late-Stage Lung and Breast Cancers. Integrative Cancer Therapies 2006; 5(1), 30-9.
2. ^ Dogs in the News. Dog Sniffs Drugs in Woman's Bra and the Top 8 Things People Hide in Their Underwear. Canine Nation 2002.