June 26th, 2020 at 9:59PM
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0krapula asked:

Hey there, I saw the post you recently made about K9s, and how drug detection dogs suck at finding drugs and actually just respond to their owners body language. Is this also the case with cadaver dogs?

fumblebeefae:

Nope! Cadaver dogs are actually incredibly good at detecting human remains, with some experts saying they have a 95% success rate, as along as they’re trained and handled correctly and there’s enough human tissue / remains to keep the scent of death. 

Here’s one short paper of olfactory sensitivity in cadaver dogs: 

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42 notes #and? at least in the usa most cadaver dogs are owned and trained by private citizens#not the police
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