I trained my first lab when I was 15 with the help of my dad's friend who was a part time trainer and ran HRC. My first narcotics dog was a lab. I thought I had the pinnacle of a dog, then I was introduced to these machines. Just when I think we have seen all they can do, they do something else. Hard to describe. Whether alerting to a kilo hidden in a hidden compartment that takes 3 hours to find, or tracking a nursing home patient that wondered away with dementia, on the same command that tracks the guy who just raped a woman - all the time knowing which one to bite when we get there. Or the dog that winds a bird with a broken wing while setting out decoys and brings in the first duck of the morning without firing a shot.
All the same thing and the same response ~ humans fascinated with their dogs!!!
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