Talk:Detection dog/Archive 1

Probable Cause
Considering that the signal from a detection dog can be probable cause for a search, are there any stats on dog's efficiency? Is there a false positive percentage? And I don't mean if they smelled something that used to be there, and is only now detectable by dog, I mean can the dog signal without any cause? Promontoriumispromontorium (talk) 17:17, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Even if a dog won't "lie", but maybe it could misinterpret what its handler wants? Maybe if the dog gets involuntary non-verbal cues from its handler (e.g. the handler doesn't like the person being searched, for personal reasons)? Maybe the dog would signal (or bark, or whatever it's supposed to do) even when there are no illegal products in the luggage? Is this possible? Are there any statistics about this? 201.216.245.25 (talk) 13:55, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * There is an experiment which suggests that the handlers beliefs influence the dogs responses as in the Clever Hans effect. It should probably be mentioned in this article. Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.84.16.93 (talk) 17:07, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * yes. in NSW the rate at which dogs correctly identify someone carrying drugs is 26%. i've added a section on this.--Amaher (talk) 21:44, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

More detail would be great
There aren't many references for further reading either. Some stuff I'd be interested to know is- can one dog be trained in detecting more than one thing, e.g. explosives and drugs? Is there anything the dogs can't be trained to detect? What sort of dogs are used for this work? How long does it take to train a dog to be a detection dog?

Just some suggestions :) 91.105.157.100 (talk) 20:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

From personal experience in working for Round The Clock Pest Control, and on staff we have a few Beagles that are trained to find live bed bugs. When we purchased the dogs we were told that it takes up to 800 hours of training to get a dog ready to work. Once the dog has a handler, the training continues to a minimum of 2 hours a day 7 days a week for the entire time the K9 will be working. I asked the trainer if the dogs can be trained to locate multiple scents, the answer was yes, but it would be twice the daily training for the K9 team and the cost would be almost as much as if we were to purchase two dogs one for each scent. The trainer also said that all dogs can be trained to locate a scent, but the best dogs for this are ones with longer snouts, and if what you are looking for has a scent or specific smell a dog can be trained to locate it.

Hope this helps in answering your questions; Marcelo Gallo — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarceloGallo (talk • contribs) 05:09, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Total rewrite
This needs a total rewrite. It's like a school essay on the subject. Far more detail, far more further reading and far, far more sections. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.185.60 (talk) 07:40, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Poorly written sentence in first paragraph of introduction
I resisted the urge to immediately navigate away from this article when I read the following non-cited sentence in the first paragraph:

"They are also used for drug raids to find where the drugs are."

What do you think about moving this sentence up to the mention of drug sniffing dogs/editing or deleting it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.76.135.230 (talk) 17:49, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Page Formatting Messed Up
The formatting for a couple of sections of this page, most notably that of "Functions", have a messed up formatting due to the overabundance of pictures. I am going to move these pictures entirely (or possibly delete them, if that makes sense) for the sake of formatting. The page looks very weird otherwise, even if the photos are "encyclopedic" and demonstrative, which I agree they are. --FuzzyGopher (talk) 19:38, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Historical concept, need, and origin of detection dogs and other animals
From talking to others and reading over about the last 50 years, or so, I know that both dogs and pigs have been used for sniffing-out troufles in European oak forests going back for centuries. But in a modern context to solve modern problems, when, where, and what was the origin of trained detection dogs?

As it is, the article is a good starting point for the subject, but as others have already said, it needs to be broadened. Linstrum (talk) 23:44, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Images
Copying the removed images here in case they can be of use later. Sizeofint (talk) 05:33, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Since images of military working dog removed, perhaps the WP MilHist no longer applies?Trilotat (talk) 14:14, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Electronic Storage Detection (ESD)
Article here: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/electronics-sniffing-dogs-how-k9s-became-a-secret-weapon-for-solving-high-tech-crimes/

Mentions specific chemicals trained for - Hydroxycyclohexyl phenyl ketone and Triphenylphosphine oxide. Jhansonxi (talk) 03:10, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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