Bring in the dogs....itv

Haha lol......

Should off watched this morning with schofiled......they had a drug dog on and it found something hidden in the arm off the settee .......

I love these programmes about the dogs that are so helpful, finding people who are lost, and bodies alive and otherwise, in crisis situations like hurricanes etc wonderful animals.

Happened to be a spaniel same colour as you know who...

A dog interprets the world predominantly by smell, whereas a human interprets it by sight. As a human I cannot even imagine what that would be like to get most of my information from what I smell. This is why a blind or deaf dog can get along just fine if allowed to be a dog , given the proper leadership and exercise and their sensory whiskers are not cut off when they are groomed. While a dog's brain is only one-tenth the size of a human brain, the part that controls smell is 40 times larger than in humans. A dog’s sense of smell is about 1,000 to 10,000,000 times more sensitive than a human’s (depending on the breed). A human has about 5 million scent glands, compared to a dog, who has anywhere from 125 million to 300 million (depending on the breed). Ever wonder why your dog's nose is wet? The mucus on a dog's nose actually helps it smell by capturing scent particles. When a dog’s nose is dry they may lick it to aid them in scent.



When dogs smell something they are not just registering a smell, they get an entire story. They can smell pheromone, which is not only found in the urine and fecal, but on the skin and fur. From this they can tell a lot about another dog or human including if they are male or female, what they ate, where they have been, what they have touched, if they are ready to mate, if they have recently given birth, or had a false pregnancy, and what mood they are in. They have even been known to smell cancer on people, alerting them to it and saving their lives. This means when your dog smells another person, tree that another dog has peed on, pant leg that another dog has rubbed up against, or chair that someone has sat in, they are actually reading a story, not just smelling an interesting scent. While a human will smell something like spaghetti sauce as one smell, a dog smells each individual ingredient. Unlike humans, dogs can move their nostrils independently, allowing them to know what direction a smell is coming from.

http://www.itv.com/thismorning/hot-topics/crime-file-megan-sniffer-dog

Megan's got a nose for trouble
11:38 - 6 Feb 2014
Megan, the most successful Border Force sniffer dog and her handler Steve Martin tell us about the work they do in battling crime... and show us how it's done!

I saw her, she was amazing!
Philip and holly were very impressed!!