How do police dogs know...
 

Let's say I'm walking through the forest and some guy goes sprinting past. About 15 seconds later, a cop releases a police dog which runs into the forest to catch the guy.

How does the dog know that it should go after the other guy, and not me? Does the dog know at all? Maybe something to do with scent? I mean, let's say a guy crashes a car with 3 hostages. The guy jumps out and makes a run for it. One of the hostages runs away in panic. The dog smells the car and goes after the criminal. How the fuck?

I've never heard of a lawsuit where a dog got the wrong guy or a kid...

scent?

BINGO!

Someone (a fleeing criminal) with adrenaline pumping, etc. smells different.

dog=god

They just do

They are trained for that

Hahahaha... yeah it might be the scent... how do you think drug dogs work? How else is a dog gonna follow someone through the woods that it cant see or hear? Lol.. it has ESP

Yes people, scent is pretty obvious, however...

I count 2 people, a bad guy & a non-bad guy. BOTH on the run and BOTH shitting themselves. ;-)

Yet the dog goes after the right guy...

chopper, sick balls!

The guy is always in site before the dog is released after the guy. The cop makes sure that the dog knows who to go after before releasing the dog. Police dogs don't go after some guy that has been gone for 15 seconds or hasn't seen who the dog is going after first.

Police dogs don't track down people. They chase after people that are already in site. When dogs go after a escaped prisoner, they go after the scent.

dogs are cool.

ding ding ding ding

k9 unit comes on site AFTER, and s given a scent to folow.

Bah!:1orglaugh

A dog's sense of smell is insanely accurate, I watched a show on training police dogs a while back, and the cop was saying his dog could decifer between 20 different chemicals that are popular in arson cases, the guy would take an eye dropper and put on drop of a chemical on the pavement, which would evaporate right away, then he'd go somewhere else and do the same with another chemical, then again and again. Then he'd let the dog out of the kennel and tell him which chemical to find and the dog would go straight to it, barely sniffing around at all.

crazy!

My uncle works with the Canine unit and has both a drug dog and a cadaver dog. They are trained to go on scent.

Sheesh don't you people watch bugs bunny? :Graucho

Actually it works on several things. First and for most, the dog will go after the guy that runs...

If you ever get the chance to watch, the dog handler will notify the other cops in the area by yelling or radio, depending on perimeter size that the dog is loose.. All the cops will stop moving. That way the dog is not confused, and will get the guy that is running.


They will not normally let the dog loose in an area where there may be other people...

They dogs can also smell the fear..

Some of the dogs, can tell the dif between street clothes and the uniform of the officers.

Excellent movie reference. :thumbsup

The scent part is pretty obvious...


but that is fucking niiiiice. :glugglug

for all you fucking cat lovers out there i have never seen a drug cat or a cadaver cat or a rescue cat

fuck cats

i doubt it's usually sent... drug dogs work by smelling something strong.. like bud or other type of drug.. most people get cauught by rapping it 20 times in duct tape them spraying cologne or something else strong on it.. the drug dog would smell that and start trippin.. they find you in a forest cuase you make noise or are breathing hard or cuase your ass stinks like shit and they find you

woops that iddn't make sence imm ajust go back to sleep :(

Another thing evolution can explain...

Humans have a weak sense of smell... why? we dont really use it for anything.

Dogs, on the other hand, have evolved a sense of smell so precise they can track a criminal for miles by the smell of their sweat.

The way dogs percieve/process smell is a lot different than humans do. When we smell a cheeseburger we go 'hey that smells like a cheeseburger' when dogs smell a cheeseburger they smell the onions,patty,bread,lettuce,tomato all separately.

I saw something where dogs were being trained to sniff out an detect cancerous tumors on humans.

The results?

They were more accurate than modern day technology.

glitch in the matrix.

i dunno but i think it has something to do with the fact these dogs are obviously smarter than you are.

I seen that as well. Very interesting to say the least!

I have a Police trained K-9 dog. Humans have 6 Million olfactory receptors compared to the average dog at 125 Million. German Shepherds have 225 Million recpetors which is the main reason they are the ones you see used the most in detection work. They can detect chemical differences on a level of 100 million times less in concentration than humans can.

What dogs sniff when they track are the micron sized flakes of skin and sweat molecules that come off you continuously. The human body sheds 40,000 cells per minute. This is why a dog can be brought to a site for example where someone was abducted weeks earlier and still pick up the scent trail if the area hasn't been too disturbed.

You could have a dozen guys all run in a straight line mixing their scents as they each trample over the other person in front of them for miles and then have them go in all different directions and the dog will be able to differentiate and go and follow the suspects pathway.

A dog can pick up on a scent as far as a mile away using airborne scenting.

It was even recently discovered that dogs are capable of smelling cancer cells in humans and so far in tests using cancer detection dogs they have been 100%.

The military is using specially trained mine detection dogs in Afghanistan.

Dogs fossiles have been found next to human sites dating back to 14,000 years ago and some estimate as far back as 100,000 prehistoric ancestors of ours figured out that wolves could be domesticated and used to hunt for food.

If you ever have the opportunity to get a German Shepherd protection trained dog, do it. They are the best bodyguard and will protect you with their life.

yep best dogs ever

cats don't work for minimum wage