Dogs narcotic detectors

In running of the years, they have been discovered innumerable and perfected mechanical and electronic instruments with the intention of helping the man to make diverse tasks. - Even though the modern technology of nowadays has obtained numerous and remarkable progresses, exist a very important aid that the man has been having to his reach for million years. Yet, it has been only until very recently when it has been begun to explode totally and developing his possibilities to use them in more complex tasks. - With this aid we talked about to the best friend and loyal companion but of the man, that is to say, the dog. -

The Selection of the Dog:

One of the most important factors that it must be considered is the selection of the dog, that adapts to the training in the narcotic detection. -

The statistics indicate that only one of each forty and three animals to which it assumes healthy and of good temperament satisfies basic the previous requirements for the selection. -

It is of great importance the task of selecting and of obtaining dogs that accept and finishes the corresponding training satisfactorily. -

The selection of dogs generally concentrates in races like Farmers Retriever- Golden- German Shepherd Brake Alemán, but that does not prevent that any racially mixed dog, or of medium or great size, can be enabled to work like dog detector. -

In the first place the dog must have a good temperament and demonstrate brave aptitude - this is an independence characteristic and it pronounces in that the dog is very active and alerts and inquisitive before all activity that surrounds to him. - It does not have to be aggressive towards the people, but simultaneously it must know how to conserve his space. -

Another one of the characteristics is that the dog must demonstrate the great desire, almost frenetic in cobranza of objects, is for that reason, the inclination by Retriever Farmer, its genénetica condition favors this circumstance. -

Programs exist in which the dog must have between a year and three years to enter to the training. - I think that the age of a year is not necessary like indicative, to begin a program. - We worked from kill enough time with dogs as of the 12 weeks. - Once concluded the Test of Cambell or another one, he comes himself to develop the sensorial field of the puppy, including all the ?possible memories?, the game with the specific object must always prevail without arriving at the saturation, are possible to be included in the game object from one first instance the scent of the selected narcotic., begins itself generally with sativa cannabis. - The ?memories? are the training that are carried out with the puppy so that arrived at the 6 or 8 months it is enabled for the detection, arriving at a point of high performance to the year of age. -

A ?memory? is to take it to play underneath a vehicle in its interior, within a house, to look for in boxes or other objects, to raise and to lower stairs, heights, to smell trees, games to opened field, games of collection and positive reinforcement.

In this point it is necessary to clarify an aspect that takes to the popular belief that the Dogs Drug Detectors are addict. Such affirmation is totally inexact, personally I do not know place some in which the dogs must consume dangerous drugs even to make their detection. - In the first place if such thing existed, we would have to renew dogs every month, since the upheaval produced in the cerebral field is very important, if there would be a dog that consumed cocaine in minimum doses, surely would pronounce upheavals at level of the nuclei of the crust, with possible lost of an important capacity of the sense of smell, which has neurons of the high sensitivity, with direct connection to the brain, these neurons olfatorias are the unique ones that approximately reproduce each 20 to 25 days in all the living beings fitted in the system olfatorio. -

In all program of Dogs Detectors, the game considers (pelotita- kong- or surrounded towel), the collection capacity, the capacity search and interest. - The dog finds the narcotic through a training I specify related to the ?game? and the ?association of scents?. - It is so the dogs detectors of explosives work of a very similar way to the dogs narcotic detectors. -

In relation to narcotics the association of scents with cannabis is inoffensive, so that the poisonous effect takes place is necessary to smoke it. -

With other narcotics they work with specific chemical substances, soon with the true narcotic taking the precaution in the case from Cocaine Hydrochlorate that the dog does not take direct bonding oral or nasal route with the narcotic. -

When the dog detector discovers the narcotic, it does not look for the drug in himself in fact, which really is looking for is its toy, related to the scent of the narcotic. -

For that reason the dog always receives its prize, when it detects the narcotic. -

The dogs detectors act a vital as in the fight against the drug, the quality and the olfación capacity surpasses unimaginable limits. - The dog recognizes its master, through time, not by the appearance or another detail, but by the scent that is recorded in the memory in the long term. - The olfactory memories are of short and long term, in the Special Unit of Dogs Police of Currents - Argentina, we have carried out numerous experiences with ?olfactory memory of short term?. So simple but very important things for our dogs are to allow them whenever they leave stroll, to smell you hoist them, grass, walls, is the contact but hard in the world perruno. -

Period of Training

The period of training in dogs of 9 months in ahead lasts approximately 4 months, in which the dog happens through different levels from training, enabling it in the search in vehicles, varied houses, lands, objects, airships, people etc.

An active form exists: that it is the dog that looks for the narcotic frenetically and that its alert pronounces of different forms, that only the guide knows them. -

The passive form: the base training is equal to the previous one, soon changes, since the dog this oriented its search in people. - The dog when detecting the narcotic feels or it follows it the carrier. - it is a training of greater complication than the assets.

Author: Dr Mario Rolando Rosillo

Commander of the Special Unit of Dogs - Police of Currents - Argentina

Director of the Course of Dogs Narcotic Detectors

Professor Titular Superior School of Officials

Instructor Dogs of War Courses P.A.R. (Police of High Risk)

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