Puppies Train To Be Drug and Bomb Search Dogs at Penn Vet

 [ Voiceover ] Someday this little guy could be a bomb-sniffing dog with a SWAT team. In fact, Thunder has now been training for almost three months He's in PennVet's Working Dog Center class of 2013, the center's first class, Along with seven classmates he trains each day. 

How do you train a dog for narcotics detection?

They are all specially selected dogs, groomed from a very young age, to work with police, military or rescue search teams. Whether it's search and rescue or cadaver work, the bombs or narcotics we'll be able to imprint them with the scent or whoever buys them will be able to imprint them. 

How do I train my dog to be a sniffer dog?

With the scent [ Voiceover ] The puppies go through intense physical training and learn important skills. They need to be able to work effectively in difficult and sometimes dangerous situations At first. The tasks are simple, like learning how to climb and balance, but their work quickly becomes more challenging In this exercise: Kai searches for a hidden tug, a piece of leather with a recognizable scentLocal police help the Working Dog Center by imprinting towels with different scents, such as cocaine or explosives. 

How do you train a dog to find drugs?

The dogs can then learn these scents Police do use the real thing when imprinting a scent The tug is hidden in the floor under the drain cover Kai will indicate that she's found it by scratching at the area. After they leave here, they'll probably attend a normal narcotics. 

How do you train your dog to find hidden objects?

School will be between ten and twelve weeks. Explosives can go anywhere from ten to sixteen weeks, There's a lot of different scents that they have to be taught [ Voiceover ]. This time. Kai must find a person who is hidden in a barrel at this construction site. Kai is trained to ignore these people standing here. 

In a rescue situation, she cannot be distracted by rescue workers. Here, Socks is looking for the leather tug in a warehouse room. She will sit to indicate that she's found it. The sit indicator is important for searches for explosives. Search dogs must not scratch at bombs. For obvious reasons, These dogs train five days a week, Foster parents take the dogs home at night, then return them each morning for more school. The dogs train here for about a year..