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"We held a conference on campus last November where we heard from the Canadian Landmines Foundation that clearing landmines is 10 times more effective with dogs," says Naniece Ibrahim, communications and marketing officer at the U of W. "So purchasing the dog is our way of contributing to de-mining and keeping the issue of landmines alive."
"To pass, the dog has to find all the mines and not have any false indications of landmines," says [David Horton]. "After they pass this test, they do an external test run by the Bosnia Mine Action Centre. Dogs have to be tested and re-accredited twice a year.""If the dog smells an explosive, it is trained to sit down immediately," says Horton. "That is the signal to the handler to withdraw the dog from the danger area and a de-miner comes in with a mine detector to search for the landmine and safely dig it out of the ground."See the full content of this document
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The Nose Knows
By Cheryl Binning
Anyone who has watched their pooch sniff out a bone it buried in the ground a year earlier is not surprised by a dog's amazing nose.In fact, a canine's sense of smell is reported to be 1,000 times more sensitive than that of a human. While we have around five million olfactor...See the full content of this document
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