Those incredibly 'unreliable' DOGS............again!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6732155/Britains-Got-Talent-Simon-Cowell-breaks-tears-hero-police-dog-audition.html

Finn is another hero dog and there maybe some good news here for service animals.

Bare in with this story though, that Simon is a keen supporter of Kate's charity "Missing People" and her husband and fellow suspect say that these dogs are incredibly unreliable.

What an absolute hero!

I believe Eddie and Keela had many successful missions prior to their work helping in the search for Madeliene  and I  am sure I heard on the radio how successful they had been the following year searching at the Jersey Childrens home, I find it difficult to believe their reliability is being questioned. 

Jill Havern wrote:Mind of his own...!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6832229/Workmen-rush-revive-dead-dog-discover-staging-lie-protest.html

Workmen rush to revive 'dead' dog - only to discover it was staging a lie-down protest | Daily Mail Online A pair of heroic workmen rushed to help a dog walker whose beloved pet had 'died' only to discover that the stubborn pooch was staging a lie-down protest at not going on his favourite walking ... www.dailymail.co.uk

When I lived in Crete the dog belonging to the petrol station owner used to lie in the middle of the road and wouldn't budge. Buses and cars drove around him. He was part of the community and made everyone smile. I nicknamed him Bollard.

Great name!

Thank goodness drivers didn't use him as a speed bump!

Jill Havern wrote:Great name!

Thank goodness drivers didn't use him as a speed bump!

Humans say 'no man is an island'. Bollard said 'this dog is an island'.

Many years ago the Scientific community standardised a system of International Units. 
The Metre for length, the Kilogram for mass, the Second for time, the Amp for electrical current

The Media, inhabited by people who largely lack a GCSE in Physics have invented their own system.     The British Press Unit.   The BPU 

Unit of Volume or area
1 Olympic Sized Swimming Pool
This is clearly very big, so big it is quite enormous, and much bigger than you could swim in and reach the other end, so it must be very very big, and probably very deep as well, but we have never tried to dive to the bottom
50m x 25m x 2 or 3m.  
2,500,000 l.
2,500 m³

Unit of Mass (or what the Press call Weight)
1 Jumbo Jet
Jumbo jets are obviously very big, so this must weigh a huge amount – except that it flies in the air, so perhaps it is very light at the same time, but it is very big and can carry lots of people and has very long arms / wings.
60m wide x 63m long
250,000 kg  = 250 tonnes take off weight

Unit of Length
1 London Bus
Quite long and quite high – except that they go under bridges so they can’t be that high, and they nip in and out of traffic, so they can’t be that long either.
11m long
5 m high
(In fact rather shorter than 2 Rolls Royces, and just a bit taller than 2 Land Rovers stacked on top of one another)

A Longer Unit of Length
1 Football Pitch
Usually about 116m long but it can be anywhere between 90m and 120m which must be very exciting for players who train on one size and have to compete on another. (Approximately equal to 10.5 London Buses - see above)

Unit of Area
1 Football pitch (see above)
More tricky.  Legally it can be 45m to 92m wide.  Mostly they are about 70m
So the area should be around 116m x 70m = 8120 m²,  0.8 hectares or 2 acres.
The last person who understood acres was a ploughman who died in Lincolnshire in 1826 at the age of 83, and he had forgotten everything he once knew a long time before.

Unit of very large volume, or area, or possibly both, or something very big anyway.
1 Wembley Stadium
90,000 crowd - which is a lot of people, so they need 2,618 toilets [that is actually true !]
40,000 m² roof area = 4 hectares, which very few people really understand, so let’s call it nine and three quarters acres, which absolutely no one does.
“Bowl volume” = 1.1million m³ - or 440 Olympic sized swimming pools.  (see above)    I knew that unit would be useful.
“Wembley Stadium filled to a depth of 10 feet”.  No one has ever been able to understand this but it is clearly a very, very big amount, and would take 100 workmen a very long time to clear away or dig out, or pump away, or dispose of in some other unspecified manner

Unit of Height (Europe)
1 Eiffel Tower
1,000 ft = 325 m

Which is of course a bit smaller than the 

Unit of Height (US)
1 Empire State building
1,200 ft = 380 m.  Not including the antenna sticking out of the top which you can’t really see from the ground, and anyway we think King Kong snapped it off so no one knows whether it’s there any more anyway

Unit of electrical Current
40,000 Volts
The Amp being too difficult to understand, the British Press Unit is the Tens of Thousands of Volts.   In its most frequent form it is expressed as 40,000 volts.   This is clearly a lot, and clearly very dangerous, and obviously always fatal.
The crackling sound caused by combing your hair on a dry day is 10,000 volts, and wearing a combination of nylon shirt and woollen jumper can build up 40,000 volts when you take them off.

Shocking !

PeterMac wrote:Many years ago the Scientific community standardised a system of International Units. 
The Metre for length, the Kilogram for mass, the Second for time, the Amp for electrical current

The Media, inhabited by people who largely lack a GCSE in Physics have invented their own system.     The British Press Unit.   The BPU 

Unit of Volume or area
1 Olympic Sized Swimming Pool
This is clearly very big, so big it is quite enormous, and much bigger than you could swim in and reach the other end, so it must be very very big, and probably very deep as well, but we have never tried to dive to the bottom
50m x 25m x 2 or 3m.  
2,500,000 l.
2,500 m³

Unit of Mass (or what the Press call Weight)
1 Jumbo Jet
Jumbo jets are obviously very big, so this must weigh a huge amount – except that it flies in the air, so perhaps it is very light at the same time, but it is very big and can carry lots of people and has very long arms / wings.
60m wide x 63m long
250,000 kg  = 250 tonnes take off weight

Unit of Length
1 London Bus
Quite long and quite high – except that they go under bridges so they can’t be that high, and they nip in and out of traffic, so they can’t be that long either.
11m long
5 m high
(In fact rather shorter than 2 Rolls Royces, and just a bit taller than 2 Land Rovers stacked on top of one another)

A Longer Unit of Length
1 Football Pitch
Usually about 116m long but it can be anywhere between 90m and 120m which must be very exciting for players who train on one size and have to compete on another. (Approximately equal to 10.5 London Buses - see above)

Unit of Area
1 Football pitch (see above)
More tricky.  Legally it can be 45m to 92m wide.  Mostly they are about 70m
So the area should be around 116m x 70m = 8120 m²,  0.8 hectares or 2 acres.
The last person who understood acres was a ploughman who died in Lincolnshire in 1826 at the age of 83, and he had forgotten everything he once knew a long time before.

Unit of very large volume, or area, or possibly both, or something very big anyway.
1 Wembley Stadium
90,000 crowd - which is a lot of people, so they need 2,618 toilets [that is actually true !]
40,000 m² roof area = 4 hectares, which very few people really understand, so let’s call it nine and three quarters acres, which absolutely no one does.
“Bowl volume” = 1.1million m³ - or 440 Olympic sized swimming pools.  (see above)    I knew that unit would be useful.
“Wembley Stadium filled to a depth of 10 feet”.  No one has ever been able to understand this but it is clearly a very, very big amount, and would take 100 workmen a very long time to clear away or dig out, or pump away, or dispose of in some other unspecified manner

Unit of Height (Europe)
1 Eiffel Tower
1,000 ft = 325 m

Which is of course a bit smaller than the 

Unit of Height (US)
1 Empire State building
1,200 ft = 380 m.  Not including the antenna sticking out of the top which you can’t really see from the ground, and anyway we think King Kong snapped it off so no one knows whether it’s there any more anyway

Unit of electrical Current
40,000 Volts
The Amp being too difficult to understand, the British Press Unit is the Tens of Thousands of Volts.   In its most frequent form it is expressed as 40,000 volts.   This is clearly a lot, and clearly very dangerous, and obviously always fatal.
The crackling sound caused by combing your hair on a dry day is 10,000 volts, and wearing a combination of nylon shirt and woollen jumper can build up 40,000 volts when you take them off.

Shocking !

I'm quite used to these measurements.

PR companies are particularly drawn to them.

It was like dining in your garden = trotting from your postage stamp sized garden back into your house to check all is well (carefully and responsibly avoiding the water features).

Distance travelled = nonsense.

Ellen52 wrote:I believe Eddie and Keela had many successful missions prior to their work helping in the search for Madeliene  and I  am sure I heard on the radio how successful they had been the following year searching at the Jersey Childrens home, I find it difficult to believe their reliability is being questioned. 

Very much agree! Funny though, how they only seem to be unreliable when cases involving children are concerned!!!

How Raider the therapy dog comforted the house of horrors children and sat beside them in court as they tearfully told of years of torture and starvation at the hands of their parents

With Raider, a gold-colored Labrador (above) by their side, Jennifer, 30, and Joshua, 27, described how their parents, David Turpin (bottom right inset), 57, and his wife, Louise (bottom left inset), 50, inflicted years of torture and abuse on them and their 11 siblings. The two adult children have had Raider by their side throughout the legal ordeal of the past year. One of children reportedly asked authorities to allow Raider into the courtroom on Friday to be with them during their parents' sentencing. When they gave testimony about the abuse they suffered at the hands of their parents, they took turns petting him.

I saw them in the news yesterday. Don't mean to go off topic but I was reminded of how when Marc Dutroux was caught, initially Sabine Dardenne defended him. Even in the most awful situations that kind of stockholm situation sets in. The captor (or in this case vile parents) becomes God as well as abuser because survival rests on them. Sad.

Police dogs can go 'undercover' too! 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1125061042923540480

Police dogs detected the smell of human remains on 2 cars at the home of a missing North Carolina girl who has bone cancer and a prosthetic leg.

Magnificent seven hero police dogs win 'animal OBEs' for their work clearing the streets after Westminster Bridge and Borough Market terror attacks

Hero police dogs who worked in the aftermath of the London terror attacks have been honoured for their service with an award dubbed the 'animal OBE'.
The PDSA Order of Merit was presented to the dogs and their handlers for their work after the Westminster Bridge, London Bridge and Borough Market attacks of 2017.
The seven were chosen from a group of 19 honoured by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) at the Honourable Artillery Company in Finsbury, north London, today.
Retired 10-year-old labrador Bruno was among four British Transport Police (BTP) dogs who searched for explosive devices after the Westminster Bridge attack.

His handler PC Robert Smith said he was happy to see Bruno rewarded as the dogs are often 'unsung heroes' during police operations.
Asked about the way the dogs work, he said: 'It's all planned reward, the training, they associate the smell with finding a tennis ball.
'That's what he thinks in his mind he'll be getting at the end of each search. They wouldn't do it if they didn't want to. It's pretty much a game to them.'

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Armed police walk with a detection dog through the streets around Borough Market after the 2017 terrorist attack


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Marci with handler PC Neil Billany (left) and Ollie with his handler PC Anna Marie Charnley (right) receive their much-deserved awards today
Following the London Bridge and Borough Market attacks in June 2017, six dogs from the BTP and eight from the Metropolitan Police worked to support officers.
BTP General Purpose Dog Teams worked at the scene alongside firearms officers for more than 13 hours to clear the streets, buildings and public areas.
Springer spaniel Kai acted as an explosive detection dog alongside Alfie, Dave, Poppy and Robson from the Metropolitan Police to undertake a systematic search of the area.

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The PDSA Order of Merit, instituted in 2014, recognises animals who show outstanding devotion to their owner
Kai was relatively inexperienced at 18 months old and had only qualified in November 2016.
Handler Jean Pearce said: 'It's good to see Kai honoured. The dogs are often forgotten, but they played a key role in dealing with the attack.'
The PDSA Order of Merit, instituted in 2014, recognises animals who show outstanding devotion to their owner.
There have been 28 recipients of the award - 18 dogs and 10 horses.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7087355/Hero-police-dogs-win-animal-OBEs-work-clearing-streets-London-terror-attacks.html

Domestication of Dogs

The dog is a subspecies of the gray wolf.  The dog was the first domesticated animal, and it has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and pet animal in history.  While the first dogs were domesticated thousands of years ago, most existing dog breeds have been in existence for only a few hundred years, having been artificially selected/bred for particular morphology and behaviors for specific functional roles.  Through this selective breeding, the dog subspecies has been diversified into hundreds of variant breeds.   Consequently, they possess more behavioral and morphological variations than any other land mammal.

History of Dogs 

Since Roman times humans have used canines for security and hunting.  The Romans and the Spanish conquistadors used dogs in times of war.  More recently, the British, German and American military forces have benefited from canine/soldier teams.  During wartime, dogs were trained for certain important roles: sentry dog, scout or patrol dog, messenger dog, or mine dog.  About 1,500 dogs were used as sentries in the Korean War.  During the Vietnam War, American troops used dogs to clear caves and tunnels of the Vietcong, as well as to find booby traps and land mines.  After the wars, the dogs were rehabilitated and returned to the people who loaned them to the military.

History of Police Canines around the World

Dogs have been used by law enforcement agencies for over 100 years.  The English used bloodhounds while searching for Jack the Ripper in 1888, and during that time they allowed canines to accompany bobbies (police) on  patrol.  In 1899, in Ghent, Belgium, police started formally training dogs for police work.  This enhanced the popularity of using dogs for police work.  By 1910, Germany had police dogs in over 600 of their largest cities.  In 1938, South London introduced two (2) specially trained Labrador Retrievers to the Metropolitan Police Force to accompany bobbies on patrol.

In the 1970’s the use of dogs in law enforcement took a foothold in the United States.  Now they are considered a part of the police force, and in many departments they even have their own badges.  From the hundreds of dog breeds, there are some that are widely known for their presence in law enforcement.  The most widely trained dog for regular patrol work is the German Shepherd. Other exemplary breeds include--but are not limited to--the Labrador Retriever, Belgian Malinois, and the Dutch Shepherd.  Certain breeds have been used for special purposes, such as detecting illegal drugs or explosives, and tracking fugitives or missing persons.

Police Dogs and Training

Dogs for Law Enforcement believes a well-trained canine team is essential to deterring criminal activity and for assisting police departments in locating illegal drugs and explosives, in tracking fugitives, and with finding missing persons.  Our goal at Dogs for Law Enforcement is to assist police departments in purchasing trained police canines through established vendors who provide excellent service and warranties.  Another goal is to sponsor seminars for canine teams to attend around the nation to enhance a canine team's working ability.




German Shepherd:  The breed originated in Germany.  Shepherds are often preferred by law enforcement because of their strength, intelligence, teachability and obedience.  German Shepherds around the world are often utilized in the detection of narcotics and explosives.  They are also used in the tracking and apprehension of human suspects.



Labrador Retriever:  Labrador, or Lab for short, is one of several kinds of retrievers (a type of gun dog). Even-tempered and well-behaved around young children and the elderly, Labradors are athletic and playful, and they are a very popular dog breed. Labradors are frequently trained for detection work in law enforcement and for tracking of human suspects. However, they are not used for suspect apprehension.



Belgian Malinois:  The Malinois or Belgian shepherd dog is a breed of dog that is recognized in the United States under the name Belgian Malinois.  It is used as a working dog for tasks including detection of odors from narcotics, explosives, and accelerants (for arson investigation), and for the tracking of humans and suspect apprehension in police work.



Dutch Shepherd:  The Dutch Shepherd dog is a herding dog of Holland origin.  The Dutch Shepherd is used as a working dog for tasks including odor detection from narcotics and explosives, and for tracking of humans and suspect apprehension in police work.



Giant Schnauzer:  The Giant Schnauzer is a working breed developed in Germany in the 17th century. It is the largest of the three breeds of Schnauzer. Originally bred to assist on farms by driving livestock to market and guarding the farmer's property, the breed eventually moved into the city, where it worked as a guard dog. It was unknown outside of Bavaria until it became popular as a military dog during World War I and World War II.  Giant Schnauzers have been used for odor detection of narcotics and explosives, and for tracking of humans and suspect apprehension in police work.

https://dogsforlawenforcement.org/index.php/police-canines-in-history/

Sniffing out cancer, transforming autistic children's lives and even warning about imminent seizures:


The miracle dogs who do what doctors cannot  ()

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7196059/How-medical-assistance-dogs-transform-peoples-lives.html

A dog commented –
" Doctors are notoriously unreliable"

So is McCann supporter Simon Cowell

Last year BGT had Kate's charity choir on the show, this year he had a very good & heroic police dog named Finn who survived injuries from stab wounds in the chest as he jumped in to protect his colleague & handler.  A very reliable dog imo