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

The nose knows....

Dad was still in his car when the dog got excited.

Surely this tells you all you need to know about the senses of a dog.

Italian Lifeguard Dogs Courageously Jump Out Of Helicopters To Save Countless Lives












https://woofwoof.tv/italian-lifeguard-dogs-courageously-jump-out-of-helicopters-to-save-countless-lives/?fbclid=IwAR3BvtvGeCuqTI406_GBPHeghhLSULCNdSRaYvU9kZggPPUCB5psIVxtsrc

https://twitter.com/DC_PoliceDogs/status/1330562630977720321

Failed drug dog gives police an emotional high

John Simpson, Crime Correspondent
Monday November 30 2020, 12.01am GMT, The Times


Dexter, who failed his sniffer dog training, has become the force’s first “wellbeing dog”
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE

Earlier this year Dexter’s police career was in tatters. Having flunked his training as an elite sniffer dog for being “too sociable”, the black labrador was expected to leave the force.

Now, months later, he has earned a place in Scotland Yard’s history books and even been given an audience with Dame Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police commissioner.

Dexter, who lacked focus and was too “gregarious” to make the cut as a search dog, has become the force’s first “wellbeing dog”.

PC Mike Sheather, his handler, is an experienced frontline officer with specialist mental health and trauma training who takes Dexter to meet officers and staff ranging from counterterrorism and firearms units to neighbourhood bobbies.

“He was destined to be a drugs dog. Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for us, he didn’t make it,” PC Sheather said. “He’s got a really good nose on him, it’s just that his personality didn’t lend itself to being a drugs dog. He’s just too good around people. He got withdrawn because he was too sociable.

“He also started to show signs of distress in training. If a dog isn’t settling or isn’t happy in their role it’s our duty to take them out. It was like one of my old school reports — lacked focus, immature, concentration issues. They actually used the word gregarious.”

PC Sheather came up with the idea of using Dexter as a wellbeing dog while speaking about the labrador to a colleague in a pub garden. Inspired by the use of combat stress dogs in the US army, Dexter’s effect — evidenced by his ability to bring a smile to the face of the most gnarled detective or beat cop — is actually supported by research. Studies have found that interactions with pets, such as stroking a dog, help to release oxytocin in humans, which has been referred to as the love hormone or the cuddle chemical.

Importantly for PC Sheather, oxytocin helps to balance out cortisol, the hormone associated with stress. During the first wave of the virus in May he took Dexter to meet police members of the pandemic multi-agency response team (Pmart), many of whom had been given the task of sitting with dead bodies having been moved from office-based roles. “They were going into the community, recording ‘life extinct’ and preparing the bodies for collecting,” he said.

At first, PC Sheather and a colleague had taken dogs from the training school to the Pmart hubs. “We saw first-hand how successful dogs are at raising morale,” he said. “They had been doing it for two or three months when I took Dexter around.”

At Lewisham police station in south London last week Dexter chased tennis balls around the room while his handler gave officers a presentation on stress, trauma and how to seek support.

PC Sheather, who has served in the Met’s territorial support group — units often called on to assist in serious cases of violence and disorder — received a commendation in 2011 after he and his partner confronted a gunman. His partner was shot and wounded but PC Sheather and his German shepherd, Boz, chased and detained the suspect.

“I still blame myself for letting him [my partner] get in front,” PC Sheather said. “The dog handler should always be in front.”

He chose to become more heavily involved with mental health support in policing after personal grief and loss was compounded by being sent to bleak crime scenes. He referred to his past depression using the phrase coined by Sir Winston Churchill: “the black dog”.

He and Dexter have been such a success that the programme will be extended. There are also discussions about appointing an officer as the national lead for wellbeing dogs.

Although some have dogs on their wellbeing schemes, no other force has a serving officer running a scheme like the Met’s and Dexter is now considered the “gold standard”, PC Sheather said.

As the presentation came to an end and Dexter vanished into an evidence room, it was obvious that the black dog in PC Sheather’s life was of a rather less menacing kind.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/ex-drug-dog-gives-police-an-emotional-high-3ltp9rv8h

What a hero !

Cuddle Dog - for all the right reasons.

It just goes to show that if a dog is found to be "unreliable" in any way, shape, or form, that they are taken out of the training program....and are not head-hunted by the FBI to go work for them.

What do you say about that Professor McCann?

Awkward !!!

Clever doggy .

@Jill Havern wrote:It just goes to show that if a dog is found to be "unreliable" in any way, shape, or form, that they are taken out of the training program....and are not head-hunted by the FBI to go work for them.

What do you say about that Professor McCann?

Perhaps Kate should have had a Cuddle Dog instead of a Cuddlecat . It would have helped when she was suffering from a deep depression 

( cough cough !) 

Dogs however are very good judges of character , didn't she ( allegedly ) get bitten by one on her run with Matt ? 

I doubt the twins would be allowed a puppy as a pet , and one Cat in the house would certainly be enough 

The fuzz: A litter of cocker spaniel puppies born at the West Midlands police dog training centre are all named after TikTok stars. Charli, Dixie, Avani, Noah, Millie Belle, Chase and Addison, born last month, will train to work with the force

And guess what Spaniels will be trained to detect . . .

I'm waiting for a spaniel to arrive in Emmerdale to sniff the vicar  

A VC’s best friend

James Reynolds, with his faithful dog Dick, attends to James Walton at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, in a painting by Alphonse de Neuville

SIR – After the battle of Rorke’s Drift (Letters, December 19), apart from the 11 VCs for valour, the Dickens Medal was awarded to Dick, the fox terrier of Surgeon Reynolds VC (above, from Alphonse de Neuville’s painting, attending to the wounded soldier James Dalton VC). Dick’s citation spoke of his “never wavering as shots and spears fell around, only leaving Reynolds’s side once, to bite a Zulu who came too close”.
Hamish Watson
Marlborough, Wiltshire

Spectator participation?





Clever doggy!

AUTHORITIES in Antequera, Malaga have unveiled a statue which pays tribute to Ajax, the Guardia Civil dog who prevented a terrorist attack.
The statue is located at the new urban park opposite the Jardines de la Negrita.
The German Shepherd had received several awards for preventing a terrorist attack in 2009 and died in 2013 in Antequera. He had worked protecting Spain’s top politicians and the Royal Family.

Gunner the puppy becomes a sheriff "deputy" after his alligator escape

German sniffer dogs detect COVID-19 with 94% accuracy


https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/german-sniffer-dogs-detect-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-canine?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_scheduler&utm_term=Germany&utm_content=13/02/2021+18:45&fbclid=IwAR0UVfWGzHp4ubRt35gkX-MYpo-8anD5sq_83BokLSF2R9N3B35LhL0ORBk



Only 94% accuracy   bit unreliable innit?

I bet it's more reliable than a COVID-19 test .

Ask Gerry McCann, he'll know - he was there and he knows the science!

Hiker found alive in Italian Alps thanks to dog after week in sub-zero conditions

Loyal pup Ash cuddled up with Michele Benedet to give him warmth after his owner broke his ankle


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/19/hiker-found-alive-italian-alps-thanks-dog-week-sub-zero-conditions/

Awkward !!!

Major and Champ: Joe Biden's dogs moved out of White House

Published

2 hours ago


German shepherds Major (top) and Champ were the first pets to live in the White House in four years

Joe and Jill Biden's German shepherds have been removed from the White House after the younger dog, Major, reportedly bit a security agent.

According to US media, the pets have been sent back to the Biden family home in Wilmington, Delaware.

It follows Major's aggressive behaviour towards White House staff.

The Bidens adopted three-year-old Major in 2018. He became the first dog from an animal shelter to live in the White House.

Their other dog, Champ, is 13.

Anonymous sources told CNN that Major had been jumping, barking and charging at White House staff and security.

Both dogs moved into the White House four days into Joe Biden's presidency.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56331268
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You can always trust a dog's instinct - ain't that right Mr Biden?

Joe and Jill    thank goodness he wasn't christened Jack.

Check out the confidence and skill of these dogs...!

I love one of the comments: "Your move, cat owners"

So here it is:



I think the cat wins to be fair 

Thank you for this video.

I am teaching my grandchild Spanish, so at his next Spanish adventure this Wednesday, he will be encantado (enchanted) to watch this clip.

Police dog hailed a hero after handler makes multiple arrests in a single shift

A heroic police dog has been rewarded with a plate full of treats after helping arrest four suspects from three different incidents in less than four hours.

Mar 30, 2021

PC Fegan and PD Max

Northumbria Police dog Max had a busy night shift with handler Police Constable Adam Fegan after responding to two burglaries and preventing a dangerous driver from abandoning their vehicle.

The first call to action came at 1am on Monday (March 29) when the pair were deployed to a suspected burglary at the Cycle Garden Café in Nuns Moor Park in Newcastle. An alarm at the property had been activated so Max was deployed in the area and quickly tracked down a suspect hiding behind a nearby tree.

He was arrested by PC Fegan and taken into custody, but just before 2.55am the pair were called into action once again.

They were deployed to search for intruders who had allegedly broken into the General Hospital site on Westgate Road in the west end of Newcastle. Max and PC Fegan were on the scene within minutes and searched the grounds of the hospital before locating two men hiding in a bush. A haul of stolen copper was recovered nearby.

Two hours later the pair were deployed to Blakelaw where motor patrols officers had been in pursuit of a vehicle that had failed to stop. The occupants had abandoned the car in the area and so PC Fegan and his dog were immediately dispatched to track them down.

Within minutes a man believed to have been a passenger in the vehicle was tracked down by Max and arrested on suspicion of robbery.

PC Fegan, of Northumbria Police’s Dog Section said Max is due to retire later this year but still shows no signs of slowing down.

He said: “Max absolutely loves his job and it is an absolute pleasure to spend a cold night on shift trying to catch up with him as he tracks down suspected criminals. He is due to retire later this year but has shown no signs that he wants to slow down and the fact he had four arrests in just one night is very impressive.

“Max definitely earned his treats and we are just glad that we have been able to support our response officers, bring suspects into custody and secure a haul of stolen property. I have no doubt that when he returns to duty this evening he will be determined to continue that good work and help keep our communities safe.”