Those unreliable dogs...

Syn (or anyone who knows!)

Do you know whether Eddie and Keela (and Martin) went into apartment 5J? Can't find refernce to this in the PJ files but may have missed it. I know the Spanish tracker dogs reacted strangely there and about the business with the fridge and rotting food.

skyrocket wrote:Syn (or anyone who knows!)

Do you know whether Eddie and Keela (and Martin) went into apartment 5J? Can't find refernce to this in the PJ files but may have missed it. I know the Spanish tracker dogs reacted strangely there and about the business with the fridge and rotting food.

He was definitely not asked to take the dogs to 5J Skyrocket, so you haven't missed any reference to MG and the dogs in the PJ Files.  The GNR dogs reaction was only based on the rotting fridge contents and any dog would have reacted the same. Numi and Kit's only 'reliable' scenting to the Turkish towel scent allegedly used by Madeleine was out on the street near the leisure/carpark area  but as she will have walked passed there with the McCanns on many other occasions to the supermarket and to the creche, the alerts held little value.

'After entering the apartment, it was observed that the odour came from close to the fridge, which was open and contained some rotting meat and vegetables.

During the searches carried out in the apartments no sign of the girl was found by the dogs.'


http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/GNR_SNIFFER.htm




GNR Officer Pedro Miguel Esteves Fernandes said:

'None of the dogs used in this search action, after having smelled the towel, went into block 5 but headed to the zone which gives access to the road between the apartment and the leisure area.'

and  'the missing minor passed that location, on the day of the events or before that date'

Re 5J he said that on 08/05/07, the search action was repeated but was centred on the dogs inside blocks 5 and 4 of the resort.

'Initiating the diligence, the first sniffer dog, after having smelled the towel used in the previous operation, began searching, it being certain that next to the doors of some apartment he demonstrated major interest whilst he did not even approach others. In none of these actions did the dog give him a signal that he had caught the scent of the missing child. It is certain however, that near apartment 5J, 5H and 4G, that the dog showed major interest in smelling the doors and the immediate areas. He states that next to 5H, there were two bags of rubbish which may condition the dog. Just outside apartment 4G was a tray with plates, cutlery and cloth napkins, apparently used. It is certain that this apartment is the one where the missing child's parents were lodged (at the time). In relation to the dog's interest at doorway 5J, the same may have been conditioned by the presence of people inside the apartment.
- After completing the search in the interior of block 5, verandas and apartment access, and whilst in the exterior, the sniffer dog took the same route he had taken on 04/05/07, being the road between that apartment and the leisure area-pool sand restaurant, and headed toward the same parking area. There he lost the scent of the search. This situation may be explained by the fact that the biggest concentration of odours in that location have been preserved and protected from the winds due to the adjoining walls. When this dog got to the main road, he turned right where a large dispersion of odours existed. Here the dog lost the scent.'

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/PEDRO_ESTEVES.htm

Antonio Freitas Silva handler of one of the GNR dogs re the reaction to the scenting in the street said:

'Taking into account the aforementioned results, he states that it can be confirmed with a certain degree of certainty that the missing child passed by that location, on that day or on a previous day. This situation can be explained by the nature of the terrain, that is, it is a small space enclosed by walls and as such lingering scents would take longer to dissipate.'

Re the dogs reaction to 5J he said:

'The dog did not demonstrate to its owner that it had found the scent it was searching for.'

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/ANTONIO_SILVA.htm


All the GNR officers could conclude was that 'Someone' from 5a who used the Turkish towel provided for the GNR dog scent search walked down the street between the apartment and the leisure area on the 03/05/2007 or before that date.

Re 5J both officers gave good reasoning for their dogs interest in 5J and other apartments, and neither concluded that their dogs demonstrated that it had found the scent it was searching for.

Mark Harrison will have used the above intelligence provided by the GNR officers and deemed that it would be of no value to deploy Martin and the dogs to 5J.

Hope this helps :)

Syn - as usual your reply went above and beyond! Much appreciated and yes it did clear up the matter of 5J for me.

skyrocket wrote:Syn - as usual your reply went above and beyond! Much appreciated and yes it did clear up the matter of 5J for me.

Thank you and you are very welcome skyrocket 

Towards the end of the programme, having spent most of it explaining how very similar identical twins were in so many ways besides looks and likes, even when brought up apart, the programme considered their differences. Though DNA was the same and 80%+ of IQ, fingerprints were as different as any other two people's. Moreover specially trained SNIFFER DOGS, when given the scent of one identical twin, could easily distinguish between them. THOSE AMAZING DOGS YET AGAIN.

And in the aftermath of the devastating exposion in Cheshire, England of the wood flour mill, there are four people missing.  As we say in England "presumed dead"  which is code for . . .

Are they asking Gerry and Kate to help ? ? ? /
NO
They are using DOGS. Drawn from three adjacent Police Forces.
And by tomorrow all four victims will have been identified and recovered with proper dignity.

McCanns and your supporters -  be ASHAMED.

I watched a lovely programme on catch up tv last night 'The Secret Life of Twins' all about identical twins. It was interesting, factual and truly heartwarming.

A segment of the programme showed a medical snifferdog called Lacey being set a task to identify the dna of a particular twin. DNA samples of both twins were offered up along with another 5 random DNA samples. The dog was tasked to find only the DNA of 1 twin. Lacey achieved it in seconds.

Here is the itvplayer link. It's at around 29mins.

https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/the-secret-life-of-twins