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What can sniffer dogs smell?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I am a police dog handler and worked a drugs dog for many years, they are trained to find all known illegal drugs including the date rape drug rhohypnol (that might not be the correct spelling). We have dogs that can search buildings and vehicles and others that do people (in a line such as at an airport).
We have other dogs that can search for explosives and others that search for firearms.
You can try country boys advice with the aniseed but it does'nt work!
Dogs can identify different smells within a smell, unlike us, dogs see a mass of smells as we see a picture with lots of different images within it.
If you put down aniseed (suggested presumably because of its strong smell) the dog will smell aniseed AND whatever else is in the room. As the dog is trained to find drugs and not aniseed, it will simply ignore the aniseed and indicate the illegal substance.
Try the aniseed though - we like a challenge!!
Never heard of that?
It is my opinion, that nothing can be used to hide a smell, because of the unique way that their nose works, identifiying different scents as opposed to a mixture.
This is certainly how it was explained to me and how I have come to believe it works, I've never heard any mention of anything that can block a smell, especially something as commoplace as coffee!