G unit this is a snip of a report by Martin Grime
In my role as advisor to the U.S. Justice Department I have facilitated assessment of numerous cadaver search dog teams in the United States. These dogs are exclusively trained using human cadaver sources. When I introduced decomposing pig cadavers into training assessments 100 % of the animals alerted to the medium. (The products were obtained from whole piglet cadaver not processed food for human consumption). The result from scientific experiments and research to date is suggestive that the scent of human and pig decomposing material is so similar that we are unable to 'train' the dog to distinguish between the two. That is not to say that this may not be possible in the future.
Yes.
Training in England (and in some States of America) is conducted using exclusively pig cadavers and pig cadaver scents.
I don't
think human blood, either, is used in the training of cadaver dogs.
Clearly, if dogs could differentiate human cadaver scent from swine cadaver-scent, the pig would not be an effective training medium.
Pigs
are an effective training medium ....