Sadie you keep saying people kept pigs and were slaughtering them and cutting them on their kitchen table. Do you have any figures giving how many people in Portugal kept pigs and also what has this got to do with the dogs alerts. TY
1) We know that people kept pigs. No need for figures.
To have meat to eat, they would need to with such low wages. In 2010, the median minimum wage was only £5,719
2) The dogs, Eddie at least, was exclusively trained on baby piglet carcases. This is where he learned what he had to alert to, which was cadaravine. The odour of dead baby piglets was the thing to alert to and then get his reward.
According to documents provided on this forum, once a dog is taught and learns something, he NEVER unlearns it. I am sorry but I am not wasting my time searching for that ... but most people on here have seen it.
The long and short of this is that he will remember his training and alert to baby pork. On this forum too, it was stated in documents/ reports that cadavar dogs are used to trace dead burned bodies in the bush fires of the USA.
Pigs and humans aparantly smell very alike.