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Cadaver Dogs are trained to locate and follow the scent of decomposing human flesh, that much I know. Having alerted in 5A, are you actually saying that the scent the dog alerted to was from an alive/dead person? Sort of like someone suffering from gangrene?
Hi Carol
Welcome by the way.
Hope this helps you
http://csst.org/forensic_evidence_canines.htmlWe call Eddie a Cadavar dog but in actual fact he is a
Forensic Search Dog.However, originally he was trained as a search dog for living humans so he would have been trained as a
Decomp Dog A term used to describe a canine that will indicate when a scent source is living human tissue, blood, semen, urine, feces, and materials that have been handled and worn by humans.
A dog can never be detrained to forget what he has earlier been trained so he is likely to alert to living human tissue, blood, semen, urine , feces and materials that have been handled and worn by humans as well as scents sourced from decomposing human tissue.
What a brilliant nose he has, but it seems that he is flawed because he may alert to living as well as decomposing bodies etc. It clearly states in the
Forensic Search Dog. section that a FSD should never have been crosstrained.
Eddie was.
Forensic Search Dog (The primary focus of this paper)
A canine that has been
specifically trained to indicate a scent source as being from decomposed human tissue.
Such animals are also trained to exclude (deconditioned to) the scent of human urine, feces, and semen and will not alert on residual scent from a live human; and have never been trained to locate any scent other than that of decomposed human tissue. Hope this helps. Eddie the dog that we call a Cadavar Dog is actually
Forensic Search Dog and a
Decomp Dog.
Because of this he might alert to
living matter, such as blood, urine, feces semen etc from a living person as well as
Decomposed matter from a dead person
Sorry, but because of his cross training it seems that this brilliant dog, Eddie, wasn't up to the task in hand.
He was also trained on dead pigs, so it is likely that he would alert to Dead pig, I think.
It is a complicated subject and we are still learning. Hope this helps you.