After a lot of asking it seems that Lace made an assertion unsupported by evidence that Eddie was trained as a rescue dog. Sadie then repeated this assertion as a fact. I await Lace's evidence with interest, as I can find nothing saying Eddie was ever retrained.
Before you start getting haughty, may I remind you that I said let's ask Lace when she comes in. Have you conveniently forgotten that?
Unfortunately she came in today whilst I was away, but despite that, I do have evidence for you that Eddie was trained as a search dog and alerts to parts of living humans.
Lace may well be able to add to these.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7263355.stm-snip -
The dogs have been used by police forces across the world and were called in to help with the Madeleine McCann investigation.
Both are springer spaniels, but the breed is no better suited to the job than any other. A dog just needs to show a keen sense of smell and it's the training that makes them good enhanced victim recovery dogs, says Mr Grime.
Eddie was bred by a specialist search-dog breeder and Keela came from the West Midlands Police breeding programme.
Both live with Mr Grime and have a normal life outside of work. He is currently training two new dogs, Morse and Lewis.
In the Jersey case, parts of a child's body were found on Saturday. The remains are thought to date from the early 1980s. Police have yet to say whether they are male or female.
[Thanks to Ferryman and Carana][And also today: thanks to Brietta]
Eddie also alerted to semen, blood, milk teeth and coconut in Haute de la Garenne.
In fact, in the video I watched there were few places Eddie didn't alert.
I am not about to trawl thru all the Haute de Garenne videos, but Briettas word is good enough for me .... As Laces word was too
Satisfied now, Gunit, that Eddie is also a search and rescue dog as well as a Forensic Search Dog ?
To remind you
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.Eddie was double trained. Brilliant nose tho he has, unhappily he is a flawed dog, because of this double training, for a Forensic Search Dog
It clearly states that as a Forensic Search Dog, he MUST NEVER have been trained to locate any scent other than that of decomposed human tissue. .... but he has !