Even from the very truncated and badly edited video we have seen its clear the dog handler spent far more time calling the dog back to the McCanns car than to the other cars. If they had spent as much time on the other cars who knows what they may have found?
The full 20 minute video in the car park is worth watching - Mr Grime certainly calls Eddie backto the McCann's car six times more often than any other car.
THe alerts may have been serial errors- incorrect se base recgnised and alerted followd by reinforcement by the handler- watch the videos. Dogs smell the same scent around other McCann possessions and alert again.
I agree, dogs aren't stupid and if they are recalled several times they can learn that a reaction is required and bobs your uncle.
I have great difficulty with the suggestion that the dogs can be 'guided' by their handlers to alert falsely in order to please ( or get a treat )
Take Mr Grimes, as the case in point ... it matters not a jot to him if his dogs alert or not, indeed, them not alerting can be seen as a successful outcome providing the 'non alert' was accurate
It is the accuracy of the dogs that matters to the handler, whether they alert or not ... their, and his, reputation and livelihood depend on it
It is very unfair and utterly insupportable to suggest that Mr Grimes, for some inexplicable reason, 'caused' his dogs to falsely alert in the McCann case
I really have to ask the question. Do you actually understand the adjective "insupportable"? If you do I think it rather odd that you make the statement that a claim about the dogs being guided in the car alerting is insupportable because the claim is totally supported by the video of the event where the extra time devoted to the clearly identifiable McCann car is so obvious.
Mr Grime at the time of the visit to PDL (31 July -8 August 2007) was retiring from the police force and starting up his own company. There is a saying that all publicity is good publicity and from his dogs intervention in PDL he certainly has had a great deal of publicity.
With regard to the timings of the canine searches, most were done in the evening or overnight but the dogs on some occasions were working from 3pm to 5am and for other extended periods. I suppose the aim was to work when it was coolest but surely such strange hours to the dogs would be very unsettling to their normal work patterns?
