Forensic Search Dog
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.
http://www.csst.org/forensic_evidence_canines.html
Anyone who thinks that a 7 year old dog would still be used if he alerted to the above substances is flying in the face of logic imo.
From the above link:
1) There is a significant potential for a dog handler to offer unintentionally misleading or improper testimony about the presence or absence of residual scent from decomposed human tissue.Quite!
And in your post, you make a very pertinent point.
Grime, indeed, states (in his PdL profile) that Eddie (at the time Grime wrote it) was aged 7.
Grime is (purported) to have taken Eddie to America for this (alleged) 'enhanced' training in the New Year 2006.
Assuming Grime wrote his PdL profile in 2007, Eddie's age would have been the same as the last digit of the year, meaning (in 2005-6) Eddie would have been aged about 5 or 6 and then (certainly) 18 months from retirement as a
police dog (even if he continued to work privately for Grime some time thereafter).
If we (in England) are going to indulge the expense and hypocrisy of sending dogs to America to be trained in ways outlawed as illegal and unethical
in England, why would we indulge that expense and hypocrisy on a dog, at the time Eddie is supposed to have gone, aged about 5 or 6, and 18 months from retirement from police service?
