Frappy said: I talked to a friend who used to be a K9 officer. Without trying to sound too interested I got some information out of him about drug dogs.
- There are 3 types of trained sniffer dogs. Drug dogs, Citrus Dogs, and Bomb dogs.
- Drug dogs are trained to smell the following: Cocaine/Crack, Heroin, Weed, Methamphetamine, (possibly PCP, I can't remember, but who actually does PCP these days?)
- Dogs absolutely cannot be cross trained between fields. For example, a citrus dog cannot be trained to smell heroin.
- Dogs in general can be trained to smell anything, but drug are very rarely trained to smell more than the standard list of drugs mentioned above.
- I specifically asked about ecstacy and the officer said that standard drug dogs are not trained to recognize ecstacy, however they can smell meth.
- Drug dogs are not normally trained in smelling pharmacuticals, such as xanax, percocet, etc..
- The officer never spoke of drug sniffing dogs recognizing shrooms.
can anyone confirm this? or that the standard k9 is not trained to smell it?
Does leaving windows rolled up on a car matter much, if you have it inside?
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