Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country’s main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that could become a cost-friendly and quick way to identify infected travelers. Four dogs of different breeds trained by Finlands Smell Detection Association started working Wednesday at the Helsinki ...

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has raised a new unit of assault dogs, which have been trained to work in packs of four to pin down enemy troopers if the force’s patrol teams are attacked, officials said on Thursday. The first batch of about half-a-dozen dogs completed successful training recently at ...

In a study published in PNAS, researchers used conservation biology and genomics to discover that the New Guinea singing dog, thought to be extinct for 50 years, still thrives. Scientists found that the ancestral dog population still stealthily wanders in the Highlands of New Guinea. This finding opens new doors ...

If you were looking to adopt an intelligent and cute puppy that you could play with, go on walks together, and who would also protect you & your home by being the most vigilant guard, then you must look no further than the German Shepherd. German Shepherd is perhaps the ...

An officer with the police dog squad was about to adopt Koovi when the department decided to adopt her. Ajith Madhavan was understandably disheartened when he learned that he would not be able to bring Koovi home. Koovi, the dog who found the dead body of her two-year-old owner Dhanushka ...

This is the story of four dogs, and while, like all dog stories, it is about love, devotion, and duty, it isn’t a happy one. The four dogs have been a constant presence at Rajamalai in Kerala’s Idukki district, the site of a landslide that has claimed at least 45 ...

Police in Chile is training dogs to detect people that may be infected with the novel coronavirus by sniffing their sweat. The dogs three golden retrievers and a labrador are between the ages of four and five. Until now they have been used to sniff out illicit drugs, explosives, and ...

The dogs are already trained to detect odors of certain cancers, malaria, and Parkinson’s disease by the charity Medical Detection Dogs. The first phase of the trial will be led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, along with the charity and Durham University. It has been backed ...

As frontline warriors engage in a dogged battle with Covid-19, it turns out that their rewards can be lower than a dog trainer. Gujarat Police has issued an advertisement seeking a senior training consultant, a junior training consultant, and a veterinary doctor for their dog (K-9) squad. The appointees to ...

A sniffer dog attached to the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) in the Nilgiris died of liver problems on Tuesday. Named Holfer, the Belgian shepherd was successfully deployed to crack many wildlife cases in MTR and other reserve forests. According to KK Kaushal, field director, MTR, the five-year-old dog had contracted ...