Posted By: Cindy Jacobs (Cyd)
This post was sent to me complete with all the link:
“Majority of US Cocaine supply cut with veterinary deworming drug”
My question to Drug Dog searching handlers would be this:
Does being cut with deworming drug, cause search dogs not to detect the drug?
Would love to hear the answer from a K9 handler.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Danielle // Jan 27, 2010 at 6:30 pm
I sent this link to a KSP dog handler maybe he can answer the question.
2 Shawn Podunavac // Jan 27, 2010 at 7:47 pm
If the K9 is trained and imprinted on a pure source of cocaine then in my opinion cutting agents will not cause any problems for the K9. When a dog smells a mixture of odors it is able to smell each seperated odor. While training our dogs we mix cocaine, meth, heroin, and ecstacy and imprint the dog on these odors at the same time. After some training we then seperate the odors and the dogs still alert on them seperately. So I guess my answer is no the cutting agents will not cause the dog to miss the narcotic because the dog smells the odors separately. So it would smell the cocaine odor and the cutting agent as seperate odors even though they are mixed. Hope this helped!
3 Cindy Jacobs (Cyd) // Jan 28, 2010 at 7:38 am
Thanks Danielle for sending it on to Shawn, and thank you Shawn for answering the question for us. I was very curious for sure and am sure several others were also.
Thanks again Shawn.
4 Danielle // Jan 28, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Sweet! Thanks Shawn for answering and explaining it in such detail. I wish the article would have explained it like that.
You are welcome Cindy, anytime!
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