Do pirated copies of music and movies smell differently? Well, apparently to Flo and Lucky (two Labrador retrievers) they can’t be exact. However, they can find the chemicals used in the process:

“The three-year-old animals - trained by a handler in Northern Ireland who usually teaches dogs to find bombs - can find, but cannot distinguish between, CDs and DVDs, burned and replicated disks, or legitimate and pirate disks.

The dogs take only 10 minutes to check boxes that security officials would have needed a day to examine.”

link: Dogs sniffing out pirate copies

It seems that these dogs are being treated royally, as they should be. It’s not easy fighting crime with just your nose.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
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