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Book: Scent of the Missing

4 The Love Of Animals

The dogs operate on what’s real and present to them right now: scent/no scent, here/not here. It doesn’t take much for them to learn that we need them to find human scent –and not other animals, dropped hamburgers, or unspecified gook. Search dogs don’t work with these kinds of preconceptions. They don’t assume anything is a given.

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