Can dogs detect pirated CDs, DVDs?
By lieanat
@lieanat (1137)
Malaysia
June 8, 2008 7:21pm CST
I just saw a news in the newspaper this morning regarding a dog which is well trained passed away today. This dog is well trained in detecting pirated CDs, DVDs and stuff. The dog is going to assist the police and related workforce to catch and destroy those piracy activities in the country.
So, I am so surprised that dog can be trained like that. Do you country has such kind of dogs? Do you know how they train them?
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@theproperator (2429)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I'm sure the dog is just able to find DVDs by the plastic smell or something.I'm betting all DVDs, legal or not, smell the same to him. It is the fact that he can find them when people try to smuggle the items in packages or luggage without declaring the items that helps the authorities find the pirated items.
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@Lavender_Breeze (373)
• United States
9 Jun 08
These dogs are trained to detect the polycarbonate used in DVDs and CDs. They cannot differentiate between pirated and regular DVDs and CDs. They can, however, detect the polycarbonate and alert officers that a package has DVDs or CDs when it is marked as something different.
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@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I don't know if the US has these dogs or not but I have heard this before and found it very interesting. I guess that it would be possible since they can teach dogs to find lots of different things. I have seen in my city the police training the K-9 unit dogs and it is very neat how they have all these different commands.
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@Anticipator (45)
• Estonia
9 Jun 08
Umm, so, like, pirated CDs smell differently than real ones? :)
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