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their hind legs to check the top row. When a dog wouldn’t immediately stand up, he wasn’t hit or even yelled at. Instead he was encouraged to try again and then praised for making the effort. Physical force and sharp verbal reprimands, the mainstays of inexperienced trainers, are never used in teaching a Customs Service dog.
The dogs learn drug detection as a game and they love their work. This attitude is the result of a unique training approach designed specifically to meet the needs of the canine narcotics detection program. During a 14-week course at the Front Royal Center, trainers channel the dogs’ natural instincts to find and retrieve so slowly that the animals never realize they’re being taught anything. Even after graduation and transfer to one of the major land or sea entry points into the U.S., the dogs still think they’re playing find and fetch for their own amusement.
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