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Lewis Zindel called upon William Weaver to introduce the evening’s speaker.
Tom Clowning, Supervisor of U.S. Customs Narcotic Training Center near Front Royal, revealed in his talk and film the magnitude of this noxious problem and the efficiency of the detector dogs.
In a given period a single dog sniffed out a million dollars worth of drugs. An estimated five percent, a minor fraction of the amount smuggled into the country during the same period.
Even more revealing was the record of a hundred dogs that brought about the arrest of seven thousand one hundred offenders.
Gowning, who has had twenty-five years experience handling and training search dogs both in the army and customs, explained how the dogs are selected. They are chosen based on psychological fitness and keeness of smell. Scientific tests have shown their remarkable ability in this latter area, which is a hundred million times more sensitive than humans.
The selections are made from various breeds of dogs, German Shepherds,
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