dogs

Monday July 18, 2011

The Two-Way

Add Semen To List Of Evidence Dogs Can Sniff Out

July 18, 2011 • There's word from Sweden of a police dog who has been trained to help hunt down sex offenders by sniffing out evidence of semen at crime scenes.

Wednesday February 2, 2011

Dogs Earn More Cred For Sniffing Out Cancer

Panda, a Border Collie sniffer dog, checks out samples at the Dogs Against Cancer and For Life Foundation in Hungary. Barnabas Honeczy/AP hide caption

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Shots - Health News

Dogs Earn More Cred For Sniffing Out Cancer

February 2, 2011 • In the last five years, dogs of different breeds and ages have shown over and over they can smell cancer on the breath and in tissue samples from cancer patients. But scientists are still unsure about what the dogs are smelling.