it seems sarx disagrees with oriah:
from the HRT thread pg. 1:
Originally Posted by nursebeeme
I will go first (based on some questions I have seen other posters ask on the other thread)
1) are there differences in cadaver dogs?
2) what kind do the fbi use?
3) can cadaver dogs hit on urine and blood?
oriah's responses:
1. The difference is in the training largely and level of training. Though there are historical remains detection dogs as well, which is a specialty of HRD and involves working with archeological aspects and remains that are hundreds of years old.
2. What kind don't the FBI use? They've got a lot of resources.
3. HRD dogs should not be hitting on anything that comes from a living body.
I am seeing conflicting information on the HRD dogs. Here is another repost of a post I brought over from the HRD thread. In this one, Oriah seems to be indicating that if you had an accident and bled on a surface, an HRD dog might hit on that
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Originally Posted by Abby Normal
So they hit on decomposing humans AND blood that came from a living human being? In the two years we've lived here, we had a fall which resulted in stitches (head wound) as well as a
bad bloody nose that occurred while I was in the shower (meaning I didn't get there quick enough).
So at my house there are at least two spots on our floor that may get a "hit" by a cadaver dog even though everyone in our home is living?
Possibly. It would largely depend on what kind of surface the blood was deposited on.
For example, I too had an injury in the past year that produced a lot of blood inside a residence. Actually it was a trail from outside to inside, which may help explain even further.
In my situation; there was blood deposited on grass, then on dirt, then on cement, then on sealed hardwood floors, then on tile, then on a towel, then on stainless steel.
We cleaned everything up, of course- but certain surfaces retain HR scent particles (such as blood) much longer than others. The concrete, for example.
Scrubbed it with bleach and can't see a thing. But one of our HRD dogs will still hit on it if we put him to work.The tile? Scrubbed that too- but the grout retains the scent. He'll hit on that also. The sealed hardwood floors- no. The towel we threw away, so I've no idea, lol. If we hadn't thrown it away, I guarantee he'd be hitting on that. The stainless steel- no. But that's because it is a sink, and not a sealed stainless steel container.
Sorry about all the bolded, but read this post carefully.
