Clever dogs

I watched Animal Planet the night before and I was amazed at what else dogs can do.



The police in a town in America suspected that one man had murdered his friend but because they could not find the body there was no evidence and he could not be charged. They felt that the body must have been buried somewhere in the man's farm but they found that almost the whole field had been dug up earlier by the suspect with an excavator. The police tried hard but could not find the body. Finally they decided to get the help of trained dogs. Three dogs were called in. All the three dogs behaved in the same way. They stopped under a clump of thick trees at a heap of earth. They sniffed the air continuously. The police had their excavator and began to dig. They dug about 2 metres deep and they found bags of rotten meat which was very very smelly. The dogs were still not excited. ( we were told that the dogs have been trained to respond only when they smell human bodies). But the dogs stayed at the spot and continued sniffing and scatching even after the rotten meat had been removed. The trainers felt that the police should dig deeper. When they dug about 10 feet deep( about 3 metres ) they discovered the body of the victim. The man was charged with murder and sentence to many years jail.

Without the help of the dogs the police would not have dug that deeply for the recovery of a body as the usual depth a body is buried is about 2 metres deep.



Here is another example of how amazing a dog can be. 2 aeroplanes collided in the air and in each plane was a pilot and a trainee pilot. Both planes crashed into the sea off America's coast. One plane and the 2 bodies were recovered but the other plane with its passengers were at the bottom of the deep sea and frogmen spent 8 days diving into the bottom to search for the missing plane. They finally gave up and a trained dog was used to try to locate the spot where the plane had sunk. Many people including the captain of the boat that took the dog and its trainer were sceptical. How could a dog find the bodies in the water especially salt water that was so deep?



The boat carrying the dog travelled in straight lines to cover the "big square" where the plane was suspected to be starting at one side of the "square"and slowly they hoped to cover the whole "square". When the boat passed a particular spot the dog was behaving oddly. It seemed to say that something was beneath in the water. The boat turned and moved from the other direction and each time it passed the same spot the dog behaved the same way. They got the spot charted on the map. This happened the third time too when they got to the spot from a different direction. Indeed they dived in and found the sunken plane!



How did the dog do it? Well, it seems that when the dead body in the sunken plane rot, it gives off some sort of gas and this gas rises to the surface of the water and the dog could smell the gas despite the strong wind , sea water smell etc.



Hope you like this story. I am sure those who have dogs will also have stories to tell - of their intelligence