For some clarity here;
1)The dog's main function is scent detection, specifically narcotics.
2)It will not do bite apprehension work.
3)No pit bull has ever been used as a bite apprehension K9 by a US LEA.
4)As for "tracking missing persons", The instances in which a tracking dog would be used for a missing person search are quite limited.
5)The nature of a track is that it degrades quickly, is easily contaminated and most tracking dogs can not work on hard surfaces.
6) TRAILING DOGS and SCENT DISCRIMINATING TRAILING DOGS, are specially trained to work hard surfaces, to ignore cross tracks and contaminating odors and to work aged, degraded and dispersed scents. The most familiar breed to do this is the Bloodhound.
7) The bloodhound's physical characteristics make it eminently suitable for this type of scent work
8) The pit bull's physical characteristics are a deterrent to trailing and a detriment to tracking.
9) A pit bull's effectiveness at tracking will be limited to fresh, uncontaminated tracks on "soft" surfaces. What that means is the pit bull can not track a child that wanders from a house in suburbia, or an alzheimer patient that wanders from a home in an urban environment.
10)Other limitations curbing viable effectiveness include; rain, windy conditions, hail, sleet, snow.
11) Because tracking dogs are trained to find and follow the freshest or strongest scent, unless the dog is ALSO trained to scent discriminate, it will be unable to track where people, vehicles or animals have been in the area and left fresher scent on top of the target track by walking across it, or have left pools of scent across or near the target track via close proximity to it.
12) The most effective and most common method used in missing persons searches is NOT tracking, but AIR SCENT. NASAR requires a SAR K9 to pass 2 TIMED search tests. 1 is 80 acres and the next is 160 acres. This is done off lead with the dog ranging out of sight and being trained to do a refind (take handler to found person).
13)While tracking and trailing can be done off lead they are almost always done on lead. It is physically impossible to thoroughly search 10 acres by tracking, even if it is done off lead. It is impossible to thoroughly search 3 acres by on lead tracking.
14) So, unless the chain of command in this department is insane, the pit bull will ALWAYS be on lead when working narc AND especially when "tracking missing persons" to limit liability.
Thus it is safe to say this pit bull will be "tracking missing persons" just like the average husband will be sewing curtains for the guest room after he mops and waxes the kitchen floor.
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It is impossible to understand why they would accept the risk of using a pit bull, the type of dog known to have killed roughly 30 humans a year over the last five years, when there are numerous breeds that excel at K9 work without the enormous risks associated with pit bulls.
Their decision to accept Kiah as a K9 is a disgraceful public relations gimmick by the Animal Farm Foundation.
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Dayna Hamilton22 June 2017 at 19:53
At least when the K-9 pit goes pit there will be someone close by and accurate with a firearm
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I am refraining from comment for a few minutes. Norski
It is not politically correct to denigrate (oops!) pit bulls.
“2)It will not do bite apprehension work”
However, “bite-off apprehension” it excels at.
That dog’s main purpose is killing things.
Now that's funny !!!
I received this YouTube video from a friend whose a retired LEO.
Amazing Belgian Melanois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUY5Ide98g0&t=7s
I had a friend in Tulsa who had been a police-dog trainer in Germany. She managed the church nursery like you wouldn’t believe.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know already. You hate dogs. Pit Bulls the most.
You can say it a thousand more times but it won’t make it any less of a mental illness and major obsession.
Get over yourself fer cryin’ out! Enough with these dog bashing threads. Enough! Get a freakin’ life. Get a hobby or a boyfriend. Something. Fool around on your husband. Have an affair. Anything but bring hate and discontent to FR.
Crawl back under your rock, Chet99 2.0.
“Thus it is safe to say this pit bull will be “tracking missing persons” just like the average husband will be sewing curtains for the guest room after he mops and waxes the kitchen floor.”
Oh man, you just described me. I’m sad now.
So do basset hounds and teacup poodles....
You couldn’t teach a pit bull to have a restrained bite an hold. The would totally mall anyone they got a hold of. Secondly you would never know when they were going to turn on their handler.
What are we gonna do tomorrow Brain?
Try to rid the world of Pit Bulls Pinki!
Even German Shepherds aren’t all that good at tracking. Pit’s for K-9’s what could go wrong?