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Can drug dogs smell alcohol?

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Most dogs are either trained as drug dogs, bomb dogs, or "patrol dogs" trained to find and apprehend suspects. However dogs can be trained to recognize and alert on any type of odor, but like I said I have never heard of any law enforcement agency training them to find alcohol. read more

Best Answer: If you can smell it, a dog can certainly smell it. But those animals are not trained for that purpose. There's no need to have an expensive dog when the policeman can smell the alcohol perfectly well himself. And remember too that the dogs are only used to speed the search process. read more

Drug dogs will only alert officers to a scent when they are given the order to search, to my understanding. I was told that drug dogs in airports smell drugs for a huge portion of the day but don't go crazy barking or give the cops their signal because they have not been told to search for anything. This seems to be true. read more

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