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By Jason Sickles, March 25, 2016 Yhaoo
In the U.S., security officials are partly depending on bomb-sniffing dogs to thwart similar terror plots.
Since the 9/11 attacks, the number of canines deployed to protect the nation’s busiest airports, train stations and other transit centers has surged 400 percent.
A similar strategy is employed across the world. But the global war on terror’s ever-increasing reliance on man’s best friend is presenting a new problem — a deficit of high-quality bomb dogs.
“More developing countries are incorporating detection dog teams into their national security plan,” Cynthia Otto, executive director of the Penn Vet Working Dog Center at the University of Pennsylvania, told Congress earlier this month at a hearing on canines used for homeland security. “The demand for detection dogs has increased to the point that the quality of dogs has suffered and the price has increased dramatically.”
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