Beagle PATROL

This book is a story of detector dogs. Dog's sense of smell is superior to people. Especially, beagles have sense of smell from a thousand to ten thousand times better than people. So, they can scent out various smell. For example, they find contents without open it. And, they can look for baggage with drug. Their sense of smell are useful at airports. But, they can't it from the beginning. They need to training before they are ready to work as a detector dog in airports. Professional instructors of dogs have to teach dogs smell of illegal item and drags and so on. And they teach detector dogs that they sit down if they find illegal items. Dogs often have mistakes. But, instructors are not strongly angry and give dogs advices with joke. I thought that dogs play treasure hunt rather than do serious work.(147words)

Waring,R (2009) Beagle patrol, Heinle cengage learning