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TERRA PO Box 293366 Nashville, TN 37229 1.866.927.4601 |
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Training To ensure the most realistic and capable response available, TERRA only trains with actual human remains; no pseudo scent is used in cadaver training. During imprinting, TERRA cadaver dogs are conditioned to offer a passive alert upon finding human decomposition scent in order to not disturb remains. Throughout training they are taught to alert at the strongest concentration of odor they can find. As training progresses, cadaver dogs increase specialization through working with buried, submerged, and dated remains. Handlers are constantly seeking out training in the entire scent spectrum; a fully operational canine must be exposed to realistic amounts of all types of human remains, completely representative of what the dog is trying to find.
Common Uses · Locating a drowning victim in a river, pond, or lake · Locating human remains in a missing persons or homicide case · Locating human remains in the aftermath of a natural or man-made disaster such as a tornado, hurricane, airplane crash, bombing, or flash-flooding
Common Questions Do TERRA cadaver dogs perform passive or active alerts? All TERRA cadaver dogs perform passive alerts in an effort to preserve materials.
Do TERRA cadaver dogs work disaster? While TERRA does not perform “top” work on rubble piles at this time, we will perform recoveries in disaster areas by clearing fields, ravines, lakes, ponds, rivers, creeks, and woods, which is a common service in the event of a tornado, hurricane, flash flood, or airline crash. |
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CADAVER DOG Cadaver dogs are search and recovery canines with special training in finding human decomposition scent and alerting handlers to its location. In particular, cadaver dogs are trained in discovering generic human decomposition scent given off by human cadavers; a cadaver dog specialty is human remains detection, in which dogs have advanced training in response to particle and dated decomposition including body parts, body fluids, and skeletal remains. Cadaver dogs discriminate against other [non-human] biological decomposition. |
