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> Dogs Search for Victims, Paying Back Thais
> January 09, 2005 8:42 PM EST
> KHO KHAO, Thailand - Thailand has turned to three members of a crack
> military team to help recover from the tsunami disaster - Maklua, Makok
> and
> Bua Daeng, a trio of bomb-sniffing dogs who once roamed the streets as
> strays.
> Nearly two years ago, King Bhumibol Adulyadej suggested there were better
> uses for strays than rounding them up and killing them. He proposed that
> the dogs be trained to detect bombs and drugs.
> The monarch also inspired the idea to use the dogs to help with the rescue
> effort after the titanic wave engulfed coastal areas, said Prime Minister
> Thaksin Shinawatra.
> "His Majesty advised that Thai dogs can work better in rough areas than
> imported foreign dogs, so I ordered the army to deploy Thai dogs to help
> search for dead bodies," Thaksin said.
> There are several dozen former strays in military service, but Maklua,
> Makok and Bua Daeng were the most immediately available for the search
> operation.
> The dogs' small size and agility makes it easier for them than for humans
> to sniff around in the nooks and crevices of debris and the tangle of
> mangrove swamps.
> Already highly disciplined, they still needed a crash course in sniffing
> out human remains, so they were trained with pieces of rotting pork.
> "The dogs will help recover bodies that humans could not immediately see
> with their own eyes," said Capt. Phuthiphong Jaengsuk, chief of the army's
> dog search unit.
> Late last week, they were deployed to Kho Khao island, where 70 people
> were killed and 300 remain missing from a population of just more than
> 1,000.
> Thailand's overall death toll is almost 5,300 people, with more than 3,700
> others missing.
> Maklua, Makok and Bua Daeng take the lead as the trainers cling to their
> leashes. It's a difficult task.
> "There is a lot of broken glass, nails and a wet surface, making it
> difficult for the dogs because it could hurt their feet," said Sgt. Samarn
> Nangwong.
> One day last week they had an elephant helping them.
> "They seemed to have very good teamwork. The dogs sniffed for bodies and
> then the elephant used its trunk to remove the debris and get the body
> out,"
> the trainer said.
> "Bua Daeng was frightened at first when he looked up and saw a giant
> elephant standing nearby, but he later worked very well with the
> elephant,"
> he said.
> Some of their discoveries were false leads - a decaying fish or dead
> animal. But the dogs proved their worth by discovering four bodies in two
> days - two policemen, a man in his 40s and a little girl about 6 years
> old.
> "These dogs are strong," said another trainer, Sgt. Thongsuk Sinchareon.
> "These dogs have gone through a lot because they used to have difficult
> lives, eating one day and then starving the next."
>
>
> Marianne Hellemose
> ***Ailurophil***
>
> "the greatness of a nation and it's moral progress,
> can be judged by how its animals are treated"
> Mahatma Ghandi
>
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> Marianne Hellemose
> ***Ailurophil***
>
> "the greatness of a nation and it's moral progress,
> can be judged by how its animals are treated"
> Mahatma Ghandi
>
>