Management Integration of a Breeding Program into Training and Deployment of Detector Dogs

Brennan Fraser-Bell

Conference Proceedings, 4th International Working Dog Breeding Association, Melbourne, Australia, Vol. 4, pp. 86-88, 2005


Abstract

Explains how Australian Customs built its own detector dog breeding program to replace donated and purchased dogs. Reports that the program improved selection rates for training from about 1-in-1000 to better than 1-in-2.