Dogs can sniff out bowel cancer, even in its early stages, in breath and stool samples with 95 percent accuracy, scientists say. They used a specially trained Labrador retriever to demonstrate the findings. The findings suggest that chemical compounds for specific cancers circulate throughout the body, which opens up the prospect of developing tests to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Labrador’
Labrador can sniff out bowel cancer even in early stage
February 1st, 2011 |
No Comments
Anne Hathaway Adopting New Dog
March 16th, 2010 |
No Comments
Anne Hathaway is shopping for a new dog.
The Oscar-nomianted actress – who is already mom to a beloved two-year-old chocolate Labrador, Esmeralda – accompanied boyfriend Adam Schulman to Molly’s Mutts and Meows volunteer animal rescue center in West Hollywood on Saturday, where the couple checked out several pooches in need of forever homes.
Adam and [...]
Cody The Dog Dismissed From Gig At Gas Station
December 4th, 2009 |
No Comments
Florida health inspectors have ruled that an adorable chocolate Labrador retriever familiar to many regular customers at a Clearwater gas station will no longer be able to join his owner at work.
Wearing a BP logo shirt and name tag, the cute Cody would often draw grins from customers when he greeted them at the drive-through [...]
Clone patrol – sniffer-dogs report for duty in South Korea
July 19th, 2009 |
No Comments
South Korea’s customs service says it has deployed the "world’s first cloned sniffer dogs" to check for drugs at its main airport and border crossings.
Six puppies cloned from a Canadian-born sniffer dog in late 2007 have reported for duty after completing a 16-month training programme.
The clones are all called Toppy, a combination of "tomorrow" and "puppy".
The customs agency says clones help to lower crime-fighting costs as it is difficult to find good sniffer dogs.
Only about 30% of naturally-born sniffer dogs make the grade, but South Korean scientists say that could rise to 90% using the cloning method.
‘Better performance’
"They showed better performance than naturally-born sniffer dogs"
Park Jeong-Heon
Customs spokesman
The new recruits are part of a litter of seven puppies who were cloned from a "superb" drug-sniffing Canadian Labrador retriever called Chase in 2007, officials said.
One dropped out of the training due to an injury.
"They are the world’s first cloned sniffer dogs deployed at work," Park Jeong-Heon, a customs spokesman at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport, told AFP news agency.
"They showed better performances in detecting illegal drugs during the training than other naturally-born sniffer dogs that we have."
The cloning work was conducted by a team of scientists at Seoul National University, who created the world’s first cloned dog – an Afghan Hound named Snuppy.
The state-funded project cost about 300m won ($239,000; £146,000).</p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Rachel Farris: Don’t Get Too Carried Away by PetAirways
July 15th, 2009 |
No Comments
Today marks the first flight for the new PetAirways, a “pets-only” airline that caters only to the four-legged traveler.