I've seen alot of terriers that could do the work. Their size will have a handful of pros and cons. I own a Jagdterrier that would be incredible doing some type of detection work. However she is my spoiled little girl and at this point in her life is more interested in treeing squirrels in the backyard.
The Jagdterrier is in my opinion the best little hunting breed in existance.
Just a link from a kennel that breeds Airedales to do work and not just show. One of the stud dogs is a certified drug detection dog. He is the father to my first Airedale. The link is http:www.smartairedales.net/.
There are a few SAR JRTs in the U.S. The Government uses JRTs for snake detection in Guam I think, to keep the Brown Tree Snake from getting shipped off the island. I've done earth work with Borders, Jrts, Jagds, Patterdales, Fells, and a number of "unknown" breeds. My old Border could mantrack but was worked on game to much to be reliable at it. In agreement with Mark, the Jagdterrier has the best nose in the bunch. Just to big for earthwork for the average earth in the U.S.
I have absolutely NO doubt JRTs and others could do anything you train them for as long as you can keep them off game.
hay max,
i can tell you from our exprience with jack russels in explosives detection work.
we had a jack russel up untill five monthes ago working with us, not me personaly but i was taking a part of most of his training.
he was working with us in the GAZA STRIP mostly in all thess places all the large breeds we work with could not work in due to size compulsion.
we used to work with food with him, some thing that worked just fine with him.
he was realy realy GOOD! we were not sure if this will work out at the begining but we were surprised to find out that this li'l guy is doing a realy good job.
so i think the bottom line is i personaly can recomend it only if you are experincing the same problems we had and if not stick to the known breeds such as the german sheperds malinois labrador etc.
any way good luck with what ever you choose...
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I wouldn't go so far as to say that the drive for critters will override the narc training, but certainly critter scents and critters themselves are VERY distracting to the real hunting terriers.
Thats what they have been specifically bred for, catching critter scent and git'n at 'em.
With exactly ZERO training my Jagd would scent and trail/track furry critters with a zeal that a Sunday evangelist could only dream of.
The problem I had with my terriers was hunting them a few years before I tried anything else. With a very young dog, and lots of proofing off of critters, I have no doubt about their abilities to do search work. As far as sticking with the tried and true, that's good till you see the abilitiies of these little guys to get into small spaces. No one can tell me they don't have all the heart and drives necessary to do the job. I've heard more than one person refer to JRTs as 12lb Mals. I've hunted racoons in barns and it's a piece of cake to toss a 12-14lb dog into the loft to flush the quarry. I've had field rats in my garage cealing and just tossed the dog up there. How easy would it be to toss a little JRT in a small crawl space in a cealing or under a house, etc on a drug search? There is definately a niche for them.
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