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carrying a backpack or it is attached to your body, as you move for- ward, you leave a wake of odor, including the odor of the explosive, behind you. The technology we developed has a dog sampling the wake and detecting explosives and tracking that explosives to its source.”
Auburn University patented the technology, one of the first ever of
canine detection methodology, and licensed the technology to a private company, VWK9, to transfer the technology into a user community.
In addition to handling the purchase of vapor wake dogs, VWK9 conducts the operational detection dog training and handler training, as well as provide Vapor Wake K9 Team services to large events, such as concerts and sporting events.
“Fans feel safer," said Paul Hammond, president of VWK9. "They see our non-obtrusive Labradors screening all that enter the event and often comment on how well the dogs are preforming and how much safer they feel by their presence.”
The VW dog is a high level detection dog. Auburn’s CPS program includes a research breeding program for which the Vapor Wake capa- ble dog is the standard (or target) to which they strive to achieve: cur- rently, about 60 percent of the dogs CPS produces are capable of Vapor Wake methodology.
“By contrast, in the general population, only one in about 100 dogs bred and trained for general detection dog tasks, could be capable of performing vapor wake canine,” Waggoner added. “CPS is recognized worldwide for the development canine detection tech- nology; and the program is unique in that it brings together science and application in the development of new tech-
nology and in understanding how dogs perform detection work.”
Janet McCoy is the Director of Communications & Marketing at Auburn University’s College of Veteri- nary Medicine.
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