Meth scent - Page 2

I would have thought anyone training a drug dog would have already known all of this..Bow.

Question and observation for anyone training drug dogs. 

If METH is a combo of common chemicals - then by training your drug dog on these common chemicals (which you could never combine to accurately reflect the exact combo of meth, because IRL that will vary), are you not rendering your dog completely useless in a court-of-law?

For example, if your dog alerts on my car panel, and a warrant is issued to take apart that car panel based on that alert, regardless of whether I have drugs in my car, if I had it cleaned recently and that panel was cleaned with a solvent that your dog is trained on, the entire search is null and void, because you cannot be confident that the dog wasn't alerting on the residual solvent.

Incidentally -for human remains - I would NEVER train pseudo because there is no reason to have that liability in court. 

There was a trainer here in Alabama who is now retired (Clay Balof)  that trained several  dogs to find human remains exclusively on pseudo scent. His dog teams had some excellent finds over the years and I never heard of him or his teams being questioned about it in court.

Two Moons don't know how to take the remark but you would be absolutely surprised at what I have observed over a rather long period of time with the storage and use of pseudo while observing trainers and training.

Auntievenom,

You are correct. If I were defense attorney, the first thing I would do would ask for training records. If there is no training log, you leave yourself wide open. If that training log does not show documented false alerts, you also have a problem, because sometimes false alerts happen. 

You could also run into a problem( depending on the situation) from a civil standpoint when they search and find no drugs.

Any LE dog handler should keep a good training log which should include documenting false alerts in triaining and the presumed reason for the false alert.