![]() ![]() ![]() It currently fields 160 teams working mostly in New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago and Dallas-the dogs always work in tandem with the same handler, usually for eight or nine years. In the shrouded world of bomb dog education, MSA is one of the elite academies. Dogs don’t need to be taught how to smell, of course, but they do need to be taught where to smell-along the seams of a suitcase, say, or underneath a pallet where the vapors that are heavier than air settle. The luggage pieces joined bicycles, suitcases, shrink-wrapped pallets, car-shaped cutouts and concrete blocks on the campus of MSA’s Bomb Dog U. ![]() ![]() This is where MSA Security trains what are known in the security trade as explosive detection canines, or EDCs. They’re lined up against the back wall of a large hangar on a country road outside Hartford, Connecticut. When I first meet a likable young Labrador named Merry, she is clearing her nostrils with nine or ten sharp snorts before she snuffles along a row of luggage pieces, all different makes and models. ![]()
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