In India, Cocker Spaniels are taking on some jobs that Labradors are just too big for. The National Security Guard (NSG) in India need to search aircraft for explosives, but the big Labs they used were causing problems:
Lucy, A Cocker Spaniel. Photo by Paxie.
“Pilots would often complain about the controls of the aircraft being disturbed by the wagging tail and long extremities of the Labradors during search operations. …
“We have also designed a carrying device called “the dog handle” so that the [Cocker Spaniels] can be carried like an instrument inside the aircraft and raised to cabin baggage and other high reaching inaccessible areas where a Labrador could not reach.
[Via : The Hindu : Front Page : NSG dog unit to replace Labradors with Cocker Spaniels.]
Photo credit — Lucy, A Cocker Spaniel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paxie/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
