00:00Today we're continuing training with Garvey, our nine-month-old English Springer Spaniel,
00:05and he's being trained on to ignitable liquids for fire investigations. We can train our dogs
00:10to 0.5 of a microlitre of any of the ignitable liquids that we train our dogs on, and they
00:15are
00:16able to find that within a time period. As far as I'm aware, we are the only designated
00:22ignitable liquid detection canine unit only capability within the Southern Hemisphere.
00:28They're part of the arsenal that we have in fire investigation in our unit, and they're
00:33utilized whenever we don't know why that fire has started or how it has started. On this
00:38cotton bud here, I have petrol impregnated here, and on this carpet and carpet underlay is diesel.
00:46Now we want Garvey to find the petrol that's on this cotton bud, but on this cotton bud where
00:51the diesel is and this underlay and the carpet, this is what we would call a distractor. So we
00:57don't want Garvey finding this. So whenever we're training Garvey, we put these distractors
01:01out. So straight away, as we're training, these are becoming background noise sent to him, and all
01:08he will be doing is focusing on those odors that we do want him to find, namely the petrol.
01:14Good boy. Show me.
01:18Today we're going to be imprinting Garvey onto a new odor, which is kerosene, and we have them set up
01:24over
01:24there under those trees. Hopefully, once Garvey has registered those training aids up there with
01:29kerosene, the hope is that that is enough to register in his brain that kerosene is an odor that
01:35he's interested in and will get rewarded on. And when we bring him down here, what we'd love to see
01:41is for him to come over and have a look at this pine needle here, because that has kerosene impregnated
01:47in on this bend here, but it's without the training aid. So if we know that he comes here, registers
01:51that there, and then, you know, we'd love to see him indicate, then he'll get rewarded on that,
01:56and that sort of cements that imprinting of that odor, then.
02:15Garvey is pretty special in that he is the first of English Springer Spaniels that we have used with
02:21this capability. The breed is known for its detection capabilities across the board, really. They're
02:27used for environmental conservation work, quarantine, the explosives, cadaver, but it's the first time
02:35that we've utilized them for ignitable liquids. What you get, bud? What you get there? Get it? Get it?
02:40Yes, that's a good dog! Good boy, mate! Good boy!
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