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aiolos

Sun 07 May, 2006


Dogs trained to sniff out fake DVDs

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Anybody who's ever opened a new cd spindle will know that smelling new cd/dvds is veeery easy.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>:wink:<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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The entertaiment industry has a new weapon against movie pirates.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> Two English dogs called Lucky and Flo have become the first dogs that are used to find counterfeit DVD's.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> The dogs have been taught to identify DVDs that might be located in boxes,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> envelopes or other packaging,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> as well as discs concealed amongst other goods.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> Their first test was pretty succesful.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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For their first major live test,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> Lucky and Flo were put to work at FedEx's UK hub at Stansted Airport in Essex where they immediately identified packages and parcels containing DVDs for destinations in the UK.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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Fact director general Raymond Leinster said:<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>"This is the first time dogs have been used anywhere in the world to search for counterfeit DVDs and the results were amazing.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>"With the co-operation and assistance of FedEx and Customs we were able to properly test the dogs in a live situation and prove that they can work in a busy working environment.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>"<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>