[lit-ideas] Re: Canine Implicature
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:53:38 -0700
On Jun 29, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Veronica Caley wrote:
> < Dogs are just silly children compared to cats.>
>
> People who need them, even aside from companionship, would disagree. Such as
> the police, the military,
> the blind, the deaf, the epileptics and those who live their lives quite
> handicapped. Dogs, among other things, are taught to summon emergency
> personnel, to open and close doors, refrigerators, to bring a bottled drink
> to people who can't get it themselves. And lately, it seems dogs have some
> skill in identifying, with remarkable if imperfect accuracy, people with
> prostate and bladder cancer. In some cases, from what I have read or seen,
> with more accuracy than the latest technology.
An article I read recently said they've been trained to detect smuggled money
in Mexican airports. Before such money is laundered, apparently the smell is
quite strong.
David Ritchie,
Portland,
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