Cellphone Sniffing Dog “Finds Some”
October 9th, 2008
Razor, a Florida dog who’s been trained in the art of sniffing out cellphones for the Broward Correctional Institution Ft. Lauderdale, amazed staff at the prison yesterday after finding three of the things on top of a box with a hole in it.
The dog, who achieved nothing of note until the age of three, came across the phones in a corner of the recreation yard during her afternoon poop break and immediately set about staring at them silently and intently until her handler came across and said “there’s a good girl then.”
According to prison guard Mike Smithers, the owner of the blue one, he and two colleagues had slipped into the yard for their smoke break a few minutes earlier and had left their phones on the box for safekeeping while they kicked a soccer ball around among themselves.
“She keeps doing that,” said Mike, 32. “She’s supposed to be on the lookout for contraband phones - visitors smuggle them in for inmates in all kinds of clever ways, like inside cakes or disguised as hairbrushes. But Razor, she’s got it into her head that any phones will do. It’s actually kind of annoying, especially when you’re trying to make a call.”
Razor came to the prison a year ago after previously belonging to the old-timers at a nearby nursing home who had trained her to find the TV remote. “It didn’t work out,” said Jason Reynolds, Razor’s handler. “They wanted her to fetch as well as find, but she won’t do that. She just stares until you come and pick it up yourself.”
Nobody at the nursing home was available for comment because they were all looking for the remote.
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