{"id":6345,"date":"2014-09-29T01:24:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T06:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2014-09-29T01:24:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T06:24:25","slug":"sniffer-dogs-how-dogs-and-their-noses-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/sniffer-dogs-how-dogs-and-their-noses-save-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (and Their Noses) Save the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51PRc7lpNDL._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/054408893X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=054408893X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=IX22HHMOQJKRAFNH\">Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (and Their Noses) Save the World<\/a><br \/>\nby Nancy Castaldo (Author)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Anyone who has ever spent time with a dog knows that dogs love sniffing! They sniff out hidden food, dirty socks, and the visitor who comes to the door. But some dogs work with police officers, soldiers and even scientists to put their &#8220;sniffers&#8221; to work. Sniffer dogs make use of the amazing biology behind their noses to protect people from bombs, catch criminals smuggling drugs, or help researchers locate a hard to find snail in a forest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> During World War I and Wrld War II, dogs were used to help locate injured soldiers on or near the battlefield. These dogs were also called casualty or ambulance dogs. They were also used by the military as scouts, trackers, sentries, and messengers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/nonfiction.monday.jpg\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nonfictionmonday.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (and Their Noses) Save the World by Nancy Castaldo (Author) Booktalk: Anyone who has ever spent time with a dog knows that dogs love sniffing! They sniff out hidden food, dirty socks, and the visitor who comes to the door. But some dogs work with police officers, soldiers and even scientists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/sniffer-dogs-how-dogs-and-their-noses-save-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (and Their Noses) Save the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-chapter-book-of-the-day","category-nonfiction-monday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}