Secret Tactics to Outsmart Sniffer Dogs | Mythbusters | Discovery

The team embarks on a captivating experiment to determine if they can outsmart a highly trained sniffer dog. With an array of hidden objects, masked by peanut butter, coffee and other strong scents, they strive to deceive these remarkable canines and prove that humans can outwit even the most advanced scent detectors.
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[PawPower]

The way Carrie messed up was when packing it with her bare hands. She transferred the scent to the outside of the container. She should’ve used gloves when packing and changed gloves when closing the containers.

[nathanhill-nv]

They never gonna show you how to beat a sniffer dog even if they figured out away

[vask]

One of the best tv shows for sure, love mythbusters ❤🥰

[rhysioeren]

I like that they call the officers "sidekicks" of the dogs 🐕 🤓.

[Macgyver]

Surprised, a fully air-tight container wasn't used.

[donaldinnewmexico]

Fried chicken. I would also put red chile powder around to make the dog sneeze.

[crispychrissy]

Since they said the "contraband" is legal, I'm guessing it's gunpowder or some kind of common explosive and Rex is a bomb-sniffing dog. Not too far of a logical leap since illegal substances comprise like 90% of what dogs are trained to locate.

[erockrude]

People smuggle things around the world every single day. Myth confirmed.

[HT-vmzm]

I hope to see you use a menthol scent body ache rub Like Flex All

[soundsannin]

It has been wildly underestimated. Also misinterpreting how "sniffers" work. Also a giant lack of context but assuming they used their scents with the dog they can Ultimately figure out where things are based on the oils produced by fingers. When a trained canine detecting oders smells the last place something was placed it's not helpful to bury the items scent. But your own. Id be more interested in knowing how well they hid their own scent.

[Tis_I_SirJames]

Hopefully they tell you this in part two.
Even if you put illegal drugs into anything you can think of, that article will still be semipermeable. The molecules inside the illegal drugs will still go through any object and allow the dogs to detect them. The longer the drugs stay inside the object the easier it is for the dogs to find them because it gives the molecules inside the drugs more time to permeate through it.

[arinlilevjen]

They should have also tried adding a couple decoy containers where they just had containers of coffee or bleach or peanut butter etc without the mystery substance inside and see if the dog still found the correct container. How do we know the dog wasn't just sniffing out peanut butter?

[Metonymy]

Theres a woman that can smell Parkinson's. That's pretty nuts. RIP Grant Imahara

[dupeaccount]

Harsh chemicals can cause dogs to potentially lose their sense of smell. I don't recommend harming animals like this unless it's a life or death situation though. But then again, why would you be evading sniffer dogs?

[stilcrazychris]

You noticed it was all dog level. Put it up high dog will not smell it bc odor raises.

[andrewmurray]

I heard to double bag it hot sauce from a guy in jail, so you know it (mostly) works.

[Im-that-guy]

We'll wipe the bag off with beach and ammonia and stick the bag inside of silicone works 100% your welcome

[legacyntd]

As someone who has trained these for over 30 years and analyzed dashcam footage that coffee search was not real. It was done in more than one take. The way the dog went in, the position of the officer and the camera were all different. It appears to have been done at least 3 times. Also, NO OFFICER would ever allow the dog to have the dog do a known problem with bleach as part of it as it would damage the dogs nose and would ruin a $30k item that belongs to the city not the officer. Also, your aids were shallow and on the ground. I have trained puppies that can do that and though you didn't reveal the odor the way the dog searches reveals it is a narcotics dog. A bomb dog would not break thresholds the way this dog and handler did nor would they respond that close as a bomb dogs threshold is much lower and they don't touch ANYTHING. Not to mention the handler was in front presenting to the dog, you never get in front of an explosives wires. Given the fact that it would have been illegal for you to have had in possession actual contraband of a narcotic you were most likely using pseudo which is simply the single odorant that the dog responds to. For example, cocaine would be methyl benzoate. This was a joke of a test and to a trained eye done more than once.

[jarule]

I now know why regular TV is dead and YouTube is thriving... Too much bla bla not enough showing me wtf I wanna see.

[csjrogerson]

Didnt start well with the brainiac question of, "What is the difference between a detecting dog and a tracking dog?" Is he expecting an audience with very poor comprehension skills? Never answered the question.