Abused dog joins Hungarian army, has a knack for ‘smells dynamite’

Uncle dog Logan – Photo:TAIWANNEWS

In 2021, after receiving a report of a dog’s condition treated badly To the point of malnutrition in a residential area in northeastern Hungary, the country’s animal welfare workers quickly rescued this dog.

A few weeks later, Nemeth, a training officer with the Hungarian regiment, visited and began to assess the dog’s ability to join the army, when his regiment was looking for potential dogs. detect explosives from terrorists.

The AP reported that Nemeth was impressed with the dog’s abilities at the time because of his relatively good agility after only a few weeks of recovery. Immediately, Nemeth put his trust and brought the dog back to the unit’s station on the Danube in Budapest with the name Logan.

There, Logan was trained to recognize the smell of 25 different types of explosives as well as learn how to search for motor vehicles, AP said.

During an explosive smell test, Nemeth said it only took Logan seconds to discover the area where he had hidden the fake explosives on the regiment’s riverboats. This made Nemeth very pleased and believed that Logan would give the regiment little help in finding bombs.

Nemeth adds: “Logan is really valuable, as out of about 10,000 rescued dogs, only one dog is as psychologically and physically fit as Logan.”

In fact, Colonel Zsolt Szilagyi, commander of the Hungarian regiment, said that in recent years extremists have been using more homemade explosives. This makes us need many new methods to detect bombs

“This is a challenge that the military has to face and it was these dogs that helped us a lot in detecting the bombs,” added Szilagyi.

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