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After Haiti, Sniffer Dog Goes to Chile
The eight-year-old labrador combed furiously through the ruined homes in the Maule River Valley, searching for the remains of those who perished when monster waves hit Constitucion after Saturday's 8.8-magnitude quake.
Other dogs are trained to locate survivors trapped in the rubble of damaged buildings. But since he was a pup of just eight months old, Cain's speciality has been locating the dead.
"This kind of dog points to the place where they detect the smell of decomposing bodies," said Jose Carrasco Martinez, the master of the fair-haired canine.
Cain's rare skills were put to use in Haiti where more than 200,000 people are believed to have died in January's 7.0 magnitude quake.
Now he is back at work in Chile, his home country, where untold hundreds might have died in Saturday's quake and massive killer waves.
The dog eagerly sniffed along some stones Thursday, seemed to follow a scent, but then darted off in another direction.
Cain, who arrived with his trainer from Santiago on Sunday, has already found four bodies.
"In one house, he located two adults and two minors, buried in the rubble," Carrasco said. "We're working in places where people have told us that their loved ones have gone missing.
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