Dogs enrich our lives in many ways. Working dogs, in particular, perform various tasks to assist humans. Guide dogs, service dogs, hearing dogs, and dogs that detect seizures, cancer, drugs, or explosives are some of the canines carefully bred and trained to lend their talents to improve our lives and keep us safe.
Extensive resources are invested to breed, raise, and train these dogs, but success rates from training programs are reportedly only 35-50 percent. Much attention and research is currently directed at improving this success rate to reduce expenses, decrease the waiting period for obtaining a service dog, and meet the growing demand for American-bred detection dogs.