# How dangerous is the work of a bomb sniffing dog?

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**Created:** [May 9, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dangerous-is-the-work-of-a-bomb-sniffing-dog/719595 "2015-05-09T02:50:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dangerous-is-the-work-of-a-bomb-sniffing-dog/719595/1 "2015-05-09T02:50:06Z")

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How dangerous is the work of a bomb sniffing dog? Less dangerous than pope (almost all of them have died in office:rolleyes:) but more dangerous than what?

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dangerous-is-the-work-of-a-bomb-sniffing-dog/719595/2 "2015-05-09T14:21:36Z")

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I can’t imagine it’s very dangerous (after all, humans do the dismantling/deactivating).

Still, I hear the Labrador Retriever Union prefers its members to work on locating cadavers and drugs.