What is the ratio of mines:UXO found by demining dogs?
Dogs are equally effective at finding both mines and UXO. For example, during one working period in Bosnia, RONCO/Global mine-detecting dogs working with mine detecting teams found 1,625 mines and 1,523 UXO while clearing approximately 800,000 square meters. These numbers are a function of what was there and not a measure of the dog’s ability to find one type of ordnance more readily than another. Again, the dogs are trained to alert to the scent of specific explosives and/or their containers. They do not distinguish between mines and UXO.
