Man's Dog Helps Police Bust Him: It can be a little bit more than ironic when your own dog throws you to the authorities. Still, that is how things worked out for Edwin Henderson.
The situation took place in Alabama. The police told ABC News that the pooch called Bo was at the scene when they arrived. Apparently, as soon as they got to Henderson's place, the man left running.
Now, when a person wants to run off and knows the place, he can find a lot of places to hide that they authorities will not be aware of. So, the police decided to go with another method.
The police officers told the dog a simple, "go get him" and surely, they pointed at the direction the man ran off to. The dog, not so surprisingly, went indeed after his owner.
Then, the police came out to search for the dog and Bo was standing on tall grass wagging his tail. The officers, then, found and arrested Henderson. Incredible but seemingly true.
According to the Daily Mail, Henderson has several charges, including: manufacturing a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and now, failure to obey the police.
One interesting detail to analyze is if the dog smelled his owner or perhaps drugs that could have been held by him at the time. There is no comment on that fact, but we've done some research on K-9 dogs and how they help the police to locate drugs.
Most people, including myself before stumbling with the actual facts, believe that dogs follow drugs because they want to either eat them or after consuming them, they've developed an addiction.
That's far from the truth, though. People has stated that dogs are actually trained with a towel that at first is absolutely clean and free from any scent. They play a tug-of-war, an instructor with a dog.
Then, they mix the towel into marijuana, for instance, and continue playing. The dog, later on, when doing an actual search in a scene of crime or airports, etc, is actually looking for his toy.
The dog doesn't eat the drugs, but rather brings it to the police officers, to "play" with them, like it assumes that will happen. This method is actually a smart one. If the dog considered drugs to be food, there would be no evidence left afterwards.
It's safe to assume that Bo here wasn't trained like a K-9 in any way. At least, it hasn't been mentioned. But it is quite possible that the dog didn't find it hard to follow his owner if Henderson had any drugs with him.
The dog might assume that by finding him, and the drugs, would later lead to a game of some sort with the officers.
Once again, this last relationship is a mere hypothesis and it's also interesting to see how the dogs actually follow substances and why. But it is a possibility after all for Bo to follow his owner as a game. What Bo ignores is that the man got busted.
