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Hi Shane
I do not know much about sokks. But one thing that does concern me about using this substance to train with is the dogs overall scent picture. Anyone that trains detection dogs understands about how a dog constructs a scent picture of the target odours. This sokks apprarently has all the target odours rolled into one. Thereby creating a certain scent picture for the dog.
If we train a dog to indicate on a stew... doesn't mean the dog will then indicate on cooked potatoes on their own.
Also we have issue to varying amounts of target odours also creating different scent pictures for the dog. For example you continually train a dog on only say 5gms of cocaine.. There is a good chance your dog will not indicate to 1kg of cocaine if he has never been trained on that amount.
I personally would not use it.. and there are not many government departments around the world that do use it. Its is very limited in the number of trainers that do use it. I also have never seen any scientific independant non biased tests done on dogs that have been trained on this odour, except from the company that produces it.
I do know it is sold in Australia. But you try do a search on any detection dog trainers around the world that do train on it? Virtually non!
Just my opinion
Mark
