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Rex is a supersniffer who’s trained to detect odours from drugs, guns and cash and he’s one of the four dogs that make up the Garda’s Southern Region Dog Unit.
Rex is not just a high achiever, but an early starter, having passed his course at just 12 months old. He also has a brother on the force in Dublin.
“All he wants to do is play,” says his handler, Garda Pat Harrington. “He’d lick you to death.”
It’s long been known that dogs have a phenomenal sense of smell, thousands of times more sensitive than a human being’s.