The US could be about to be dogged by a sniffer shortage

Everything has its own supply chain, even, it seems, sniffer dogs. Prior to the pandemic, US authorities sourced 85%-90% of its sniffer dogs from Europe, largely Germany and the Netherlands – as with everything else that got messed up by Covid, so too was the supply of properly bred and newly trained dogs, according to this Wired report.

There are currently around 5,100 dogs owned by federal agencies and another 420 owned by third-party contractors, and while in the longer-term projects ...