Even k9 failures are good dogs, Brent

October 19, 2017 11:18 AM

They just don't care to sniff for bombs (slWaPo)
posted by k5.user (22 comments total)

Still a good girl.
posted by Elly Vortex at 11:22 AM on October 19, 2017

This dog knows her true path in life isn't full of explody stuff. 25/10, great dog.
posted by xingcat at 11:36 AM on October 19, 2017 [4 favorites]

i eat shoes
posted by Fizz at 11:36 AM on October 19, 2017 [6 favorites]

Airport sniffer dogs find 'cheese and sausages' but no Class A drugs
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 11:40 AM on October 19, 2017 [1 favorite]

A recent story on a pup who couldn't hack police training and had to settle for just making a lot of people really happy

With some adorable pics.
posted by orange ball at 11:45 AM on October 19, 2017 [7 favorites]

A recent story on a pup who couldn't hack police training and had to settle for just making a lot of people really happy

*3 dog years later*

“So, I just dropped out to follow my dreams. Working for the man just isn't something I'm cut out for. It wasn't the life for me. I now make people happy. I'm living my own life.”
posted by Fizz at 11:48 AM on October 19, 2017 [4 favorites]

Unfortunately, the dog knew too many secrets.
posted by Space Coyote at 11:49 AM on October 19, 2017

Airport sniffer dogs find 'cheese and sausages' but no Class A drugs.

Airport sniffer dogs respectfully dissent on definition of "Class A drugs".
posted by The Bellman at 11:50 AM on October 19, 2017 [5 favorites]

I was just perusing the excellent web site NakedCapitalism where I came across this article:

The article points out that that government propaganda is endemic:

However it’s also been well documented that moviemakers are actively encouraged by government agencies to present a certain image of the world. Nicholas Schou, for example, explains how:

“Since the mid-1990s, but especially after 9/11, American screenwriters, directors, and producers have traded positive portrayal of the spy profession in film or television projects for special access and favours at CIA headquarters.”

In an interview with The Guardian, veteran CIA operative Chase Brandon confirmed that “We’ve always been portrayed erroneously as evil and Machiavellian…It took us a long time to support projects that portray us in the light we want to be seen in.” And shows like NCIS already receive special assistance from the US military.

Most people don’t think the TV programmes or films they watch are propaganda, just as they don’t like to think that their opinions aren’t their own, but these examples show that confirmation bias is hard at work under the surface of the media. In that case, what can be done?

The CIA doesn't murder innocent people in their beds. They have cute dogs.
posted by metasluggo at 11:52 AM on October 19, 2017 [7 favorites]

Just because you have a cute dogge doesn't make us forget about everything you've done over the last sixty or so years. Bad propaganda, Bad!
posted by Sphinx at 11:54 AM on October 19, 2017 [2 favorites]

Lulu understands that airport security is mostly theater.
posted by AFABulous at 12:03 PM on October 19, 2017 [9 favorites]

The dog has the expression of one who has seen the fnords.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 12:23 PM on October 19, 2017

So upset the headline isn't "Hero Dog Declines CIA Job Offer, Rebuffs Lavish Offer of Treats, Pats"
posted by straight at 12:53 PM on October 19, 2017 [2 favorites]

Heartwarming stories about cute puppies on the CIA's twitter feed... finally 2017 being insane in a good way.
posted by Riki tiki at 1:03 PM on October 19, 2017 [2 favorites]

And shows like NCIS already receive special assistance from the US military.

I was a navy brat and was in the Marines. I'm saying me and the military go way back.

And that sentence explains so much about this scene.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 1:13 PM on October 19, 2017 [3 favorites]

Lulu story reminds me of the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation dogs but in reverse. They look for rescue or donated dogs which would normally be too much for families to handle, because they need jobs to be happy. We donated to them for a wedding gift one year, and the annual brochure is full of cute happy doggy faces training to save people's lives.
Every time I hear of a disaster I think of these guys, and they have been busy this year.

They're all good dogs, Brent, even the dropouts (who all get adopted).
posted by Hermeowne Grangepurr at 1:37 PM on October 19, 2017 [9 favorites]

A few weeks ago I wrote a song about Gavel the Dog.
posted by pxe2000 at 1:41 PM on October 19, 2017

I make that same face when my boss says he shipped too many TOWs to Syria and asks me to sniff them back from Jabhat al-Nusra.
posted by ecmendenhall at 6:35 PM on October 19, 2017 [2 favorites]

I think this kind of thing is what happened to my aunt and uncle's guide dogs--not a one of them made it to actually guiding a blind person, I think they just lost interest once they had to leave Happy Fun Time Dog House and go back to school.
posted by jenfullmoon at 7:10 PM on October 19, 2017

Even the successful trainees may not be as skilled as we are led to believe. But yes, they are all good dogs.
posted by TedW at 5:54 AM on October 20, 2017

Airport dog at 0:50
posted by anthill at 5:43 PM on October 20, 2017 [1 favorite]

Me, i would say that the dogs who decline to work for imperialist invaders, much like the dogs who decline to work for fascist pigs, are the very opposite of "failures". And they are very good dogs.
posted by adrienneleigh at 1:52 PM on October 21, 2017