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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"People always say dogs are man's best friend but I've never seen a cat working for the cops."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Indeed, but it didn't stop them from trying to use cats. Thankfully it failed spectacularly while costing a certain 3 letter agency many millions of dollars in the 60s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sadly they do make cats work as narcs tho :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Cats can be trained just like dogs. Most people just prefer them to be feral lil monsters so they never do. iirc they are especially good at sniffing out dead bodies and animal parts which is pretty useful for cops.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I don't think that is a real vest