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This year, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) will breed more than 100 dogs to train them to sniff out mines in the Kingdom so that the nation will no longer need to rely on importing dogs for this purpose from abroad.
CMAC director Heng Ratana said that on Feb 9 a mine-sniffing dog had given birth to 11 puppies at CMAC’s Technical Institute of Mine Action.
He said CMAC was proud of the breeding programme, which the centre designed independently without help from abroad.
A successful breeding programme in Cambodia would mean the centre would no longer have to depend on importing dogs from abroad, especially Europe, he said.
This year, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) will breed more than 100 dogs in order to train them to sniff out mines in the Kingdom so that the nation will no longer need to rely on importing dogs for this purpose from abroad.
CMAC director Heng Ratana said that on February 9 a mine-sniffing dog had given birth to 11 puppies at CMAC’s Technical Institute of Mine Action (TIMA) in Kampong Chhnang province.
“So far we have seven or eight litters of puppies. Some of the litters have six puppies, some more than 10. We have over 40 puppies born already and there are still another seven or eight more litters on the way,” Ratana said.