All right, I must be addicted to this site if I'm posting in this section... however, if one dog gets blown up one day instead of a sapper.... fellas, I have personal experience with mammals as mine probes, but in an underwater environment. I don't think its a secret that there are allied countries who have a vast array of marine mammals employed by their navy to locate, mark and neutralize sea mines, and anti amphib mines in the intertidal zone. They are effective. Every contact is confirmed by humans in the training environment, but I imagine in wartime they just blow up every contact, false or not. They don't miss many actual contacts ( better than human/machine), the main problem in my experience is false positives, mistaking large rocks, hot water tanks etc for contacts. Not a big deal. This is a visual and sonar search, no scent. So don't blow this off as a possibility. Beg, borrow lease or steal some dogs for a trial. I bet pigs would work even better.