Specialist Trained Dogs

Karenswood (International) Ltd brought its considerable influence to bear on the original draft document that was the forerunner of the Guard Dog Act 1967.

By 1985, the Company had become a veritable institution to which governments and world organisations turned to for assistance and by the mid 1990s, Karenswood (International) Ltd would service the needs of over 80 countries.
In 1961, Karenswood (International) Ltd introduced explosives and narcotics search dogs to the Police forces of Great Britain. It was not until the 1970s when Karenswood trained and sold a yellow Labrador dog to the West Midlands Police that the force acquired its first Explosives Search Dog.

In 1962 Karenswood (International) Ltd conducted feasibility trials to evaluate the potential of dogs as Hydrocarbons Detectors. The results achieved were truly phenomenal. Subsequently, dogs were trained by Karenswood to locate leaks in buried high voltage electricity cables and also to detect the presence of hydrocarbons in illegal fire settings.

It was in 1964 that Karenswood (International) Ltd trained the world’s first dog for the detection of hydrocarbons in illegal fire settings. Because of the lack of interest in Great Britain at that time, the project was marketed overseas. However, due to the unremitting efforts of the West Midlands Fire Service, it was in 1996 that Karenswood (International) Ltd gave Europe its first Fire Investigation Dog.