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The cadaver dog sat and let out a single bark. The police and volunteers stopped where they were and search and rescue, along with police and forensic officers approached the dog who sat still where it had come across what it had alerted the searchers to.
In a small grove of trees, just beyond where the fire had started three and a half weeks ago, the dog had come across the coyote’s snack.
The humans had scared the coyote off as they had gotten closer with their searching. It hadn’t been back in the area for a couple of days. The cadaver dogs could smell the coyote’s scent, but beneath that, this one had also smelled the unmistakeable odor of human remains.
The searchers walked into the low brush and the dog sniffed around and circled around its find.
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