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<p>Paul Dotsie gets a look and a bark from his dog Buster near Bishop, Calif. In his younger days, Buster would lay down on a spot like this to indicate an "alert." But having lost a leg to cancer, the 12-year-old canine now prefers to poke his nose in the direction of a particular spot.</p>

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What Buster nose
October 24, 2014 9 p.m.

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'Cadaver dog' work more accepted by cops, courts

BENTON, Calif. - Increasingly, police investigators and courts are putting their faith in four-legged tools - canines that can detect even small particles of human remains.