Lucky and Flo, the two Labradors who helped sniff out nearly one million illegal DVD's within days of joining Malaysia's anti-piracy effort, have been moved to a safe house, according to news reports from Kuala Lumpur. The New Straits Times reported that a source had tipped off officials about a bounty offered for killing the sniffer dogs, who are on loan for a month from the Motion Picture Association of America. The amount reportedly being offered by local crimelords is 100,000 Malaysian Ringgits (US$30,000)"The dogs are a genuine threat to the pirated disc syndicates, thus the instruction to eliminate them," Firdaus Zakaria, the enforcement director of the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, was quoted as saying. Lucky and Flo, who were pressed into service on March 13, gained fame after they sniffed out a massive shipment of pirated movie DVDs in an office complex in southern Johor state the following week.
The canines detected the discs hidden behind locked doors, which officials broke open with crowbars to reveal a cache of nearly one million discs worth US$2.8 million. Five Malaysians and a Vietnamese man also were arrested in the operation. It is the first time dogs have been used by authorities anywhere in the world to detect contraband discs, according to Mike Ellis, regional director for the MPAA.
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