article_snippet: These incredible photographs show dogs hard at work in the most dangerous job in the world - clearing mines in the war fields of Afghanistan.
article_snippet: Mine Detection teams work with the highly-trained dogs, typically Belgian or German Shepherds, to find and neutralise the lethal explosives in the Namak Ab District of Afghanistan.
article_snippet: Highly trained: German Shepherds (left) are being used to detect mines in Afghanistan.
article_snippet: The heroic dogs are from the Afghan Mine Detection Center and funding comes from government donations around the world and international charities .
article_snippet: Dogs can search much faster than a person with a detector, especially in areas where mine contamination is low.
article_snippet: The dogs are used because The dogs can normally find mines much more quickly than humans can, even if The dogs have a detector .
article_snippet: Those tending to farmyard animals in the countryside are particularly vulnerable to minefields .
article_snippet: Those tending to farmyard animals in the countryside are from the Afghan Mine Detection Center and funding comes from government donations around the world and international charities.
article_snippet: Those tending to farmyard animals in the countryside then know to sniff along in a straight line searching for the explosives.
highlights_snippet: Mine Detection teams work with  highly-trained German Shepherds .
  
highlights_snippet: Dogs are able to find mines faster even than someone with a detector .