7/88Bounty that drug smugglers are rumored to have put on Barco, a U.S. Border Patrol drug-sniffing dog: $30,000

U.S. Border Patrol (McAllen, Tex.)

11/88Value of the narcotics that the U.S. Border Patrol’s 3,200 agents detected this year, per agent: $123,758

U.S. Border Patrol (Washington)

    Value of the narcotics that the Patrol’s 24 drug-sniffing dogs detected this year, per dog: $4,696,574

U.S. Border Patrol (Washington)

10/84Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of 11: $5,902

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4/91Estimated number of American dogs that have been named as beneficiaries in wills: 1,000,000

Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)/Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (Washington)

4/06Number of dogs that a California clinic trained to diagnose cancer by sniffing patients’ breath: 5

Nicholas Broffman, Pine Street Foundation (San Anselmo, Calif.)

    Percentage of lung- and breast-cancer cases that they accurately detect, respectively: 99, 88

Nicholas Broffman, Pine Street Foundation (San Anselmo, Calif.)