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Bed Bugs are close to epidemic proprotions in major US cities

Get a Bed-Bug Sniffing Dog on the Scene!

Many people in New York City have been using dogs trained to sweep their homes and apartments for bed-bugs. The thing that makes dogs ideal for this type of work is that as opposed to using chemical treatments to kill the bugs, dogs can search out the central nesting location of the bugs. The dogs are extremely accurate and they can make quick progress and accuracy which a person could never achieve.

Contributed by Lynn Cohen

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on Get a Bed-Bug Sniffing Dog on the Scene!

Dogs are very capable of detecting bedbugs in higher places, not limited to just at nose level. I have 2 bedbug detection dogs and regularly do "hides" in high locations. If dogs could only detect at ..
- Patrick O'Hara

The dogs work but articles report that only at the level of their nose. If bed bugs are higher than the dog's body the false negatives increase leaving bed bugs to reproduce and not be affected by tre..
- Jeffrey Brown

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