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Dogs Being Used To Find Bed Bugs

First Posted: 3/18/10 Updated: 11/17/11

Dogs

The Los Angeles Times:

Reporting from Asbury Park, N.J. - Sara pulled on her leash, sniffing up one side of a cluttered bedroom and snuffling down the other. The black Labrador retriever suddenly sat beside an armchair.

Rich Wilbert, her handler, flipped the chair over and poked at the stuffing and seams. He spotted pin-sized drops of human blood -- clear signs of an infestation of bed bugs in the small apartment.

Read the whole story: The Los Angeles Times

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12:14 AM on 10/21/2009
umm yeah they have been doing this for years

is rip van winkle just waking up and filing stories here?