First UK-trained bedbug sniffer dogs go into service

Managing director, David Cain, explains how his clients will benefit: “These dogs bring a whole new dimension to our work. The average human has a mere five million scent receptors in their nose, but a dog has 200-300 million and sometimes more than that. We are simply putting this ability to good use. Our dogs can very quickly detect bedbugs in a hotel room, or indeed any other location, when it might take a human hours to do a thorough visual inspection.”

Dogs have been used very effectively for the detection of a wide variety of things including drugs, bombs, fugitives and dead bodies – so why not bedbugs. In the USA dogs have been used to detect bedbugs for some years and are now successfully used by a few US pest control companies as an additional detection device.

© J & K Canine Academy,
Florida, USA

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30 March 2009