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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Dog Sniffs Out Bed Bugs

Updated: 12:21 PM EDT Sep 10, 2020

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it seems all the time we're hearing about dogs that dio amazing things well, with an unbelievable sense of smell dogs. Or they used to finding drugs and also explosives. And, as Rob Robin reports, even bed books. It was just three years ago when Blanka was on death row down in Florida. Well, some folks that know a thing or two about dogs decided we're going to get a little Blanca and, oh, as it paid off. If you've got bedbugs or you think you have bedbugs, you need blocker trained by two K nine police officers instead of sniffing drugs. Block us, sniffs bedbugs. It's the same that we train our police dogs. Doesn't matter if it's cocaine, peanut butter or bedbugs. Everything has an individual ascent. She's a food reward dog, so when she locates a bedbug, she gets some food. Bedbugs. They can be a pain, and anybody can get bedbugs that bugs. They don't have anything to do with being dirty. So even though you're staying at a five star hotel, you still maybe bring in some extra guests home with you and one search her house. One bedbug can lay up to five eggs a day today, Blanka was showing her bedbug detection skills at the Mid Atlantic Food, Beverage and Lodging Expo at the Baltimore Convention Center. If you own a hotel you may need to hire Blanco is we could search a large a large amount of area in a short amount of time and with a lot greater proficiency than someone going in and doing a manual inspection looking for the bag, the bedbugs or the evidence of the bedbugs on their own. For Block A looking for bedbugs is fun. If you've got bedbugs, she'll find them. ROB Robin, W B A L TV 11 News

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Dog Sniffs Out Bed Bugs

Updated: 12:21 PM EDT Sep 10, 2020

Because they have an unbelievable sense of smell, dogs are used to find drugs and explosives -- and even bed bugs. Back in 2008, Rob Roblin met Blanca, who does just that.

Because they have an unbelievable sense of smell, dogs are used to find drugs and explosives -- and even bed bugs. Back in 2008, Rob Roblin met Blanca, who does just that.

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