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05-03-19, 10:31 AM
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Jeez. Cuties. Going for a pup, I see, after so many years of adopting. Same thing happened to me this time. Sometimes you just want a puppy.
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05-03-19, 10:32 AM
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Too late. Puppy Love’s nosework instructor has a bedbug dog. We’re already contaminated it seems.
05-03-19, 10:35 AM
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Nice - no sealant spray to speak of upon refilling my tires/wheels and airing them up (I had pulled the dried sealant off of the inside of the tires and cleaned/re-taped the rims). I did do this outside, just in case I had to give them a good spin to find any old punctures; I don't think that the wife would have been thrilled with Orange Seal splatters in the office. Now to see how much air they retain this evening and then overnight.
05-03-19, 10:39 AM
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J Econ Entomol. 2014 Dec;107(6):2171-81. doi: 10.1603/EC14195.
© 2014 Entomological Society of America.
Accuracy of Trained Canines for Detecting Bed Bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae).
Cooper R1, Wang C2, Singh N1.Author information
Abstract
Detection of low-level bed bug, Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), infestations is essential for early intervention, confirming eradication of infestations, and reducing the spread of bed bugs. Despite the importance of detection, few effective tools and methods exist for detecting low numbers of bed bugs. Scent dogs were developed as a tool for detecting bed bugs in recent years. However, there are no data demonstrating the reliability of trained canines under natural field conditions. We evaluated the accuracy of 11 canine detection teams in naturally infested apartments. All handlers believed their dogs could detect infestations at a very high rate (≥95%). In three separate experiments, the mean (min, max) detection rate was 44 (10-100)% and mean false-positive rate was 15 (0-57)%. The false-positive rate was positively correlated with the detection rate. The probability of a bed bug infestation being detected by trained canines was not associated with the level of bed bug infestations. Four canine detection teams evaluated on multiple days were inconsistent in their ability to detect bed bugs and exhibited significant variance in accuracy of detection between inspections on different days. There was no significant relationship between the team's experience or certification status of teams and the detection rates. These data suggest that more research is needed to understand factors affecting the accuracy of canine teams for bed bug detection in naturally infested apartments.© 2014 Entomological Society of America.
KEYWORDS:
Cimex lectularius; canine scent detection; inspection; monitoring
05-03-19, 10:40 AM
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There goes my retirement.
05-03-19, 10:52 AM
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Don't know yet, maybe a black female, maybe a red male. The others are all spoken for.
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05-03-19, 10:55 AM
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05-03-19, 10:59 AM
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I would consider drug detection before bedbug detection.
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05-03-19, 11:59 AM
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My dogs are best at bed detection.
05-03-19, 12:00 PM
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They're darn good at treat detection too.
05-03-19, 12:36 PM
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Stay away from them. By the time you notice a bite or a bug, your house will be filled with them. They only eat blood. If you see one bug PM me immediately. If you're already infected, it's a big deal.
05-03-19, 12:57 PM
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If they are close to you a human can smell them sometimes. That does not mean you are not infected if you can't smell them. Good luck with a dog finding them if they are between the ceiling and the above floor.
IMO owning a small dog limits the poison one can use. They best way is to have the entire house heated to 135f for 5 hours. And also all at the same time. Have fun taking all the spray cans, candles, meds, chocolate, etc , out of the home along with you. Or if there is room you can put a lot of stuff in the refrigerator. etc, etc. etc,
IMO owning a small dog limits the poison one can use. They best way is to have the entire house heated to 135f for 5 hours. And also all at the same time. Have fun taking all the spray cans, candles, meds, chocolate, etc , out of the home along with you. Or if there is room you can put a lot of stuff in the refrigerator. etc, etc. etc,
05-03-19, 01:50 PM
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05-03-19, 01:56 PM
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Well I’m not really sure it’s about results and performance as much as just wanting to enjoy your ride. After you’ve been riding for awhile, I think you just experience so many iterations of the failed group ride that you know you may have a more enjoyable time riding solo. You can just do your own thing and not deal with any “ride sociology”.
Maybe this is more pronounced for me. As a woman, maybes it’s that my physiology is different enough from my mostly male ride companions that group rides just never seem to easily and effortlessly occur at a pace that’s fun for me. It’s mostly too slow or too fast or if the pace is just-so someone’s doing weird stuff like coming around from behind when I’m on the front and then moving in front of me and slowing down when (I guess) he realizes there’s wind up front.
But I think it’s just the nature of most group rides, where no ones really in charge, there’s no agreed-upon pace, and working as a group is not the primary objective.
Maybe this is more pronounced for me. As a woman, maybes it’s that my physiology is different enough from my mostly male ride companions that group rides just never seem to easily and effortlessly occur at a pace that’s fun for me. It’s mostly too slow or too fast or if the pace is just-so someone’s doing weird stuff like coming around from behind when I’m on the front and then moving in front of me and slowing down when (I guess) he realizes there’s wind up front.
But I think it’s just the nature of most group rides, where no ones really in charge, there’s no agreed-upon pace, and working as a group is not the primary objective.
05-03-19, 01:58 PM
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My cat is getting dental work on Monday, which means no food after 10 p.m. Sunday night. I am going to see if my bar tender's Airbnb near my house is available Sunday night.
05-03-19, 02:00 PM
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05-03-19, 03:44 PM
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Here's the station to be watching Sunday. UP 4014 gonna be rollin by!
I think Trains Magazine is gonna be running some live action on Facebook, too.
I won't be seeing it in person 'til the 15th at the earliest, on the way back to Cheyenne from the Golden Spike 150th Anniversary shindig.
I think Trains Magazine is gonna be running some live action on Facebook, too.
I won't be seeing it in person 'til the 15th at the earliest, on the way back to Cheyenne from the Golden Spike 150th Anniversary shindig.
05-03-19, 04:07 PM
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I started Puppy Love on Nosework last week. It’s a dogsport based on the training you’d give a drug or bomb sniffing dog but instead you train them to search for and detect one of four standardized essential oils.
So I was reading about sniffer dogs and learned about the different types of professional for-pay sniffer dogs and started wondering if maybe Puppy Love could earn some Benjamins towards her upkeep.
Bomb detection no way. Drug sniffing no way. Search and rescue? Well she could get into small spaces but I don’t want her crushed by rubble. So, no. Truffles? Hmm moving to France might be ok. But probably all the good truffle territory is claimed already.
Then I read about bedbug sniffing dogs. They make $325 per hour. Seems pretty safe, hotels and apartments. I like this idea.
We’re pretty far from doing anything useful, though. All we’re training so far is searching behavior. Looking in boxes to see if there’s something good. Later you pair the searching with scent, which is apparently the easy part. Realistically we’ll probably just do the sport recreationally. But the idea of funding an early retirement with bed bug sniffing is real.
So I was reading about sniffer dogs and learned about the different types of professional for-pay sniffer dogs and started wondering if maybe Puppy Love could earn some Benjamins towards her upkeep.
Bomb detection no way. Drug sniffing no way. Search and rescue? Well she could get into small spaces but I don’t want her crushed by rubble. So, no. Truffles? Hmm moving to France might be ok. But probably all the good truffle territory is claimed already.
Then I read about bedbug sniffing dogs. They make $325 per hour. Seems pretty safe, hotels and apartments. I like this idea.
We’re pretty far from doing anything useful, though. All we’re training so far is searching behavior. Looking in boxes to see if there’s something good. Later you pair the searching with scent, which is apparently the easy part. Realistically we’ll probably just do the sport recreationally. But the idea of funding an early retirement with bed bug sniffing is real.
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05-03-19, 04:21 PM
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I knows this is really strange, and I may have discussed this before here (see, my memory isn't so good these days), but there was a segment on one of the TV shows last night put up by a vet (who also originates from Tasmania) about how ex-greyhounds go through a special training system to get them used to life away from training and racing.
They aren't the most physically beautiful dogs in the world, but I gathered the results of enough greyhound race meets for my employer newspaper when in a cadet ship to know they are hugely intelligent, but treated like crap unless they won thousands of dollars. And I've seen quite a few bodies in bushlands when they are have been disposed of, which was quite distressing for me.
Machka and I have seen enough of them being walked when we are out and about to know they are wonderful, seemingly sedate dogs that cope with the presence of other dogs quite well.
They aren't the most physically beautiful dogs in the world, but I gathered the results of enough greyhound race meets for my employer newspaper when in a cadet ship to know they are hugely intelligent, but treated like crap unless they won thousands of dollars. And I've seen quite a few bodies in bushlands when they are have been disposed of, which was quite distressing for me.
Machka and I have seen enough of them being walked when we are out and about to know they are wonderful, seemingly sedate dogs that cope with the presence of other dogs quite well.
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05-03-19, 04:26 PM
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Again we catch up with TV stuff that is about the use of dogs in detection work at airports and on-land borders (US and Canada), and incredibly they are animals that are hugely effective in their job and generally are simply awarded (although I am sure they are rewarded off-screen with a great deal of training and affection by the people who are in charge of them).
05-03-19, 06:42 PM
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05-03-19, 06:48 PM
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I always thought the produce sniffing dogs at the international airports were cute. I saw an old lady with an orange get busted at O’Hare by a beagle. We had just got off of a flight from Spain. 
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05-04-19, 04:39 AM
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