Dogs help catch bedbugs

Dogs are indeed our best friends. Thanks to their über-sensitive nose, a pest control company has trained dogs to sniff out bedbugs.

"Their noses are so far advanced that no human technology can keep up," Barry Beck, CEO of New York-based pest control company Assured Environments, told the New York Daily News. He said the company has four trained canines, including a 2-year-old beagle called Bugzy, who cleaned a child's bed recently. "He can be smelling dead bedbug bodies, eggs or their scent left behind," said its handler Mara Barksdale. Bedbugs have become a growing headache for New Yorkers. Every month, the city gets more than 2,700 complaints about the tiny blood suckers who also hide in clothes, subway seats, as well as luggage. Apparently, if the city doesn't get all the dogs to work together, the four dogs in Assured Environments will be exhausted with little achievements, because they cannot keep up with 100 calls the company gets every day, said Beck. The service costs $200 USD to $400 USD for each trained dog.