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If you can train a dog to sniff for gasoline or bodies or drugs or bombs, why not bed bugs?

That's the question some insurance companies posed in 1998 to Bill Whitstine of Safety Harbor, a former fire marshal whose arson dogs often detect accelerants after suspicious fires.

Now he has trained a huge number of dogs to pinpoint the location of bed bugs, an increasing source of problems. Whitstine's dogs are sniffing for insects in at least 30 states and as far away as Canada and Finland, and this spring he'll send some to Japan.

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Bed Bug Dog trains, certifies and sells bed bug-detecting dogs and offers a free web-based information and referral service for insurance and real estate professionals and homeowners.

"People have an idea they've got bed bugsin their house. The question is, where is it?" The dogs' accuracy in pinpointing the location is the advantage.

Each dog undergoes 800 to 1,000 hours of training, over two or three months, learning to identify bed bugs. Whitstine sells the trained dogs for a fee, which includes five days of training for two handlers, to operators of bed bug detection services.
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