This Dog Is An Expert At Keeping You Safe From Bedbugs!

Remember Roscoe the Super Sniffer? Well, he’s an expert at keeping us safe from bed bugs!

Roscoe the Super Sniffer is a working dog trained to sniff out bedbugs! Yes, you read correctly, bedbugs! With a super skilled sense of smell, Roscoe is one of many dogs who travels all over to sniff out these pesky critters.

Roscoe, like many other super sniffers, comes from a dog shelter. Companies such as Rose Pest Solutions approach shelters to find potential candidates for their programmes. They pick out high energy dogs that are younger and are highly driven by food. By adopting these dogs, companies also provide a home for many fur-faced pooches that might never be given a second chance.

Once these dogs are adopted or rescues, they start with basic training skills such as obedience before progressing to being taught search patterns and identification of live or dead bugs. At the end of the training process, these dogs are so well trained they are said to have the ability to sniff out a rotting apple in a pile of two million apples! After numerous hours of training, the super sniffers are ready for action and can trace bugs with ease.

Using this form of pest control is a positive way of supporting companies who have taken the initiative to go out and save dogs who are stuck in shelters with no chance of a home. This is also a sustainable way to find pests that harm the surrounding environment! The story of Roscoe and his super sniffing abilities is an eye-opener for us all when we think about how phenomenal our canine companions truly are, and how we can support worthy causes in the future!

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