Bed bug dogs are a popular tool used in the detection of infestations. The dogs can dramatically reduce the level of inspection required, make infested buildings more inhabitable and reduce the chance of a customer moving into an infected property. It is for these reasons that bed bug dogs have become increasingly popular over the last several years. However, despite how useful some say that dogs can be, there is a lot of speculation and debate within the industry as to whether they actually do help eliminate or reduce bed bugs or whether they are a simple public relations tool. “It is no news to say that bedbug dogs are getting more and more popular every year. Nearly every pest control company nowadays has a trained dog as one of their main tools for finding out if a building has been infested by bedbugs or not. However, being a relatively new practice there are still few things about bedbug dogs that are not so obvious or well known to people. That is why I have decided to write this article.”

Bed Bug Dogs Accuracy

A dog’s sense of smell is much more advanced than a human’s.

Your dog’s sense of smell is much more advanced than your own. Dogs can smell in parts per trillion, and they have over 220 million scent receptors in their nose compared to humans who only have about 5 million. A human’s sense of smell is roughly one-thousandth as strong as a dog’s, so dogs can detect odors that are thousands of times weaker than what we would be able to recognize!

When you consider all these facts together, it makes sense that dogs are used for such things as police work or search and rescue missions because they can follow trails that no other animal could find. They even use their noses to determine whether their owner has been eating something he shouldn’t have (like chocolate) by smelling the chemicals that are released when we digest certain foods!

But how does this relate to bed bugs? Well…

A good bed bug dog can catch bugs in places humans would never check.

When you think of bed bugs, you probably picture them crawling on your mattress or hiding in the cracks of a nightstand. But did you know that they can also be found in places like air ducts and electric outlets? These areas are hard to reach for humans, but not for a bed bug dog!

A good bed bug dog can smell even the tiniest trace of bed bugs—even if those trail signs are hidden deep within a pillow or behind walls. That’s how they work their magic: by sniffing out these infinitesimal clues with their keen sense of smell.

Dogs can work quickly.

Humans have a lot of limitations. We don’t have the ability to smell bed bugs, and we’re limited by the speed of our eyes. Dogs can sniff out bed bugs much faster than humans can. Humans are limited to areas that are visible, but dogs can use their sense of smell to check inside walls, under floors and even inside furniture such as beds and dressers. They can also detect them in small spaces like wall voids or mattresses where humans would never be able to look without tearing apart the structure itself!

In summary: Dog detection is fast!

There’s less chance of a false positive with bed bug dogs.

• Dogs aren’t distracted by other insects or human smells. A dog is trained to sniff out only the scent of a bed bug and nothing else, which means that there’s no chance of them confusing another insect for a bed bug or getting distracted by an odor from laundry detergent.
• Dogs have fewer false positives than humans do. Humans can easily mistake other insects as bed bugs and report them as such, leading to wasted time and money on unnecessary treatments. If a person makes a mistake as simple as this one, it could cost thousands in terms of labor costs, lost business revenues due to missed appointments/meetings/etc., etc., etc.. But because dogs don’t make mistakes like these in their work ethic (they’re trained specifically not to), they tend to be more accurate than humans when it comes time for detection surveys

A dog is less likely to miss bed bugs than humans are.

It’s important to note that a bed bug dog can find bugs in places that humans would never think to look. This is because dogs are trained to sniff out live bugs, and humans need to be actively looking for them. But even if you’re looking for bed bugs and you have one of those people who constantly says, “I’ll get it later,” there’s still a chance that the bugs might have moved from their hiding places before anyone else got around to dealing with them. So it’s not just about finding live bedbugs; it’s about finding any signs that there were ever any at all (e.g., eggs or feces).

Bed bug dogs are trained on live specimens.

Bed bug dogs are trained on live specimens. Dogs are trained to detect the scent of live bed bugs by placing the frozen bed bug in their mouth, or smelling it with their nose and then waiting for a reward before giving off a signal that they have found it. This is done in a repetitive manner until the dog learns how to do this correctly.

The dogs are then tested again on an actual bed with live bed bugs present and rewarded for finding them. If there is no reward system, many times the dog will not be able to tell if he has detected any scent at all and will simply lie down signaling “nothing”. Dogs are also trained on different scents such as dead bodies or feces so that they don’t mistake one odor for another when searching through large spaces like apartment buildings or homes where both types of odors may exist at once

Dogs can be very effective at finding bed bugs that humans would miss.

Bed bug dogs are an excellent solution for detecting these pests. Dogs can be very effective at finding bed bugs that humans would miss. They are trained to sniff out the scent of live bed bugs, as well as shed skins, eggs and fecal matter left behind by the insects.

Dogs can also find bed bugs in places that you might not think to look:

• Behind walls
• In cracks and crevices of furniture or floors
• Underneath baseboards or moldings If a dog detects an odor on an item (like your couch) it will indicate this by sitting or laying down next to it with its nose pointed toward it. This indicates there is a high probability of bedbugs being present in this location!