Good Dogs Excel At New Trick Of Covid Detection At Miami Airport - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Rachel Maddow reports on a new program at Miami International Airport that uses dogs trained to sniff out Covid infection as a preliminary check of airport staff arriving to work. Aired on 09/10/2021.

[RainCaster]

1. The dogs she showed were working breeds

Malenois & Dutch Shepherd. IMO, beagles would be better suited for this. They are are less intimidating for most people, which is why the state of Hawaii uses then for AG scuffing at the airports. Plus they have even better noses then the working breeds.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Well, these dogs seem to be doing pretty well, but you're right about beagles

I'd think that the only disadvantage would be that everyone would want to pet them.

[RainCaster]

3. I have beagles & a GSD

I love them all, but never feed a beagle. They will get sidetracked by food if given the chance.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Awww! Sound like lovely dogs, but aren't most dogs like that?

I've had cocker spaniels and each one has been very different. But now I've had two Brussels Griffons. My Jack would not be good at this at all - I took him to puppy class twice.

[RainCaster]

5. not like beagles...

I could tell so many stories about their gluttony. One of our bitches stole cookies off our kitchen counter until she had eaten her fill. Then she hid many more for later in the couch cushions. They are food motivated more than any other breed I have ever seen. Cockers might be second, but it's not close. That is why beagles are pictured on the overweight dog food bags.
Our GSDs have been the opposite, and very hard for a stranger to bribe.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I'll have to ask my friend if she's experienced that, she loves beagles the best

And I've had fussy dogs, but that may be my fault. The cocker I grew up with was impossible to give a pill to - if she sussed out the pill when I tried to hide it in any kind of food, she'd refuse that food from then on so I'd have to try something else.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Right, dogs shown look like working dogs, on official business.

So maybe people won't pet these dogs and make over them, disrupting the work day.

[SunSeeker]

7. Well Cobra the Malenois is 99.1% accurate. How do you get any better than that?

We don't even have a PCR test that accurate!

[Irish_Dem]

9. A friend in cancer research told me dogs are more effective detecting cancer than any lab test.

But the public and insurance companies would never go for this form of testing.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Dogs are adept in detecting all manner of things, like a patient who is about to have a seizure

And I've read that too, that they can detect illness before it would register on any test. One would think that the public and companies would welcome that since they can detect illness before it becomes severe.

[Irish_Dem]

12. I agree, I don't understand the resistance.

I think the medical community doesn't believe it meets professional standards even though the research is there.

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10. Oh great...

Now DeSantis, Abbott & Noem will ban dogs in their states.