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Originally Posted by SaucyJim
The beagle inspection is real. I just had mine on my second TV home in order to get the termite insurance. .............. Beagles can smell them, which protects Dean’s financial interests, which is just sound business if you ask me.
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Make sense to me that dogs could be used for that purpose. They are trained to detect all sorts of things via scent. Bombs, drugs, human remains, chemicals, etc.
It's also now been realized that dogs (and cats) can sometimes detect cancer in their human owners before the owner has been diagnosed. I don't have all the details but, apparently, the scent of the human's urine can change and that's how the animal knows.
I had one friend who had skin with new moles that appeared sometimes and she'd get them checked every year. One time she had grown two new ones on her leg and her cat would come over and press it's nose against one of them, day after day, and only that one. She went to the dermatologist and, sure enough, that mole had the beginnings of melanoma. Good cat!