Didn't someone train a dog a few years ago to detect
> AFB.
Yes they did.  Worked great.  Problem was obvious.  How many dogs are going
to want to stick their hairy, meat-breath snouts into beehive entrances more
than once?  A far better tactic would be to train bears : )
Bears have one big advantage in that we already have plenty of feed for
them--in fact I fed a big one four colonies yesterday (no smiley).
Randy Oliver

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