Do dogs smell checked baggage?

In the US airports you will find four different types of dogs. Explosive detecting dogs- these dogs are used by TSA to detect very minute amounts of explosives. It isn't uncommon for them to do a sniff test on checked luggage and occasionally carry ons.



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