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Anyone still wondering if dogs are better than cats?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/close-to-100-accuracy-airport...

Dogs are amazing.  But you knew that already.

Fab, covid procedures for our group canicross runs sorted then! Now, how to get the dogs trained up for it?! Lol

That is excellent, I would rather they test outgoing people too though. 

I've been swabbed at airports. They wipe your bags and put it in a machine, which looks for traces of drugs or explosives. There are also 'puffer' machines. They make you stand in a closed chamber and blow puffs of air at you. The air is sampled and chemicals can be identified. I wonder if a software update can make these machines spot diseases?

Amateurs. My cats could tell if I was opening a packet of butter from the bottom of the garden.

well they are more biddable

Cats can smell the virus too. They just don't care if you live or die.

Totally off the point, I know, but when I saw the word smell in the title I remembered the story about Webster the lexicographer. When accused by someone (his wife?) thus " Oh Webster, you do smell", like any good pedant would, he replied "No you smell, I stink". 

Smell is a very powerful sense, especially when triggering a response.  To this end, they experimented with using smell as a warning in fast jets - a strong smell of pear drops, for example, would mean 'pull up'.  Trouble was, if you had a bit of a sniffle, you flew into the hillside.....

My dog can smell a packet of crisps when next door but one open them