About - Bedbug detection services:

Meet Michael Tache and his wife Donna. Michael Tache is a certified trainer of American K-9 Private Investigators, Inc. and Canine " Ace and Tracer" - Massachusetts First Bedbug Detection Dogs.

Michael left behind a job as a sales manager and started American K-9 Private Investigators.

"I was making a six-figure income and decided, at 50 years of age, I was going to go off on my own," he said.

Michael became interested in the idea of battling bedbugs when a friend's home became infested and had to be treated four times. When he heard about bedbug-sniffing dogs, he realized that no one in the area was offering such a service, and his business was born.

Michael worked with a Florida master trainer, where dogs learn to detect anything from drugs to mold. Michael and the dogs have trained for hundreds of hours.

To keep the dogs' skills sharp, Michael uses a device that consists of a Lazy Susan with six metal spokes radiating from the center. At the end of each metal rod, a small cup that holds a plastic container with a tight-fitting lid.

Tracer, a beagle, and Ace, a Siberian husky-beagle mix, were rescued from an animal shelter in Kentucky.

"They go from doggie death row to bedbug investigator," Michael Tache said.

Science Behind The Nose...

According to a report prepared by the Institute for Biological Detection Systems (IBDS) of Auburn University (Auburn, AL), dogs have the following capabilities:

1. Sensitivity: Documented limits of olfactory detection for the dog range from tens of parts per billion to 500 parts per trillion.
2. Discrimination: Dogs are extremely good at discriminating a target vapor from non-target vapors that are also present, even at relatively high concentrations of non-target odors.
3. Odor Signatures: When being trained to detect a substance, dogs learn to alert to one or two of its most abundant vapor compounds.
4. Multiple Odor Discriminations: Dogs can easily learn as many as ten odor discriminations.

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