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by vaadu 764 days ago
Money sniffing dogs? They train dogs to sniff for plants, food and drugs. Cash in baggage should be easy?
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But cash is everywhere, and it's not illegal to have it in your luggage if declared or below a certain amount. Seems like you'd get a ton of false positives as it would be very difficult to train a dog to only alert if it smells a lot of cash. But I did read another article that said they sprayed their vacuum packed cash bags with coffee and air freshener - don't know if that works that well against cash sniffing dogs.
Maybe cash sniffing elephants. Elephants can count, or at least scale, obscured items by smell.