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It doesn't matter how well trained a dog is, a lot of people are scared of dogs.

A lot of people are scared of needles, too. And yet we still inject people all the time.

Because there are medications that "must" be administered intravenously or in the muscle. There's no test that can only be performed via canine.

Devil’s advocate: “yet”.

> There's no test that can only be performed via canine.

Because we haven't developed any.

Well yes, but clearly some tests dont't need to be performed with a needle anymore - we can use a dog

That's true, but it's not relevant here... we're talking about reliability.

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