Think your kid's smokin' the reefer? Excuse the trip back in time, but the company renting out drug dogs so parents can take them tromping through their teens' bedrooms seems, well, like Joe McCarthy's back and teaching parenting classes.
Sniff Dogs has offices in Ohio and New Jersey and five Labrador retrievers who they say can catch a whiff of a doobie from as far as 15 feet away. The dogs are in and out of the room in five minutes, and the process only happens when a parent is at home. They're even trained to stop and sit at the spot where the scent is strongest, so parents can have the ultimate decision as to whether they want to search the spot or just bring the kids in, have the chat and see if the kids will own up themselves.
None of us want to see our kids on drugs, but isn't this a little . . . I don't know . . . Gestapo-esque? Whatever happened to confronting your kids on your own authority instead of the know-how of a dog's nose? Or making them systematically take their room apart while you watch and direct?
If you're afraid of alienating your kid with an old-fashioned parent-to-kid confrontation, calling in the canines will certainly leave them howling.
Image: Sky News
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