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Beagle Brigade Sniffs Out Agricultural Contraband at Dallas-Area Airport.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2001
By Mark Wrolstad, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 17--Sam pads along beneath the knees of his admiring and often uninformed public, never giving his smile or his nose a rest.
Outfitted in a smart green vest, he's just about the happiest federal worker on four legs, and he knows how to work a crowd at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
As the veteran snoop weaves around the shinbones of hundreds of incoming international travelers, sniffing their baggage and boxes for contraband, he's routinely mistaken as a canine drug-detector.
But Sam's mission, with about 65 other dogs in the Department of Agriculture's growing Beagle Brigade, is to ferret out food and other material that can harbor foreign...
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