Originally Posted by
VelvetJones
Yes, don't fear the CBP, but you will never get past the Beagles if they're in use. I was coming through Detroit once and they had a couple of Beagle at the bag pickup area outside customs. One of the Beagles started howling at a bag that was over 10 feet away. When he finally was allowed loose he started pouncing all over this woman's pull-along. The CBP agent asked her to open it up, it was full of cookies and pastries. I think she had some explaining to do.
This is still a perfect example of the stupidity of the TSA and their pat downs/NOS. I doubt anyone would object to a dog walking past them, and I would put good money on it that the dog is a 1000% more reliable then even the most advanced scanner and the brightest, highly qualified TSO. Still, as others have said, trained dogs cost only a few thousand dollars and will not enrich the bank accounts of certain former government officials, so I guess they're not a viable solution.
Training dogs can enrich the bank accounts of some former government officials, but nowhere near as quickly and on the scale to what expensive capital equipment with various kinds of affiliated service contracts can do for the same.
[There are ways to interfere with the effectiveness of dogs being used by the government to try to interdict contraband, whether it be explosives or untreated, fresh food stuff being sought.]