Bug sniffing dogs. Who woulda thunk. The first time someone ordered such a beast, the clerk's half of the phone call may have gone like this:

"K9s-R-Us, how can I help you?"...."A drug sniffing dog? No problem"...."What, not a drug sniffing dog? What kind of sniffing did you say?" "Bug!!!?"...."Is this a joke? Is this Tom?"...."This really isn't a joke then, you really want a bug sniffing dog. OK. Just what kind of bugs do you need this bug sniffing dog to sniff?....Red bugs?....Oh, BED bugs. Riiight. Look I've got real work to do, so I'm going to hang up now. ByBy.

I told Dan in his earlier post when he said he was sniffered at the airport that maybe they were checking for bedbugs. You just never know.

I was worried at first when I read the headline, then I realized "Oh, Lincoln CENTER, not Lincoln Square Cinemas. Whew!"

I just going to butt in an be logical here ... how are dressing rooms at all a surprising or improbable place for bedbugs? You've got lots of people who are traveling all around, staying in hotels (bedbug hotspots), and bringing a lot of stuff with them to a dressing room. It would be surprising if Lincoln Center didn't have bedbugs.

As a person who lives in a bedbug infested building, is very attractive to bedbugs and gets huge welts but almost never gets bitten any more (with a bedbug proof mattress encasement, the occasional spray with professional grade insecticide, regular vacuuming, and lots of diatomaceous earth), I wish everyone would just calm down about bedbugs.

Having lived in apartments with both bedbugs and fleas, and getting much smaller and less painful welts from fleas than from bedbugs, I prefer the bedbugs. Fleas jump, but bedbugs only crawl (and fall), and it's pretty easy to bedbug proof your bed.