I'm sorry but this is just gross:
Scarlett is suited up and ready to learn. The Labrador starts her school day on a training wheel, stopping at each can as she walks by. She sniffs for her target and finds it, earning praise from her handler.
"Yes! Good girl," Elizabeth Johnson tells her.
That's because, inside the can is an old sock once worn by someone who tested positive for COVID. When she gets it right, Johnston gives her, and her canine pal, Rizzo, a cookie.
Why socks?
The experts explained that in a human, most of the scent comes from the head, armpits, groin and feet.
"And in looking at those options, we went with feet," explained Early Alert Canines Executive Director Carol Edwards
Live look at the country's noble service dogs when told they're gonna have to start sniffing the nation's gym socks:
