actual lecture : TheBoston Museum of Fine Artsjust engage the cutest security measures guard and we are entirely taken with .

Meet Riley , a 12 - week - old Weimaraner puppy being trained to sniff out invasive – hem – bugs .

Yeah , you interpret that right . Apparently invasive pests hitchhike ride on museum - goers and unexampled specimen , potentially negative valuable artwork .

" Weimaraners are very intelligent and have an incredible gumption of odor . Riley ’s duties as a scent dog at the MFA are well suitable to his breed ! " say the museum ’s public relations coach Ashley Bleimes in an e-mail to IFLScience . Riley belong to Nicki Luongo , music director of the museum ’s protective services department , who will also be training the pupper .

The museum ’s deputy director Katie Getchellsaidto her knowledge Riley is the first puppy to take on museum pestis .

Insects are a common concern for museums . Using thetrojan horsemethod , they can get a ride on fabric , forest , plant , textiles , and even books ( to name a few ) .   Riley ’s acute sense of smell will be adding to anextensive listof measures already in position to prevent plague .

Museums often fall under attack from strange creepy crawlies . In 2011 , some ofBritain ’s biggest museumsfell under the siege of net wearing apparel moth that manducate through worthful wool , silk , cotton , and other historic fabrics .

It ’s not just the great unwashed that gadfly catch a ride on . London ’s Natural History Museumopened a United States Department of State - of - the - art quarantine facility where aggregator screen incoming specimens to secure they are freeloader free .

Curators have a issue ofclever waysto deal with unwelcome pain in the neck . Hidden sticky traps allow them to catch and   judge whattype of pestis feeding , pooping , or digging its fashion through the museum . Once identify , specialists will use a combination of climate control method to down the hemipterous insect .

Here ’s where Riley come in .

If you have n’t already get a line from your own pooch , dog ’ noses are fairly impressive . They have as many as 300 million olfactory sense organ – us measly humans have just 6 million . Not only that , the part of a dog ’s brain that is devoted to analyze odor is40 times greaterthan ours . Imagine coffee smelling 40 times better than it already does ?

Even though Riley will in the first place act upon behind the scenes and still involve more than a year of training , he ’s already a hit in the Twittersphere .