It Seems that More and More Parents Are Using Drug Dogs to Sniff Out Teens' Weed Stash

[TexasTowelie]

There is, if news reports are to be believed, a new frontier in helicopter parenting. Suspicious moms and dads are hiring trained drug detection dogs to sniff out their kids' drug stash. The trend was first identified by the Today Show in December, which ran a story featuring a Houston mom who used a private K-9 service to discover that her teenage daughter was using marijuana.

CBS 11 was the latest outlet to sniff out the trend, reporting this weekend that North Texas parents, too, are afraid that their kids are using drugs, then hiding them in clever places a snooping parent might not even think to look.

"Air conditioning vents... Under the carpet, they'll peel back carpet and hide it under the carpet, under the linings of beds, behind bureaus in bedrooms," Richard Stannell, a private detective from Granbury's RK Agency Investigations, told the station.

Really, it's hard to tell how much of a trend home K-9 searches have become in North Texas. CBS 11 talks to no parents, experts, or other companies that provide the service, offering the RK Agency exclusive space to tout its $350 service, which is describes on its website:

More at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/03/it_seems_parents_are_using_dru.php .

[NotThisTime]

1. I'm all for it, when they own their own place they can do that crap in their own house

When I pay for my home they can keep the crap out, end of story...

[Whisp]

2. tough decisions for parents, for sure.

but helicoptering probably makes a problem where there really isn't one, or makes it worse.

But, every situation is different, every parent is and every kid is so whose to know what the right thing to do is, in the end.

When I discovered my early teenie was smoking weed I tried not to go hair on fire because I didn't want her to be frightened off and not be able to talk to me about things. Plus I didn't want to be a hypocrit because we like beer and alcohol around the house once in a while.

It was tough tho - not knowing if I was aiding and abetting something awful in the future with her and drugs in general, plus I was worried that some of her friends she smoked with would tell their parents and then I'd really be up shit creek. But ***'s mom let's us smoke! oiy.

In the end it all worked out, she got her experimenting done (and was pretty honest, I think, on letting me know what was going on) and over with.

I have no idea if this was just luck or how I handled it or what.