Call 1-800-920-0906 today to have Sara or Rex search your
location.
You've heard of Bomb dogs? Drug dogs? Arson
dogs? Now, Man's Best Friend is the latest weapon in the war on
bedbugs.
Traditional bedbug detection methods can be very time
consuming and labor intensive. Certified Bedbug Dogs generate quicker
and more accurate results. For example, the bedbug canine can search the
average hotel room in less than two minutes.
Bed Bug
Expertise:
Education Facilities - Private Schools, Local Schools,
Colleges, & Universities
Health Care - Nursing Homes / Hospitals
Hospitality
- Hotels / Motels
Government
Manufacturing
Property Management
- Apartment Complexes, High Rises
Rich Wilbert
searches for bed bugs with his dog, Sara. Dogs are
trained to sniff along baseboards, beds and
furniture for the pheromones, the faint chemical
odor that the insects emit to signal one another.
(Michael
Nagle / For The Times)
A trained
professional inspector will only detect visible signs of bed bugs in
a room with an accuracy rate of only about 30%. To find activity
inside walls, baseboards, even under carpets, a room would have to
otherwise be stripped down beyond the bare walls!
Due to a dog’s
keen sense of smell, our trained dog can detect bed bugs even inside
walls - with 90% accuracy, making his inspection a more thorough and
accurate one. A more accurate detection means that if there is bed
bug activity, our dog will be alerted to it and control measures can
begin. Also note, no preps are needed prior to the dog.
You've heard of Bomb dogs? Drug dogs? Arson
dogs? Now, Man's Best Friend is the latest weapon in the war on
bedbugs.
Traditional bedbug detection methods can be very time
consuming and labor intensive. Certified Bedbug Dogs generate quicker
and more accurate results. For example, the bedbug canine can search the
average hotel room in less than two minutes.
"Man’s best friend" has been used for years by
military and law enforcement agencies to detect bombs and drugs, among
other things.
KYW's Michelle Durham spoke to
John Russell, general manager of Action Termite and Pest Control
about how you get bedbugs and what it takes to get rid of
them.
See Sara, Action's Bed Bug Dog locate an
infestation in New York.
The
Effective Use of Bed Bug Dogs
There is no ABSOLUTE in the
detection of Bed Bugs to date. The closest to an ABSOLUTE
can be found in the recent arrival of the Certified BB Dog.
At a detection rate of 98%, the Certified Bed Bug Dog’s
effectiveness yields but a 2% margin of error, one easily
eradicated by the Action Pest Control Team’s credo of 100%
satisfaction. This means effectively:
We
ABSOLUTELY guarantee our work.
As of late there have been
many changes in the world of Bed Bug detection and
eradication, and the introduction of properly executed
Canine Scent Detection techniques (BED BUG DOGS) have proven
to be the leaders of the pack.
Anyone who has ever owned a
dog, no matter how small or large, well behaved or
mischievous, can appreciate the ability of the canine to
detect above and beyond many human senses: be it taste,
scent or sound. How often have you found your dog taking
YOU for a walk as he pulled you in a different direction?
How about when he would not listen while concentrating on an
unnamed, unseen substance or trail that caused you to pull
him back?
Now employ this rationale
to a greater degree, and train that same dog to listen,
smell, taste, and find ONLY the source of anything you
want?. . .innocent victims, children lost to us, murderers
and thieves unknown, drugs, bombs: why, even thirty feet of
water cannot keep a trained dog with a proper handler from
finding what he is after.
At Action Termite and Pest
Control, our dogs have been trained by the best in the field
to be hard workers and friend to man. A true BB Dog must be
trained daily, kept active and healthy, and be constantly
aware of his/her objectives. ACTION is consistent in all
such respects.
Certified Bed Bug Dogs
Sarah and Rex are not pets, they are an invaluable part of
the Action Team, and as such are treated with the love and
respect they deserve. Amazingly, they seem unerringly eager
to do their jobs, finding an obvious sense of gratification
in what they do, all the while needing only the praise and
love of the handlers to fuel them forward.
Take a closer look at the Bedbug Dog...
From a single drop of urine, the sniffing dog
learns the marking animal’s sex, diet, health, emotional state,
and even whether it’s dominant or submissive, friend or foe.
Tracking dogs follow a biochemical trail of
dead skin cells, sweat, odor molecules, and gasses.
For dogs, a scent article is like a
three-dimensional “odor image” - much more detailed than a
photograph is for a person.
Dogs can track a scent through snow, air, mud,
water, and even ash.
The properly trained and certified detection
dog is recognized in court as a "scientific instrument" (US 9th
Circuit Court of Appeals)
New Jersey, Philly, and NYC Bed Bug
Dogs are a great way to detect Bed Bugs
Action Pest Control is certified by the Florida
Canine Academy.
Utilizing Action Pest Control to
eliminate Bed Bug Infestations is a cost effective way to rid your
facility of these nasty pests. Action's Bed Bug Dogs save time, money
and help us make your environment clean.
Hotels, motels, hospitals, long term
Health Care facilities and Homeowners can now benefit from the extremely
accurate detection of bed bugs that only a bed-bug detection dog can
offer!
Call 1-800-920-0906!
Please review the following to learn more about Action Termite & Pest Control
of New Jersey from our recent press clippings:
Action Appears on Front Page of
Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This article also appeared in the following:
COLUMN ONE
By Bob
Drogin
A Dogged Pursuit of Bedbugs
There's high demand for dogs that are
trained to track down the tiny, bloodsucking
parasites, which have invaded cities in the last
four years.
Reporting from Asbury Park, N.J. -
Sara pulled on her leash, sniffing up one side of a
cluttered bedroom and snuffling down the other. The
black Labrador retriever suddenly sat beside an
armchair.
Rich Wilbert, her handler, flipped the chair over
and poked at the stuffing and seams. He spotted
pin-sized drops of human blood -- clear signs of an
infestation of bed bugs in the small apartment.
"Good girl, Sara," Wilbert said. He fed her a few
treats from a bag as a co-worker made a note to
treat the room with insecticide. Sara went back to
searching for Cimex lectularius, as she does
six days a week.
A working dog's life is not easy. Some canines gain
glory by sniffing out bombs, drugs or land mines,
but most do less glamorous labor. Beagles hunt
home-munching termites, terriers track toxic fumes
from Chinese drywall, and collies chase Canada geese
off golf courses.
Bed bugs are the latest dirty job. Largely
eradicated in the United States after World War II,
the tiny, bloodsucking parasites have invaded city
after city in the last four years, leaving painful
skin welts and pricey pest control bills from Boston
to San Francisco.
One result: Many pest control companies --
especially those that use bed bug detection dogs --
are riding high despite the economic recession.
They typically charge $500 to $1,000 to treat a
small apartment or office. That buys a trained dog
to detect the reddish-brown vermin, heavy
applications of sprayed steam and chemicals to kill
the insects and their eggs, and a follow-up visit
with the dog to make certain the nasty nocturnal
varmints are really gone.
Bed bugs hide during the day in wall cracks, behind
light switches, or in other dark places. But the
dogs sniff along baseboards, beds and furniture for
the pheromones, the faint chemical odor that the
insects emit to signal one another, and then alert
the handler of an enemy invasion.
At Action Termite and Pest Control, based in Toms
River, N.J., general manager John Russell said his
business has grown by 30% this year thanks to Sara,
Rex and Cassie, his three dogs. He is adding to his
46-member staff and plans to buy a fourth dog.
"The phone has been ringing off the hook," he said.
"We used to get maybe one or two calls a year. Now
we get 10 to 15 a day."
Among the recent jobs: an $80,000 contract to
eradicate bed bugs from four apartment blocks owned
by the Atlantic City Housing Authority. His dogs
also sniffed their way through two office towers in
mid-Manhattan and a luxury hotel in Philadelphia.
Sara checks an apartment in Jersey City, N.J.
Bed bugs have invaded city after city in the
last four years, leaving painful skin welts and
pricey pest control bills from Boston to San
Francisco.
Bedroom search
(Michael
Nagle / For The Times)
Sara will "alert" her handler,
Rich Wilbert, when she picks up
signs of bed bugs, which hide
during the day in wall cracks,
behind light switches or in
other dark places.
Mattress check
(Michael
Nagle / For The
Times)
Many pest
control
companies �
especially those
that use bed-bug
detection dogs �
are riding high
despite the
economic
recession.
Signs of bed
bugs
(Michael
Nagle / For The
Times)
Rich Wilbert
points out
evidence of
bed bugs in
an apartment
in Jersey
City, N.J.
Crib
check
(Michael
Nagle / For
The Times)
Rich
Wilbert
searches
for bed
bugs
with
Sara in
an
apartment
in
Jersey
City,
N.J.
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