I thought that headline would get your attention.
PMPs (Pest Management Professionals) are quickly honing their bed bug-detecting and killing skills to meet the increasing demand to rid homes of bed bug infestations. But sometimes human instinct and senses aren’t enough to find those few bugs who are hidden deep within the recesses of a structure. According to this article in Pest Control Technology, one company of PMPs in Ontario decided to train and employ a dog especially trained to sniff out bed bugs. Thanks to the dog’s keen sense of smell, he was able to find the bed bugs-in the plumbing between the walls!
The training of bed bug-sniffing dogs is certainly a creative idea, and I would love to find such a company in New York to sniff out any surviving bed bugs in my own apartment. While almost all the bugs I’ve encountered in my home have been dead, I have seen one or two living bugs, proof of survivors. And where there’s smoke…
Maybe I’ll make that my homework assignment and throw up the results on Bugged Out.