Introducing Abby, our new Certified Canine Detection Dog! Download this Power Point presentation to read more about her...
Reasons for Canine Detection:
Proactive situational awareness = less liability & more peace of mind.
Cost Effective – Canines can complete a detection service in a standard hotel room in three minutes.
Accuracy – Cutting edge scent detection can pinpoint areas of activity for focused treatment protocols.
A dog’s “odor image” is much more detailed than a human’s perception of a photograph! For example, from a single drop of urine a dog can identify another dog’s sex, diet, health, emotional state and even if the dog is friend or foe, dominant or submissive.
Bed Bug dogs run a 90th percentile degree of accuracy, compared to an experienced pest management technician, whom average in the 30th percentile of accuracy, particularly in low level infestations.
Dogs have a documented olfactory range from tens of parts per billion to 500 parts per trillion. (Auburn University – Institute for Biological Detection Systems)
Discrimination: Dogs can easily discriminate between 10 odor types. Dogs are very good at discriminating between target and non-target odors, even in the presence of high levels of non-target odors.
Verification – Follow-up inspection to a treatment verifies successful control of a treatment or flush out fraudulent claims.
Integrity – Dogs are trained to work for food and affection, not profits.
Proven – Canine scent detection is used to detect termites, mold, arson accelerants, drugs, pirated DVDs, weapons, and currency.
Court Acknowledged – Certified canine detection dogs are recognized in court as a scientific instrument. (US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals)
Training / Certification – 800 hours of individualized training exclusively for bed bugs by a Certified Master Trainer, followed by quarterly and annual recertification conducted by the canine academy.
