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Bed bug detection dog Toronto



Bed bug detection dog Toronto



Think you might have bed bugs? Waking up with unexplained bites? Have you looked around your bedroom and can't find anything?

You need a bed bug dog inspection!





Bed bugs can be hard to find! Especially when dealing with a new problem. The earlier stages of a bed bug's life present as very tiny bugs and they can be very difficult to see with the untrained eye.

Bed bug eggs are almost impossible to see, even if you know what to look for.

Enter the bed bug detection dog. These dogs are trained to sniff out even one bug or tiny little egg - and they can do it quickly!

The bed bug detection dog is relatively new to the inspection scene and have only been around for a few years. Their training is conducted much in the same way as bomb or drug detection dogs are trained.

The highest certification that a bed bug detection dog and handler can attain is that governed by NESDCA the National Entomology Scent Detection Canine Association. The dogs and their handlers are certified as a bed bug detection team utilizing strict guidelines and stringent testing. At this time,  NESDCA certification can only be obtained in the United States at only a few select locations. Operators from other countries (like Canada) invest significant amounts of time and large sums money in their bed bug dog program. Bed bug sniffing dogs can achieve close to 100% accuracy in a very short period of time and can conduct inspections in large areas such as movie theaters and hospitals - quickly with great success.

The bed bug dog can be used to accomplish a number of things. By far, most are used to a great extent to confirm (or not) that a bed bug infestation has made its way into a home, apartment or other living area. But, bed bug detection is also extensively used in hotels and other public areas as an ongoing bed bug prevention plan. Regular visits are made to these facilities to detect a bed bug problem in the early stages - this makes it much easier to rectify should one be detected.

Of late, more people are considering using bed bug dog detection to inspect a new home, condominium or apartment before moving in. In Toronto, there is not yet any legislation that requires a seller to disclose that there are bed bugs affecting the property that is for sale and savvy home buyers are realizing the importance of having a bed bug dog inspection prior to closing the deal.

The fight against bed bugs Toronto continues. Using a specially trained bed bug inspection dog is a wonderful and powerful tool that is being used more and more assist in that fight.


More information can be found at the Toronto bed bug dogs blog 
http://bed-bug-dog-toronto.blogspot.com/

Toronto Bed Bugs in the news

Looks like things are heating up in the political Toronto Bed Bugs spectrum - Could be expensive for tenants in the end.


Bed Bugs Toronto Apartments

Bed bugs in Toronto have been making headlines lately with the latest coming from Cheri DiNovo (NDP Parkdale - High Park) who very recently proposed a Private Member's Bill calling for Toronto landlords to be 'licensed'.

DiNovo proposes that, among other things, landlords should have to qualify for and obtain a license to rent apartment units to their tenants.

One requirment for license renewal - according to DiNovo, should be that a unit be declared "Bed bug free".  A lofty and righteous goal. However, declaring any space 'bed bug free' is harder to do than one would initially think it to be.

There are a number of ways that one can go about bed bug detection. K-9 bed bug scent detection better known as bed bug detection dogs, high tech devices that mimic a sleeping human by emitting special CO2 and synthetic human pheramones along with heat such as can be found at http://www.bedbugstoronto.net/bedbugstoronto.html , to simply sending in a licensed and experienced technician to do a thorough visual inspection of the usual hiding places to look for evidence of activity.

Each method above can be very successful - or not, depending on how the method was used and by whom. Any true professional bed bug exterminator will tell you that no matter what method of bed bug detection is used, none of them are 100% accurate. Even if it could be certified 100% that there were no bed bugs in a particular unit prior to someone renting it, the new renter could bring the problem in the very next day - or, an existing problem in an adjacent unit could very easily spread to the 'new' one just as easily. There is simply no way (at this time) to 'declare' anything 100%.

This brings us to the next perplexing problem: 

Should Toronto bed bug legislation be passed that would require landlords to "Certify a unit bed bug free" - an almost impossible thing to do -  a litany of litigation is sure to follow. Tenants will sue landlords, landlords will sue pest control companies, insurance companies will charge more to insure pest control companies against the onslaught of law suits that are sure to follow and they in turn will rightfully pass along that extra cost to the landlords who will ultimately demand that their extra cost of running the building be built into the next rent increase. In the end, it is the tenant that may ultimately pay for this legislation unless the politicians recognize this potential and come up with a way that will thwart it before it manifests itself against the bottom line of every renter in the Toronto area.