Working Dogs Sniff Out Bed Bugs!!

A particular hotel in Boston using the services of “ Advanced K-9 Detectives LLC,a company that has trained dogs who can “ detect and pin point the exact area of infestation” of bed bugs. The dogs are quick, accurate and can do the job in 2 minutes in a hotel room. This method has been approved by Boston’s Department of Health Inspectors!

The hotel chain Jury’s Boston Hotel a swanky 225 room hotel has not had bugs for almost 4 years as they have been using the Advantaged K-9 Services.This hotel has it all down to a science, if after the dogs locate the bugs the room is fumigated, and the mattress is burned. No fooling around here.

The dogs used are mixed Labradors on duty for a hotel search every 3 months at Jury‘s Boston Hotel, which indicates to me this is an ongoing problem but they are being pro-active.

As Nicole Wong points out even the Park Plaza hotel has had the bug problem and in warmer climates the bugs just thrive on human blood!! I find it horrible just to think about sleeping in a hotel bed and being eaten alive by bed bugs!!

Apparently there is a “ bed bug epidemic” out there in the hotel industry, which requires hotels to keep spraying their beds with insecticides which is even worse.

Over 50 years ago this problem was not so widespread thanks to a pesticide called DDT which is now banned. Now bed bugs have resurfaced to plague even the most elegant hotels as more people are traveling internationally.