How Does BellEnvironmental Maintain The Quality Of Its Canines And Perform Inspections?
Bell Environmental’s scent dogs have been trained to pinpoint bed bugs where they’re located. Our dogs indicate with a passive alert: our canines nod and point when they find live bugs or eggs. The dogs are not trained to bark as a form of alerting for bed bugs. Do not be fooled people who say “wherever the dog barks there must be a bug.” The dogs will alert to the areas where the bugs tend to live and hide- the bed, the furniture, wall outlets, and carpet seams- but due to air currents carrying scent, the indication will be in a four foot radius of where bug or egg is. Bell Environmental’s canines are trained to alert to live bed bugs and viable eggs. Their training takes place multiple times each day, in addition to field work. The trainers also perform physical conditioning with the dogs and maintain their health and well-being. Our dogs are working dogs and who have a residence at our office. Our canines do not go home with our handlers. Our handlers and trainers are committed to t
