What Canine Rodent Detection Is

Canine rodent detection is the use of trained working dogs to find where rodents are living on a site. The dogs work by scent, so they locate active burrows, nests, and harborage whether or not anyone can see them.

A visual inspection reads evidence: droppings, sebum, footprints, tail drags, disturbed insulation. That works where the evidence is in view. It does not work under dense groundcover, beneath a deck, inside a planter, or across a building too large to inspect foot by foot. Detection answers the first question on any rodent job, which is where they are, so the work that follows goes in the right place.

How a Detection Visit Works

Walk the site. We go over the layout with you, what has been seen, and what has already been tried.

Work the dogs. Mia and Hugo are worked through the grounds and the building by their handler. When a dog indicates, that location is marked.

Confirm the find. The handler checks each indication for physical evidence: burrow openings, droppings, sebum, footprints, and tail drags that show the direction of travel.

Document it. Every confirmed location is photographed and recorded.

Report. You receive a written report showing where the activity is, how the rodents are moving, where they are getting in, and what to correct first.

Where Detection Is Used

Yards and landscaped grounds

Groundcover, ivy, planters, decks, sheds, and foundation lines hide burrow openings. The dogs find the burrow systems that people on foot walk past.

Apartment complexes and multi-unit properties

Large planted grounds with many possible sources. Detection shows which areas are active, so the whole property does not have to be treated as one problem.

Warehouses and distribution centers

Buildings too large to inspect by eye in a reasonable time. Our K9 team has worked detection across a 1.6 million square foot facility.

Food manufacturing and SQF facilities

Detection narrows a building down to the places that need attention, and the findings feed the facility's pest program and corrective actions.

In the Field

Detection · Pennsylvania

The dogs worked detection across a 1.6 million square foot facility, covering ground that a visual inspection could not cover in the same time.

Detection · Single-family property

At a large single-family home, the dogs located a nest in the yard and the rats living in it.

Dallas, Texas

Brought in to find what the operators already on the site could not.

What Comes Next

Detection tells you where the problem is. What follows depends on the site: canine rodent abatement to address the population in its burrows, a structural exclusion plan to close the building, or both. If you already have a pest management company, the findings go to them to act on.

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Canine Rodent Detection