Tigard man, dog track bed bugs for business

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by Cathy Marshall, KGW Staff

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Posted on January 13, 2014 at 7:05 PM

TIGARD, Ore. -- A Tigard man who can use his dog to track down bed bugs in your house says this is the high season.

Usually I hear from people after the holidays, they travel and bring them back on luggage or their out-of-town guests leave them, explained Marty Neiman of K9 Bug Detection NW.

Neiman purposely brings the bugs into his house so he can train his two-year-old German Shepherd to track them down. As long as theres a scent, you can train a dog to detect anything, he said.

In a demonstration at his home, Neiman hid 6 bed bugs in a vial in the corner of the couch. The dog, named Ruger, found them in less than two minutes.

If you took his scent membrane and laid it out on the floor it would be larger than his skin. They filter a tremendous amount, Neiman explained.

And it's a busy time for Neiman and Ruger. Neiman said Portlands bed bug complaints are 30 times what they were a few years ago.

New York is the worst about a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, the Midwest is a little better and Seattle has more of a problem than Portland, Neiman said.

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