by Cathy Marshall, KGW Staff <\/p>\n
kgw.com <\/p>\n
Posted on January 13, 2014 at 7:05 PM <\/p>\n
TIGARD, Ore. -- A Tigard man who can use his dog to track down bed bugs in your house says this is the high season. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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