Canines have been helping law enforcement agents for years to find bombs, drugs, people, and weapons. Jose "Pepe" Peruyero was a top trainer of police dogs for over a decade when he decided to switch focus to termites. Gidgit, the first of many termite detection dogs, was fully trained in 1999. At this point, Pepe began a five-year research project with respected Entomologist Dr. Koehler from the University of Florida to scientifically prove the effectiveness of termite detection canines.

A typical human inspector is only able to truly inspect approximately 30% of a home. Not anymore! Dogs can now inspect 100% of a home with an accuracy rate of 98-100%, documented by the University of Florida.

Dogs are able to check the inside of finished walls, doors, window frames, underneath floors, cinderblocks, behind appliances, and other hard to reach places to ensure an accurate termite inspection is performed.

This type of service is new and is exclusively offered to Central Florida by Falcon Termite & Pest Control.  We use this valuable detection tool in many different aspects of termite field work including:

• New Termite Treatments
  Once we have completed a new termite treatment we come back three months later and perform an interior and exterior dog inspection to ensure that the treatment eliminated all termites inside the structure.
   
• Real Estate Inspection / WDO Report
  Conventional wood destroying organism inspections are a thing of the past.  Dogs are able to inspect all aspects of a structure including hard too reach places and areas of a home where humans cannot inspect to ensure an accurate WDO report is performed.  Termite damage to structures is ever growing and now exceeds more than $5 billion per year. Buying a home is the biggest purchase most people make in their lives. The purchaser must know if there is any live and existing infestation of termites so they do not end up with a big problem down the road.

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