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“ALL OUT Wildlife Control has a Search Dog! Dobro is a Beagle who has extensive training and experience in finding the source of odors and noises (alive or dead animals, or even an unplugged freezer!).

She loves her job, and really enjoys the ongoing training we give her. This is what she was born to do. She would really appreciate if you put her amazing skills to work when you get that animal that’s lost in your basement, or that bad odor that’s making your house unlivable. Just like the rest of us, Dobro goes ALL OUT to solve your problem.”

About a year ago (Feb. ’09) I got a call from a lady in a townhouse-type condo (attached on both sides, two stories plus basement) for a dead smell. She told me that the smell was intermittent over several weeks. I loaded up Dobro, our search dog, and headed her way. After about 15 minutes of interviewing/sniffing, I decided that the smell was 1. indeed a dead animal, and 2. coming from the basement ceiling, in the middle of the house. It was a faint smell, but it was undeniably there. As the woman had a dog, I had not brought Dobro inside yet, but I now did so to confirm my diagnosis. Dobro made a quick trip around the first floor, without marking anything, so we went to the basement. After a couple of trips around a very full basement, she kept returning to the back wall, where there was a non-descript jungle of washer/dryer, freezer, old furniture, household items in storage, etc. Dobro continually returned to one corner, so I checked it out more closely. The more stuff I moved, the stronger she indicated a “find”. I realized that she was interested in the back of the freezer. I didn’t notice any smell there, but I was able to find the edge of the freezer lid, and lifted it. BINGO!! The homeowner, her cleaning woman and I took about eight trash bags of rotten food out of that freezer, including several (previously) frozen turkeys dated from 1997. Why was she saving 12 year old frozen turkeys?

As the lady told me, a repairman had been working in that area of the basement several months earlier, and must have unplugged the freezer to plug in his tools. Obviously, he didn’t plug the freezer in afterward.

I learned two lessons from this:

*a search dog will not be swayed or convinced by anything a customer says or does; she just finds the animal or smell, no matter what anybody else says about where it is.

*an unplugged freezer, I learned from a friend, will “burp” from time to time as it releases the gases produced by rotting materials. If the freezer has a good door gasket, this will go on for months, without any huge amount of smell, until all the foodstuffs have rotted away–or somebody opens the door. (Whew!)

We are the only wildlife control professionals in this area who can make these statements.

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