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Coastal K9 blog
Follow the Coastal K9 & Pest Solutions Blog for expert tips, industry insights, and helpful information on bed bugs, rodents, wildlife, bird control, exclusion services, and pest prevention throughout South Carolina. Stay up to date with the latest K9 detection techniques, prevention strategies, and solutions designed to protect your home, business, and property.
Norway Rat Burrows: The Complete Guide to Identifying, Treating, and Preventing Them
A complete guide to Norway rat burrows: how to identify a burrow system, why it overwhelms standard pest control, the risks it creates, and how detection-driven mitigation solves it.
How K9 Bed Bug Detection Works — And Why It Beats a Visual Inspection
A complete guide to K9 bed bug detection — how detection dogs work, how accurate they are, what an inspection looks like, and when to use one. By a NESDCA-certified handler.
Bird Control for Commercial Rooftops, Warehouses and Loading Docks
Commercial and industrial buildings are, from a pigeon’s perspective, superb cliff habitat
Goose Control for HOAs, Parks, Schools and Corporate Campuses
Retention ponds, community lakes, campus lawns, and school fields are magnets for Canada geese — and once a flock settles in, the complaints start
Goose Control for Golf Courses: Protecting Greens, Playability, and Your Members’ Patience
A golf course is close to a purpose-built goose habitat: open water, wide expanses of short, fertilized, irrigated grass, clear sightlines, and no natural predators.
Commercial Pest Compliance in South Carolina: What Inspectors and Auditors Actually Look For
Passing a pest-related inspection or audit is rarely about whether you have a pest control vendor — nearly everyone does.
Rodent Control for Warehouses and Food Facilities: Why Detection and Exclusion Beat Bait
In a warehouse or food facility, a rodent program built on bait stations alone is a program with no end date
K9 Bed Bug Inspections for Healthcare and Senior Living Facilities
Healthcare and senior living facilities face a version of the bed bug problem that’s harder than almost anywhere else: a constant flow of people and belongings, and residents.
Bed Bugs in Apartments: What Property Managers Need to Know
In a multifamily property, bed bugs are never really a single-unit problem — they’re a building problem that happens to have been reported by one resident