Coastal K-9 & Pest Solutions is a family-owned canine detection and pest management company based in Windsor, South Carolina. Founder Kimberly Camera talks to journalists, podcasters and industry media about scent-detection dogs — what the published research actually supports, and where the honest limits of the work sit.
Most pest control coverage runs into the same wall: everyone in the industry has a claim, and very few of those claims come with a citation. Kim Camera came to this work from an unusual direction — more than 28 years in scent detection, canine work for FEMA Urban Search & Rescue, wildlife tagging, and falconry — and she is comfortable saying on the record when the evidence for something is thin.
That is the reason producers keep calling, and it is the reason this page exists. Below you will find every published appearance, the subjects Kim can speak to in detail, copy-ready biographies at three lengths, and a plain list of the industry claims she will not repeat on air. If you are working to a deadline, the fast-facts table has everything you need to fact-check a mention.
Two interviews are published and publicly available. Both are linked to their original hosts rather than re-hosted here.
Mike Thome and Jen Sweeney-Ingram of UPMTC talk with Kim about arriving in pest control after a career in wildlife tagging, falconry and canine work for FEMA Urban Search & Rescue. The conversation covers running detection dogs against heavy rodent populations, and how the family business grew into bed bug detection and nuisance wildlife work across the country.
A sit-down on the daily reality of scent work: how a dog is handled through a building, the order the rooms get covered in, and what separates a useful indication from a guess. Kim walks through the process behind a rodent detection or bed bug inspection and the lessons that only come from years of running the same dogs on real jobs.
These are subjects she works in daily and can discuss with specifics rather than generalities. If your angle is not here, ask anyway — the answer may simply be that it falls outside what she would claim expertise in.
The difference between a dog that has been trained and a team that has been certified and tested to a published standard, and why the distinction matters to a customer.
Screening a room in roughly two minutes, why a visual sweep misses eggs and early activity, and what a handler does when a dog indicates on a wall shared with the next unit.
Structural rodent detection does not have the published field validation that bed bug detection has. Kim will say so on the record rather than quote a number nobody can source.
Why sealing a building beats another round of bait, what secondary poisoning does to raptors and pets, and how an exclusion-first programme is priced and sold.
What a flown bird genuinely does to a site’s risk profile, what two controlled landfill studies found, and why the effectiveness figures circulating in the trade press do not hold up.
Running canine detection across distribution networks and food plants, and what documentation an auditor is actually looking for.
Canine work for FEMA Urban Search & Rescue, and how that training transfers — and does not transfer — to commercial pest detection.
Going from a specialised skill to a working company, including the parts that were harder than expected.
This is unusual to publish, and it is deliberate. Several figures circulate freely in pest control marketing that we have not been able to source. If an interviewer offers one of these as a premise, expect it to be corrected rather than accepted.
Three lengths, all cleared for publication. Please use the hyphenated company name, Coastal K-9 & Pest Solutions, in body copy.
Kimberly Camera is the founder of Coastal K-9 & Pest Solutions in Windsor, South Carolina. She has spent more than 28 years in scent detection, including canine work for FEMA Urban Search & Rescue, and runs certified detection teams for bed bugs, rodents and wildlife.
Kimberly Camera founded Coastal K-9 & Pest Solutions, a family-owned canine detection and pest management company based in Windsor, South Carolina. She came to pest control after more than 28 years in scent detection, including canine work for FEMA Urban Search & Rescue, wildlife tagging and falconry. Her teams hold NESDCA, WDDO, CPDA and ICRWDA credentials and work on bed bug and rodent detection locally across the CSRA and Midlands, and nationwide on multi-site commercial programmes. She is a recipient of the NPMA Impact Award.
Kimberly Camera is the founder of Coastal K-9 & Pest Solutions, a family-owned canine detection and pest management company based in Windsor, South Carolina. She spent more than 28 years in scent detection before entering pest control, including canine work for FEMA Urban Search & Rescue, wildlife tagging, and falconry — a background that shaped how she runs the company today. Her detection teams hold NESDCA, WDDO, CPDA and ICRWDA credentials and screen for bed bugs, rodents and nuisance wildlife in homes, hotels, apartment buildings, warehouses, food plants and institutional facilities. Locally the company works across the Central Savannah River Area and the South Carolina Midlands; nationally it runs canine rodent detection programmes for multi-site operators. Camera is a recipient of the NPMA Impact Award. Her public position is that detection is only useful when it is honest: she publishes what the research supports, states where it stops, and corrects industry claims that cannot be sourced — including several that are commercially convenient for her own company. She is available for interviews on canine scent detection, exclusion-first pest management, bird and falconry abatement, and the practical realities of running working dogs as a small business.
| Company name | Coastal K-9 & Pest Solutions |
|---|---|
| Spokesperson | Kimberly Camera, founder |
| Headquarters | 320 Wendy Lane, Windsor, South Carolina 29856 |
| Phone | 803-226-3155 |
| Kim@ck9ps.com | |
| Service area | The CSRA and South Carolina Midlands for local detection and treatment work; nationwide for canine rodent detection programmes. See service areas. |
| Canine certifications | NESDCA, WDDO, CPDA, ICRWDA |
| Recognition | Recipient of the NPMA Impact Award. Detail on awards and recognition. |
| Background | 28-plus years in scent detection; FEMA Urban Search & Rescue canine work; wildlife tagging; falconry |
| Formats to date | Audio podcast and recorded video interview |
| Images and b-roll | Tell us what you need and we will send what we have. Please do not lift images from this site without asking first. |
| Best contact method | Phone or email. Kim is often in the field, so email with your deadline in the subject line gets the fastest answer. |
Tell us what the story is actually about and who the audience is. It lets Kim prepare specifics instead of generalities, and it lets us tell you honestly if someone else would serve you better.
Put it in the subject line. Field work runs long and a recording window that looks open on Monday may not be open on Wednesday.
Audio, video, live or recorded, and roughly how long. If you want a dog on camera, say so early — that is a scheduling and animal-welfare question, not a logistics one.
If it rests on a statistic, we will check it before recording. That is not an obstacle; it is the reason the interview will hold up afterwards.
We are glad to show the work, and we will not stage it. A detection dog indicates on target odour that is actually present, and a handler who cues a dog to indicate on a clean room is teaching that dog to lie for the rest of its working life. If a filmed demonstration is part of your plan, we will set up a genuine search with a known target so the footage shows a real find. What we will not do is fake an alert for the camera, and any company that agrees to is telling you something about how it works when nobody is filming.
Kimberly Camera directly, at Kim@ck9ps.com or 803-226-3155. She is the founder and the spokesperson, and there is no press office in between. Email tends to be faster than a call because she is frequently on site with a dog.
For bed bug detection she will discuss the published field research and what it does and does not establish. For structural rodent detection she will not quote a percentage, because the field validation that exists for bed bug work has no rodent equivalent. Saying so is more useful to your audience than a number nobody can trace.
Ask, and be prepared for the answer to depend on the dog rather than the schedule. Working dogs have limits on heat, duration and handling by strangers, and those come first. If a shoot is possible we will build a real search with a genuine target rather than pretend for the camera.
Two things. The detection work is certified rather than self-declared, and the company publishes the limits of its own methods. The list of claims Kim will not make on air is on this page, and several of those claims would help sell her services if she were willing to repeat them.
Yes. Local detection and treatment work runs across the CSRA and the Midlands. Canine rodent detection is offered nationwide, mostly for multi-site commercial operators who need consistent documentation across locations. Details are on the nationwide rodent detection pages.
Please ask first. Most images are of the company’s own dogs and handlers and we are usually happy to license them for editorial use, but a few are stock and we cannot pass those on. Tell us the outlet and the context and we will sort out what you can use.
Yes, and she is used to it. If your reporting has turned up a figure that sounds too clean, send it over. Where we can source it we will say so; where we cannot, she will explain what the evidence actually shows and why the number persists anyway.
Coastal K-9 & Pest Solutions, with the hyphen, in body copy. The registered legal string is Coastal K9 & Pest Solutions without it, which is why both spellings appear in different places. Either is defensible; the hyphenated form is preferred in editorial text.
If you are preparing for an interview, these pages carry the underlying detail and the citations.
Call or email Kim directly. Put your deadline in the subject line and you will get an answer the same day wherever possible.
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