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So much for animals not being allowed in the dorms.
A New York Times article today reveals how two Manhattan exterminators have begun using trained dogs to sniff out bedbugs, and they tell the Times they’ve visited “a big, big university on the West Side.”
The dogs, named Pasha and Ruby, are typically hired by hotels, but some apartments and schools have requested their bedbug-hunting services, including apparently our own fine institution.
The exterminators, Michael Morin and Donald Frey, say they keep the locations of the infestations confidential, but given how readily the pair let slip the Columbia tidbit to a major national newspaper, it’s a wonder no one has entrusted them with any actually important secrets.
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@hmmm I wonder what roger wilde thinks of those beagles.
@awwww doggies! Look at them. Both cute, friendly and useful. Everything cats are not.
@ugh totally agree.
i hate cats.
kittens are adorable, clearly, but then they’re just smelly and boring when they get past that cutsie stage.
@Nobler http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/health/17dog.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=dog%20sniff%20cancer&st=cse
@nope fordham is in the bronx. and the east bronx at that.
your choices are pretty much us and us.
@barnard? you never know.
thinking about it, were there bedbug reports at barnard?
@barnard is a college, not a university. it is affiliated with a university, though.
@yes I’m barnard and I had bedbugs. They fumigated 4 times and still didn’t get rid of them. I had to switch rooms. They covered it up though, since Barnard reslife is sketchier than Columbia
@to be fair Fordham also has a Lincoln Center campus. But it’s still probably us.
@Fordham... …isn’t a big university on the West Side?
/probably us. :(
@eww i had bedbugs last year. such a pain! i’m still paranoid about them…
@!!!! beagle!!!! i will pretend to have bedbugs just for those dogs to come to my room.
@yep there were several infestations in schapiro only a few weeks ago