Happy Thanksgiving from Chuck & Larry.

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Poor Barbie.
She must have had great hopes as she sat on the toy store shelf in her pretty packaging  just waiting to be picked up and taken home by a little girl who would love her forever. Certainly included in her ambitions were visions of being dressed up in fancy shoes and gowns and toted [...]

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Termidor worked so well for one of our customers that he was inspired to write a poem about it:
Twas the morning after Termidor, and all through the yard
There were ant hills melted like lard.
All the ants were dead or dying,
With poisoned soil for a bed.
No matter the color, black brown or red.
The home owner rejoiced [...]

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These days it seems everyone is in for saving the planet. Just type “ways to go green” in google and you’ll see what I mean.  If you are just starting out with the green movement, you may want to keep it simple by checking out 10 Ways to Go Green, Easy Ways to go Green, [...]

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There is a safe way to handle rodenticides.
And this is NOT it…

Hmmmm.  Let’s have a closer look at the offense, shall we?

That’s James, the Little Bro.  He doubles as a warehouse and tech guy at the office.  On this particular day he had been photographing some rat poison blox for the website. At one point [...]

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Seriously, I hate that I have to post this. Little mice are really so cute.  It is one thing to advertise products that do away with beady-eyed, long-tailed, dirty rats.   It is quite another to sell snap traps and poisons intended for critters that bear closer resemblance to Mickey, Mighty Mouse, Jerry, Fievel,  and Speedy [...]

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…in the Land of High-Tech-ness and Cool-osity.
Remember this photo of a bed bug feeding on the arm of one of our staff?  Well that was cool. But when we saw it we all knew it was not as cool as it could be.
So we did what anyone would do when their blog is not measuring [...]

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Tis the season to be jolly.  Tis also the season for rodents.  As cooler temperatures settle in, rats and mice head inside looking for winter harborage.  Your home is the perfect holiday hang out because it offer all 3 things rats and mice need: shelter, food, and water. Since we all know that it goes [...]

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When a not-to-be-named customer stopped into the office nearly a month ago with a live bed bug specimen in a rubbermaid container, life in the office changed in ways none of us could have imagined.
Things got a little more interesting. A little more exciting.
A lot more freaky.
Seeking to better empathize with our customers, office staff [...]

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I love holidays. Who doesn’t? Holidays are great, because here is a day where there is so much celebration and festivity and good food and gladness that you would think a pest control family could come together and forget about bugs for just a moment.
You would think.
Take Halloween. You would think Halloween is about dressing [...]

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