The specialists we work with directly, and what each one handles. Every page on this site that says “partner firm” means one of these, and naming them is the point of the page.
Coastal Canine and Pest Solutions
Canine training, handling and program guidance
Kim trained Hugo and Mia, the Patterdale Terriers that work Graduate’s canine environmental IPM program. She built both dogs to the standard the work demands, which is why we can bring a working dog into a Manhattan mechanical room or a food processing facility and rely on what it finds.
Kim is our guidance on everything canine. Whether a dog is ready, how a property should be worked, what a handler is actually seeing in a given alert — she is who we call. Her team also works alongside us across our accounts.
What separates their handling is patience. A dog can register a finding and be walked back out in twenty minutes, and plenty of operations run exactly that way. Kim’s team stays until the source is located, because a finding only tells you something is present. The source tells you how it got in. On a building-science job, that difference is the entire job.
This is the diagnostic step that decides everything after it. We do not treat what has not been confirmed, and we do not accept a confirmation from anything less than a properly trained dog and a handler who can read it.
New York Exterminating
A share of the interior insect volume
Graduate performs the full range of interior insect work in-house, including intensive German cockroach and bed bug programs, using the low-insecticide, building-science approach that defines everything we do. Our own focus stays on structural exclusion and advanced rodent work, so a portion of our interior insect volume goes to Jorge’s team.
Jorge Bedoya is an Associate Certified Entomologist and one of the strongest operators in Brooklyn, and he holds our standard on every cockroach and bed bug job we send him.
Xcluder
Rodent exclusion materials
We specify Xcluder door sweeps and fill fabric on exclusion work throughout New York City and Long Island. Every sweep is custom fabricated, cut and fitted to the opening it protects rather than installed off the shelf. The material matters, but the fit is what decides whether a mouse gets through, and we have installed enough of it to know exactly where a standard installation fails.
We also specify Xcluder GEO below grade. GEO is a geotextile bound with coarse stainless steel fibers, installed under soil, mulch or sod, where it blocks burrowing while grass and plantings grow through it normally. Most exclusion programs stop at the building envelope. On a property with active burrowing, sealing the structure without addressing what is tunneling toward it moves the problem rather than solving it. GEO lets us interrupt burrows at the landscape rather than waiting for them to reach the foundation.
None of it relies on poisons or chemicals, which is why it fits the way we work.
Common questions
Why does a pest control company publish its partners?
Because the alternative is a website that says "partner firm" and never says which one. This site uses that phrase across dozens of pages, and a buyer reading it is entitled to ask who is actually going to be in their building. Naming them is the honest version of a claim we were already making.
Who actually does the work I am hiring Graduate for?
The work this firm is built on is ours. Structural exclusion, rodent work and the surveys behind them are carried out by people trained directly by Arnold and Ryan Katz. A share of interior insect volume goes to New York Exterminating, and animal removal is carried out by licensed nuisance wildlife operators because the law requires that license for the removal step itself.
Who actually handles the detection dogs?
Graduate runs the dogs on its own accounts. Kim Camera of Coastal Canine and Pest Solutions trained Hugo and Mia, remains the guidance on canine questions, and her team works alongside Graduate across accounts. The training standard behind a dog is what decides whether an alert is worth acting on.
Is Xcluder a partner or a product?
A material we specify, listed here because the copy across this site names it constantly and a reader deserves to know the nature of the relationship. Graduate buys and installs it. The fit is the part that matters and the part we own: every sweep is cut and fitted to the opening rather than installed off the shelf.
What is Xcluder GEO, and when would a property need it?
A geotextile bound with coarse stainless steel fibers, installed below grade under soil, mulch or sod. It blocks burrowing while grass and planting grow through it normally. It is for a property with active burrowing, where sealing the building alone moves the problem outward rather than solving it.
Are the wildlife removal firms named here?
Not yet. Animal removal is carried out by licensed nuisance wildlife operators, and which of them may be named on this site is a question still with the owner. Rather than describe them vaguely on a page about naming names, they are left off until that is settled.
Can you recommend someone for work you do not take?
Usually, yes. Describe what you are seeing and where. If it is not work for this firm — turf and ornamental, termites, or a removal that needs a wildlife license — we will say so and point you at who does it, which costs you a phone call and saves you a wasted visit.
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The consultation is free and most problems can be diagnosed on the phone. A written proposal and plan carries a service fee, and that fee comes off the cost of the work if you go ahead.