Kimberly Camera has spent more than 35 years in canine detection, wildlife management, and pest control, and more than 28 of those years working detection dogs. She began as a certified FEMA Urban Search and Rescue canine handler, a member of one of the nationally recognized FEMA canine teams, deploying across the country on live-find and recovery assignments.
That is where her standard comes from. In search and rescue, a dog's alert sends people into a collapsed structure. The dog has to be right, and the handler has to know how to read it. Kim brought that discipline, along with a background in wildlife biology, into pest management and founded Coastal K9 & Pest Solutions in South Carolina.
She works from a 14-acre property with canine facilities planned and built for the job, home to dogs that excel at rodent detection and abatement, bed bug detection, and nuisance wildlife control.
Her rule is detection before treatment, every time. Coastal K9 works rodent detection and abatement, bed bug detection, and wildlife and bird work, and supports commercial clients across the country, with a specialty in Norway rat burrow systems at food processing and agricultural sites.
The partnership began in 2025 with an introduction from a colleague and a few weeks of phone calls. Ryan then drove from Long Island to pick up his two Patterdale Terriers and met Kim in person for the first time. Kim trained Mia and Hugo, and she is Graduate's guide on everything canine. The two companies work projects together: Kim and her team bring decades of handling experience, and Graduate brings the structural side, reading how a building is put together and correcting it so the problem does not come back. Both work to find the cause, not to get in and out.
At a Brooklyn apartment complex, the burrow systems were under dense vegetation and could not be located by people on foot. Working together, the canine teams found them and the abatement was a success.
A 1.6 million square foot facility, worked with the dogs for detection.
Brought in to find what the operators already on the site could not.
Rodent Detection · Abatement · Consulting