Anybody watching this disgusting, yet riveting, show? I can’t help myself. 
Last night they had some poor woman in a second floor apartment living above a nasty filthy hoarder. (I’m not saying all hoarders are nasty. This one was.) The roaches were everywhere! And when they start spraying - ick.
The pigeon poop was pretty bad, too.
I don’t know if it was Verminators, but I did catch a show with exterminators a couple weeks back. The exterminator guy was young and cute and very enthusiastic about the service he was providing, and he did a great job. He was doing a trailer home. It was pretty grody. Every time he moved a package of food or a piece of furniture, the roaches scurried. They were even in the refrigerator!
How many kinds of vermin are there that this can be a weekly series? Roaches, termites, fleas, ants, flies, mice, rats – what else is there?
Bedbugs, spiders, bees, pigeons…
They have lots of roach and rat infestations to show us. 
You can have pigeon investations? That’s just scary. I don’t like when moths get inside and fly at me.
StG
Har. I’m sure they mean when the buggers nest in your roof eaves or on Siam Sam’s balcony. We had them nesting in one of those nook things that modern multi-gabled tiled roofs so readily provide, and it took a lot of spikes and nets to convince them to take up housekeeping elsewhere. They’re a big pest.
Right. Last night they cleared a church roof with broken grating. The birds tended to poop on visitors to the church!
They should get that Dirty Jobs guy to help them clean up…
Was that by chance a “Dirty Jobs” rerun? They had a crew on there for one or two episodes who were in Louisiana; their company is called Vex-Con. Does Bill P. on this page look like the guy?
The thing I like about the show is the one exterminator who goes around saying, “I love my job. Where else could I get paid to go around killing things?” I also loved what I think was the first episode with the rat infestation at the horse stables associated with a race track and fairgrounds. The exterminators were going around with four foot poles thwacking the rats. (among other methods)
I couldn’t help thinking, “If they weren’t licensed to be doing just that, they’d be getting cited for animal abuse so fast.”
One house had rats ,roaches and when they went to the porch ,it had killer bees. Winner.
I liked the way they wired up the roof with electrical current to discourage the pigeons from perching there. (Don’t worry, animal-lovers. It was low amperage current. Non-lethal. It doesn’t fry the birds, just gives them an unpleasant electric tingling. One of the exterminators let himself get zapped and laughed it off.)
Ferret Herder - This show is based in LA, and the extermination company is ISO-Tech.
This is a new favorite at our house… though some of the bedbug/mite/rat infestations make my skin crawl a bit.
Dirty Jobs did do a pigeon cleanup episode/segment in NYC, but this was also a different company.
The church portion of the show was amazing, but we couldn’t figure out what that ‘room’ was for where the pigeons were roosting and nesting. You couldn’t get to it by another means other than crossing a roof.
I wish they’d discuss the costs of some of the jobs they do. Some of the projects are quite involved.
They also smashed a rat between a door and a wall, that was a little shocking at first, for them to be so nonchalant.
Thanks for starting this thread. I too was fascinated with this, resolved to post on it, and then forgot.
The one that had me shaking my head (at least, until the hoarder apartment neighbor from hell came up) was the glib, lazy studio guy. After the exterminators patiently and unpatronizingly showed him how the rats were getting in through a big honkin’ gap under a back door, and how they were feasting on the garbage that hadn’t been taken out, they return in a few days to find that Lazy Studio Guy hadn’t fixed the gap or even taken out the garbage. (It was still the same garbage!)
I can see the appeal of being an exterminator, although I’d be squicked out by it all. There’s a certain purity and simplicity about cleaning the world, one sick building at a time. There’s even a Zen-like decency about the verminous critters themselves – they’re merely opportunists, being the critters they are and doing their best to eat/sleep/breed in a human-dominated environment. No, it’s the human a@@holes and dingbats that really get on my nerves, and I marvelled at the exterminators’ graceful ways of dealing with their more problematic clients.
I’ll never understand the sick hoarders with slovenly, filthy habits who coexist with thousands of visible roaches, etc.
Just in case any one may be interested: Verminators is one of the shows currently available to watch online via the Discovery Channel’s website. Look at the Video tab, then full episodes.
We once had a rat problem in our attic, which was quickly taken care of by our own local “verminator”, who plugged some holes with a brillo-like substance. The holes communicated with our shared-wall neighbors’ attic, and he said the problem was likely coming from over there. We then peered over the wall at the neighbors’ backyard and saw bowls of putrefying dog food, chunks and smears of people food left over from barbecues, and piles and piles of boxes and crates and junk which provided ideal rat condominiums.
Normally I’m the prime demographic for the Discovery Channel, but I think they slightly miscalculated on this one. See…I like to watch TV while eating dinner, and the Verminators – well, not good dinnertime watching. Not that there are many contexts in which I really want to watch roaches crawling around in HD, but dinnertime is my least favorite.
Ours are cute little buggers, though.