An Apology From PestSwap®

No more snakes. We promise.

Hello!

After speaking with school district staff, local Fish and Wildlife officials and the surviving members of the George Carver Middle School marching band, I want to clear things up for you, our loyal customers:

We apologize. PestSwap® will no longer offer snakes.

I continue to believe that our business model provides a unique and humane form of pest control. Going forward, we will simply continue our signature PestSwap® service with zero snakes.

When my grandfather started Earl’s Pest Control in 1977, he pledged to revolutionize the industry by swapping pests rather than killing them. Our next door neighbors were his first clients. The Smith family parted with a swarm of Asian tiger mosquitos that was sent to the loving home of my own aunt and uncle, who in turn swapped a colony of carpenter ants for a handful of bed bugs from a local optometrist — and PestSwap® as we know it began.

Gone were the days of fumigation, mass rodent poisoning and ant murder.

PestSwap® remains a family business. Though my father retired from full-time swapping years ago, he recently negotiated the largest transatlantic lice transfer in history. My young daughters handle weevils, moths and the slower rodents. My cousin is our accountant…