We handle all types of wild animal control & removal.
Squirrel Trapping and Control
Squirrels are small, destructive furry rodents who become a nuisance when they enter attics, soffits, and other areas of buildings. Squirrels are capable of causing damage through their gnawing activities, including creating a fire risk when they gnaw through the insulation on wires. Squirrels also contaminate buildings with the shed hairs, urine, and droppings, and the parasites they carry can transmit many serious arboviral diseases.For more information please visit http://squirrelremovals.com.
Raccoon Trapping and Control
Raccoons are intelligent, medium-sized destructive mammals who frequently take up residence in attics, chimneys, sheds, barns, and other homes and buildings. Raccoons are stocky, powerful animals who can become aggressive and cause serious injury if approached. Raccoons also have a high incidence of rabies, and their parasites can vector many serious diseases. Raccoon control usually is accomplished by trapping and then having a professional identify areas needed for animal damage repair and prevention.
Raccoons will use separate areas in a attic as toilets and the fecal and urine matter can cause the spread of dangerous diseases such as raccoon roundworm and other diseases.For more info please visit http://raccoonremovals.com
Bat Control and Removal
Bats are beneficial mammals because they consume about 1000 insects an hour each during their nightly flights and up to 600o-8000 insects in one evening and basically eat their weight in insects with each nights flights. Bats become a nuisance when they nest in attics, barns, bell towers, soffits, and other parts of buildings. Their guano (droppings) contain disease-causing organisms, their parasites can transmit serious diseases, and the bats themselves have a high incidence of rabies. Bat control is accomplished primarily by exclusion or the use of one way exit doors. The use of glueboards, mothballs are in many parts of the country illegal since many bats species are endangered and protected by the federal government and many local and state agencies.The trapping and use of nets with bats is illegal in some parts of the country because many get injured and can no longer fly.
For more information on bats please visit http://batremovals.com
Bird Control
Three species of birds are considered pests and may be controlled at will: Pigeons, starlings, and sparrows. Other species, such as geese, are considered "nuisance wildlife" and may be controlled using different methods, when necessary. Birds become pests when they exist in great numbers where they are not desired, when they cause damage or defacement to buildings or statuary, when their droppings create a health hazard around human-occupied areas, when they clog the air intakes to home or industrial ventilation systems, or when they create a hazard to air navigation such as colliding with manned commercial or military aircraft.
Pigeons cause defacement and accelerated building deterioration, fouling and soiling, noise and nuisance, poor public appearance & image, health hazards, transmission of disease, contamination of water / food supplies, public / employee safety and equipment damage. Cost of bird strikes and delays / cancellations to the commercial and military aviation industry is estimated to be $1.0 billion to $1.5 billion dollars a year. Monetary losses and damages caused by pigeon and bird feces to businesses, transportation entities, utilities and the general public goes largely unreported costing consumers untold multi-millions of dollars each year.
Do pigeons pose a health risk? YES. Aside from the parasites & mites, they will provide you with ...
Histoplasmosis
Starlings are very aggressive and will drive native birds out of its territory, much to the dismay of local bird watchers. Starlings are well noted for their flocking habits. They often gather in the tens of thousands, creating a huge nuisance when roosting in populated areas. Starlings are a major nuisance in urban areas due to their nesting, eating and living habits. When the bird is in its flocking phase, thousands of starlings often overwhelm urban buildings.
House Sparrows droppings and feathers create janitorial problems as well as hazardous, unsanitary, and odoriferous situations inside and outside of buildings and sidewalks under roosting areas.
Mole Control
Moles are very small, burrowing mammals that burrow and damages lawns or gardens. They are particularly destructive when they infest golf courses, athletic fields, and other recreational or ornamental lawns. Mole control is not dependent on insect control, as was once believed. A mole's diet consists primarily of earthworms, and grubs.
Chipmunk Control
Chipmunks are small, ground-dwelling squirrels with tan and brown bodies and stripes running lengthwise down their bodies. They become a nuisance when they are present in large numbers, when they dig up gardens or lawns, or when they gnaw on electrical and other utility cables (especially those connected to air conditioning compressors, generators, and other outdoor equipment). Control is accomplished by trapping.
Vole Control
Voles are small burrowing mammals who are commonly known as "meadow mice" or "field mice," but they're not really mice. They become a nuisance mainly because of their burrowing activities, which create unsightly runways in lawns and garden areas. They also occasionally get into homes and other structures, where they usually are mistaken for mice. Control is primarily by trapping and exclusion.
Shrew Control
Shrews are tiny rodents with long snouts and dark-tipped teeth. They are primarily carnivores in nature but will feed on almost anything, including insects, grubs, earthworms, small birds, eggs, fish, human garbage, bird seed, pet food, and small rodents. Their high metabolism and endless feeding activity causes them to consume far more food than one would expect from such a small animal. They also leave a strong odor wherever they travel which can become quite unpleasant when they get into homes and other buildings. Shrew control is accomplished primarily through trapping and exclusion.
Groundhog (Woodchuck) Control
Groundhogs (also called "woodchucks") are large, burrowing rodents who primarily eat grasses, berries, and other plant products, although they will also eat grasshoppers and other insects on occasion. They are disliked mainly because of the burrows they dig, which can range to 50 feet in length and usually have several openings. These burrows damage golf courses and lawns, and create an injury hazard because they are large enough for a person to step in or trip over.
Woodchucks, groundhogs, or whistle pigs as they are sometimes referred to as, are common throughout much of the eastern United States. They are short stocky animals with strong short legs attached to a chunky body. They typical weight between 5 and 15 pounds and can reach lengths of 15 to 20 inches.They have long front claws that assist them in digging. Woodchucks are proficient diggers and there dens can reach depths of 3 feet and reach over 20 feet in length.
Mating occurs in the spring, shortly after immerging from hibernation. After a 32 day gestation period 2 to 6 young are born, both blind and hairless.They stay with mom until late June or early July when they venture off in search of there own territory. Once established woodchucks are territorial and will fight off other den intruders, such as skunks, opossums, or other woodchucks. An established den site can be used for several seasons and possible several generations.
Woodchucks are strict vegetarians, favoring green plants, such as clover and alfalfa. In residential areas, woodchucks will eat beans, carrot greens, lettuce, cabbage, marigolds, pansies, and pumpkins to name a few. Woodchucks can turn a beautiful well kept vegetable garden to stubs in a very short period of time.
In the wild woodchucks are common prey for hawks, owls, coyotes, red and gray foxes, and domestic dogs, but in a protected residential area they live almost predator free.
Skunk Control
Skunks (polecats) are medium-sized, primarily nocturnal animals whose diet consists mainly of insects and small rodents. as well as grasses, berries, and other plant products. They also are one of the few animals who eat honeybees. Although passive by nature, skunks will defend themselves with a foul-smelling spray that they can discharge with pinpoint if they feel threatened. This ability is the main reason why skunks are disliked.
Skunks breed once a year unlike humans. This event is all important too the survival of the species, just think if we could only do this once every year and how it would effect our behavior?
A female skunk is the boss she finds the den site,decks,porches,under buildings are favored places. These can be recognized by a small,4 to 8 inch half moon shaped hole or as we referto it as a duck under. The best sites are chosen that have both food and shelter and are occupied by the dominant female of that area. Foods can be just bug larvae or even mice. When the female finds one of these she will go in and dig a depression and fill it with leaves or other debris she is now ready to entertain suitors and then a home to have her litter of baby skunks.
Once she comes into season she waits for a male to find her and they do,coming from as far away as ten miles to breed! This courtship is not all hugs and kisses. It is a violent fight between the female and her partner.
The stink you smell is part of this ritual. The female can only accept a male if it can dominate her, reminds me of cavemen rituals.
Snake Control-
Most snakes are harmless and most snake bites caused by provocation of a snake in the first place. Snakes typically will leave humans alone if left alone in the first place. If you do have a snake problem in your home or building, we can however help with identification, removal of the snake and further prevention of limiting re-occurrence by of visitations of snakes. For more info please visit http://snakeremovals.com.
(Raccoons (genus Procyon, family Procyonidae) characterized by a bushy, ringed tail and a black mask on the face.
Many of us when we see a raccoon think about how cute they are. It is hard to have a converstion with anyone about raccoons with out comments of their black masked bandit faces around their eyes .The raccoon is known by other names like coon, ringtail and some mi spell it with one -c- as raccoon.
The North American raccoon (Procyon lotor) has a stout body, short legs, pointed muzzle, and small erect ears. The raccoon is a mammal native to all parts of North America except parts of the Rocky Mountains and in deserts. The raccoon is comfortable both in wooded areas, along the shore areas of rivers, lakes and oceans, and do best now living amongst humans in their own urban surroundings.
Raccoons have very manipulative paws, which means they can open up jars, rubbish or garbage cans and can even open door latches. They are also quite strong and have been known to rip up shingles, soffit, flashings and aluminium. On average, there are 10-25 raccoons per square km in many established urban areas.
Feeding Habits:
The raccoon is nocturnal and a omnivore which means it eats both meat and vegetables in its diet;they eat arthropods, rodents, frogs, berries, fruit, and plants; and in towns and cities they thrive on garbage. In a urban environment they have learned to adapt extremely well and live well on bird seed, dog and cat food left outside for our pets, are common in our gardens and will eat basically anything we eat and grow . They know how to open up trash cans and walk through our pet door entrances intended for our pets and enter our homes and scrounge around most anything they want on table tops, or in cupboards. Personally a smart homeowner will re-consider even having a pet door and if they do lock them up at night.
Habitat:
Raccoons in the wild live in the hollows of trees and take up residence where other animals may have previously lived. In a urban setting racoons have lived several generations inside homes attics, abandoned buildings, sheds and barns abd storage areas. Many of them don't even know how to live in a natural wild setting and may actually starve if deprived the luxury of living along side human kind and feeding from our garbage cans, pet food containers and from our gardens and orchards.
Raccoons most often like to make dens in chimneys, roofs and attics, especially over bedrooms where it tends to be quieter. They are nocturnal (i.e. active at night), making them quite a nuisance when homeowners are trying to sleep.
Raccoon Control and removal
The best way to control raccoons is trapping them. if you have never had any experience handling wild animals it is best to leave such duties to a hired professional wildlife trapper or nuisance animal control professional. In some communities you may be able top buy or rent traps and attempt this on your own. I do want to caution you that they carry many dangerous diseases and a mother raccoon will go out of her way to protect your young should you find yourself between the mother and her young kits.
Raccoons and Their Associated Diseases:
Raccoons infected with rabies many times cannot be distinguished from healthy ones. Rabies is transmitted through their saliva from the infected raccoon to humans and pets, often through a bite. Raccoon feces are commonly infected with a roundworm known as Baylisascaris. If the eggs are ingested by humans, they can cause nausea, organ malfunction, blindness, loss of muscle control and even death. Extreme caution is advised to avoid any contact. The roundworm eggs can be easily transmitted through water runoff, soil and building materials to surrounding areas thus making any area that had contact with them extremely dangerous.
Mice
We all have a strange association with mice and rats. If you look at our culture you quickly find we rarely love them in our homes but love them in our media and have all grown up to love Mickey and Minnie and some of us even remember Mighty Mouse. Our cartoons with cats vs.mouse , (Tom & Jerry comes quickly to my mind)we seem to always root for that cute and cuddly mouse and never the house cat intended to keep them out of our home.walk through the aisles of a toy store and count all the toys intended to give our young children.
Put a rat or a mouse in the same home and we have housewives in particular demanding something be done immediately to erradicate them from our homes. My point is simple we all have a love & hate relationship with them and I doubt that imprint in our society will ever change. As a child we may have wanted a pet mouse(my own mom disallowed a hamster) and as a adult we understand our parents sentiment today that mice don't ever belong in a home as a pet or not.
We don't like mice because they get to our food long before we do. They tear open boxes of grains and soil them and create a situation of getting our families sick from disease usually by the urine and feces they leave behind. Mice destroy far more food then they consume and infact eat less then 3 oz of food a day each. They tear up our mattresses, upholstery and pillows to make bedding for their nests and left unchecked in a short time their population in our homes quickly explodes.
Mice carry several diseases like tapeworm, ringworm, leptospirosis, salmonella and even rat bite fever. salmonella is quite common and other microbial related food poisons. We get these either through being bit by a mouse or eating food they have contaminated. Leptospirosis although rare is spread by urine and can cause kidney and liver damage and "rat bite fever" even rarer.
There are nearly over 250 different species of mice in North America many of them are not native and have been introduced by man either through transport or commerce. The house mouse, white footed mouse and the deer mouse are the most common. Don't let the name house mouse fool you since they generally are found in larger abundance out in the woods and near grain producing farms yet it is one of the most common mice found in homes. The house mouse will breed spring and fall yet indoors breed year long. Compare the mouse to rabbits another rodent, they are more prolific and have as much as eight litters a year as long as food and a warm place to live exists-our homes.
They have litters that consist of 5-6 mice born hairless and blind but quickly grow hair in days and have all their hair in about one week. They are weaned in their third week and are sexually mature in 6-7 weeks.
Rats
Rats unlike mice in our society never have had a good name and the term "dirty rat" is indicative of our hate for them and our dislike to have them around us or in our homes.
The Norway Rat is our first and most commonly hated rat and was introduced from the old world about the time of the American Revolution. Another common breed especially in the South Eastern US is the roof rat which is associated with the plague & not the Norway rat. The roof rat keeps its nest up high and usually will live up in a attic or up high while the Norway rat another climber will tend to dig burrows and live at the ground floor or even lower.
Rats in general carry the following diseases: trichonosis,and the other diseases I mentioned in my paragraph on mice and disease. Rats find our sewers, trash cans, livestock buildings, silos, basements and our homes for a nice place to take refuge and raise their young. Mice and rats are nocturnal and can be living amongst us with out ever being noticed however, they leave feces and most house wives quickly pick up on rat problems in the first few days.
Eliminating Mice and Rats
Both of them chew and need to to keep their teeth sharp. The electrical wires in a home will quickly have the plastic cloating stripped off of them and the chances of eletrical hopuse fires increase. If you find lots of fesh droppings its a good sign you have either lots of mice or rats. The difference in feces will basically be their siz grain, mice about the size of rice and rats around 1/4 inch in size. If you begin seeing rats during the daylight it is a good sign the population is large enough that the hungier rats or mice or foraging for food not found during their nocturnal hours.
You can ask a wildlife control professional with Anytime Animal Control, to inspect your home identify their entrances and make modifications to a property to correct their re-appearance. Over grown trees or shrubs that touch the house eaves are the most common occurrence and need to become corrected. Most mature homes have mature tree and shrub growth and years of deterioration to quickly allow them to gain entrance in your home.
Entrances will need to be closed with things that mice and rats don't chew through like concrete, galvanized sheet metal, hardware ware cloth, and copper wool. Things like steel wool rust quickly and spray foam can be quickly chewed and allow re-entry. Rats can jump nearly four feet horizontally from a tree onto your home and mice can jump about 18 inches all of them can gain entrance to holes smaller then 1/4 of an inch. All cover vents require to be inspected and if necessary re screened to prevent re-entry. All of the home needs to be inspected, garage door seals, door jams, and every where water, gas, electric, or cable enter your home or business. Anything made of wood can be chewed away and give them re-entry.
Gophers, Moles and Other Digging Critters
Moles
Moles spend most of their life below ground and live mostly a subterranean life. they live ,fight,sleep, mate and eat underground. They have very strong claws and have ears and eyes that are barely visible upon examination. Their are seven different types of moles found inNorth America but the eastern Mole and Star Nosed Mole are the most common.
Gophers
A gopher is a small animal that is six to twelve inches long and weighs between 1/2 to one full pound depending on species. there are 33 different kinds of gophers that inhabit in North America
Pocket Gophers act but are a lot different then moles. They have a fur lined pouch in their mouths that give them their name. Like the mole they are fantastic and powerful diggers.Pocket Gophers make tunnels, and cause serious damage to lawns and golf course especially and spend nearly all of their life tunneling underground and live a subterranean life.
Gophers have varying diets but eat many roots, tubers and vegetation that they pull into their tunnels and devour.A gopher can tunnel 200-300 feet per night and their entire tunnel can network an area of nearly 200 yards.Gopher tunnels vary depending on the amount of food available in any one given area. Gophers tunnel for mating, nesting and resting places.
