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Alabama is the fourth most biologically diverse state in America, offering a home to over 650 wildlife species. If any of these animals start damaging your property or crops, or become a danger to the public, they are “nuisance wildlife.”
Common nuisance wildlife in Auburn includes raccoons, snakes, birds, squirrels, rats, mice, bats, rabbits, opossums, and groundhogs. Local wildlife may be fun to watch, but they can cause severe damage to your home, office, or property. The Critter Control of Auburn removal process starts with an inspection, then removes the animal and repairs any damage. Check out examples of our work below.
Squirrels in Homes and Walls in Huntsville
Squirrels are among the most common nuisance animals in Huntsville especially in neighborhoods with mature trees, wooded lots, and older homes.. They enter attics and wall spaces through small roof gaps, especially in older homes. Critter Control uses humane exclusion devices and repairs entry points to prevent future invasions, minimizing property damage and fire risks from gnawed wiring.
Rats and Mice in Homes and Businesses
In Huntsville, rats are more than just a nuisance. They can damage homes, threaten health, and create ongoing problems if they are not handled quickly and thoroughly. Older neighborhoods, wooded lots, crawl spaces, restaurants, and areas near streams or heavy vegetation all provide good shelter and food sources for rats year-round.
Raccoon Damage to the Roof, Attics, and Homes
Raccoons are one of the most destructive pests homeowners face in Alabama. Excellent climbers, these critters are strong enough to tear through roof vents, soffits, fascia boards, shingles, and weak construction gaps. While raccoons are highly adaptable and intelligent, those same traits make them especially problematic once they begin using homes or commercial properties for shelter.
Bats can be a common problem during the summers. Bats frequent neighborhoods near mature forests and water sources, but can be a problem in any home in Alabama. Able to squeeze through tiny gaps, we usually see entry points near roof returns on soffits. While bats are beneficial for controlling insects outdoors, they can create serious problems once they begin roosting inside homes or commercial buildings.
Opossum Control in Huntsville
Opossums often take shelter under decks, porches, and crawlspaces. While generally not aggressive, they can create messes and attract other pests. We humanely trap and relocate opossums, then block access points to prevent re-entry.
Skunks tend to cause the most problems in Auburn early in the year when it’s breeding season. But they also cause issues in the yard after birth and when skunks are preparing for winter. They can tear up your yard looking for food, but the biggest concern is getting sprayed. Humane traps and sealing denning sites is the most effective skunk control.
These burrowing animals can destroy lawns and gardens throughout the growing season. Our experts identify tunnels, trap the animals, and recommend exclusion methods to protect your yard.
Pigeons, starlings, sparrows, chimney swifts, and woodpeckers are common birds that cause problems for both residential and commercial properties. The city’s mix of old homes, commercial rooftops, and wooded neighborhoods gives birds abundant nesting and roosting opportunities. Our bird control solutions focus on exclusions, repellents, and deterrents to encourage the birds to find another roost.
Critter Control is here for you every step of the way in the wildlife removal process. From inspection to removal—and even exclusion and repair—we have the services you need to get rid of raccoons, rodents, and other nuisances fast. First, we identify the animal on the property, then use humane methods to remove the animal and secure weak points where more could enter. If damage has been done, we can make those repairs for a complete restoration.
Based on what you have seen, heard, and smelled, we start the inspection where you have noticed signs of animal activity. We inspect your property thoroughly to identify species, entry points, and nesting sites, ensuring accurate and humane removal plans.
We use several methods to humanely remove the animal from your home. Depending on the species, the number of animals, and the condition of your property, we develop a custom wildlife removal plan. Humane wildlife removal strategies include animal traps, one-way doors, and repellents.
Once the animal is safely removed, we identify and seal the openings it used to enter. Depending on the property, this may include damaged vents, chimney openings, roofline gaps, soffits, fascia, or other vulnerable.
Inside your home, animals build nests and dens out of readily available material. They will create runs through the insulation. Rodents will gnaw on anything, including electrical wires and pipes. Animals can also spread diseases. We apply sanitation agents to clean up feces and urine. Mammals can host pests like fleas, ticks, and mites. Ectoparasite treatments exterminate those pests so you don’t become their next host.
According to Alabama DCNR, raccoons are one of the lowest conservation concerns. They are a serious concern to homeowners, however, that are experiencing raccoon issues. Raccoons have flexible fingers that allow them to grasp and hold onto items, turn doorknobs, open trash cans, unwrap food packages, dig holes, and much more.
Raccoons will break into your home. Once inside, they are pretty destructive, shredding insulation, drywall, flooring, wires, and ductwork. Outside they will raid your garden, dig holes in your yard, climb on your home and scatter your trash. We can get rid of your raccoon problems.
During the inspection, we determine the severity of the raccoon infestation. We look for physical evidence like footprints in or around the home, stains from raccoon feces and urine. On the exterior of the house, we look for damage like scratches on boards, broken vents and screens, ripped apart shingles, destroyed soffits, and every possible entry point.
Live trapping is one of the most efficient ways to get rid of a raccoon. Depending on the situation, a one-way door or excluder valve can be installed. An excluder valve works by allowing the raccoon to leave but blocks its reentry. The choice of device is largely dependent on the season and location of the raccoons on your property. Direct capture is not commonly used because raccoons are a rabies vector species. If we must trap, we place traps strategically to safely catch the raccoons and we check traps frequently, based on state laws.
We provide a wide range of repair and restoration services. We can repair raccoon damage like broken screens on vents and chimneys and broken boards on decks and porches. It is essential to apply cleaning agents and ectoparasite treatments on areas inhabited by raccoons.
There are 22 species of rodents in Auburn and statewide. Of these, 14 are rats and mice. The most common species found in Auburn neighborhoods are the house mouse, brown rat, and roof rat. You may not ever see the rodent in your home, but it leaves signs of its presence. Poop on your countertops or floors, holes chewed in food boxes in your pantry, gnaw marks, and smudgy streaks.
Rats and mice don’t travel too far from their nests to search for food and materials. They will build a nest out of drywall, carpet, paper products, and anything else they can easily rip and shred.
Rats and mice can cause minor damages that add up to a high cost in repairs, like chewing wires, ruining groceries, shredding insulation, and packing vents and ducts with nests, creating fire hazards.
Call our experts to get rid of your rat and mice problem in Auburn.
tiDuring a rodent inspection, we thoroughly inspect your attic and provide a complete exterior home inspection. The most common signs of rodent activity are gnaw marks, feces, rub marks, nesting material, runs in insulation material, and small entry points.
A Critter Control wildlife specialist will create a strategic trapping plan to remove the rodents found in your home. Critter Control specialists may use snap traps and live traps to capture and remove mice and rats. Rodent trapping can usually takes between five to fourteen days.
The best rodent control near you are exclusions and bait stations. Exclusion methods include caulking cracks in foundations, capping chimneys, and installing mesh covers over vents and crawl space entrances. Our bait stations control the population outside to keep rats and mice out.
The gray and fox squirrels have adapted well to Auburn living. They’re in our trees, yards, parks, businesses, and streets, especially a few hours after sunrise and a few hours before sunset. During this time, they use their sense of smell to find foods like nuts, seeds, grains, garden crops, bird eggs, fruits, and even bark.
Squirrels will chew through siding, roof shingles, eaves, screens on vents, and chimneys to enter your home and build a nest. Once inside, they will chew wires, shred insulation, scratch walls, and tear insulation. Squirrels move around a lot, even in your home. You may hear them in your walls or ceiling just as you are trying to fall asleep.
Call us immediately to get rid of squirrels.
oWildlife specialists look for signs such as chewing on, in, or around your home, small openings leading to the attic or the crawl space, droppings, and debris like nuts or nesting material. Beams, wires, pipes, and insulation may all show signs of damage from squirrels.
Live trapping or one-way doors are the most effective and humane ways to get rid of squirrels. One-way doors should never be used during birthing seasons (Spring & Fall), so our specialists will decide which is the best tool for the job. If we have to trap, we place traps strategically to safely catch the squirrels and check those according to state laws.
We can restore your home or business after a squirrel infestation. Our exclusion repairs keep squirrels out by blocking entry points. We can also clean-up the nesting sites and remove any debris, food, feces and soiled insulation.
Bats swim through the air, according to Alabama DCNR. Their wings do not flap up and down but rather out like they are swimming. Bats roost hanging upside down, often by one leg while grooming with the other, which is needed since they also poop on themselves while roosting.
Bats eat thousands of bugs every night. In Auburn, it’s possible to see sixteen species of bats. However, the ones you might find in your attic are the big and little brown bats and the big-eared bat. They choose your home, barn, office, or other manufactured structure for one reason, it’s close to an excellent food and water source.
Bats present one major problem for you and your home, their guano or poop. Guano grows mold that, if inhaled by humans, may lead to respiratory infections. Also, guano leaves behind a nasty stain and causes corrosion to wood and metal, making the structure of your home or building unstable.
There are significant risks in removing a bat or bat colony, which is why it’s essential to seek the help of wildlife control experts.
We perform a full interior and exterior inspection and search for signs such as rub marks, guano, a strong scent of ammonia, and small openings. The most common sign is the accumulation of guano (feces).
The most effective and humane way to remove bats is by utilizing a bat valve in conjunction with a full home exclusion. A bat valve allows for bats to exit your home but not re-enter. We follow all local ordinances for humane bat removal. We will never abandon flightless pups in your attic.
After removing the bat valves, we seal the entrance hole(s) so bats can no longer enter your home. If there is substantial guano in your attic, you should consider taking advantage of our attic remediation services to remove the soiled insulation and replace it.
You probably don’t see too many opossums in Auburn, except on the streets. They often become roadkill after trying to consume roadkill. Opossums will eat just about anything, even pet food and garbage they find on your property. They also eat a lot of insects and will destroy your garden crops if unprotected.
Opossums have several defense mechanisms, including belching, growling, running, urinating, pooping, and of course, rolling over and playing dead by putting themselves in a coma-like state for up to four hours. They may be found living under your home, in the crawlspace, and under decks. Much like the raccoon, they will open trash cans and scatter garbage in search of food. While they may not pose a major threat to the public, they can be very annoying.
Opossums can be found inside attics and basements or outside under decks and sheds. Common signs include unique paw prints and feces. Opossums are docile and usually easy to spot.
Opossums can be lured into cages for live capture. If it is maternity season, we follow all guidelines for removing mother and newborn opossums. We will seal entryways into the building to prevent opossums from reentering in the future. Opossums can be kept from getting under sheds and decks by installing fencing around the bottom edges and burying the fence underground.
Broken screens on chimney and roof vents are replaced with sturdier materials, and we properly seal all entry points, including crawlspaces. We clean and deodorize areas of opossum activity. Exclusion may include eliminating sources that attract bugs, like nighttime lighting, stagnant water, and livestock poop.
The most common nuisance wildlife services are for raccoons, squirrels, bats, rats, mice, and birds. We also control for pests like moles, voles, gophers, groundhogs, skunks, and opossums.
You should call a Certified Wildlife Control officer at Critter Control. Unlike a pest control operator or exterminator, a certified wildlife control officer will safely and humanely remove the animal and then install exclusions for long-term pest control.
Animal control near you is typically a local government department that handles issues related to domestic animals, like stray dogs and cats, animal welfare enforcement, pet licensing, and regulation. Wildlife Control is a private company that helps homeowners remove nuisance wildlife from their private property.
Critter Control cost varies depending on a variety of factors like:
-Type of pest
-Location of infestation
-Condition of the property
-Condition of animal
As always, inspections are free.
It depends on the pests. For some pests like wasps, we can handle that pest problem same day. Other pests like rats and bats could take a few weeks to solve the problem.
It is in our mission statement to treat animals ethically and humanely. We use only humane trapping and prevention services. The most effective control is exclusion not extermination. Each state has its laws that dictate what we must do when it comes to controlling wildlife on our property.
