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You love your home. It’s a place to escape from stress, a place to make memories. The last thing you need is an unwanted guest, especially one that causes damage to your property. By unwanted houseguest, we mean the local Akron wildlife. The Nuisance Compliance Division of the City of Akron reports problem wildlife includes raccoons, squirrels, opossums, groundhogs (woodchucks), muskrats, foxes, bats, rats, mice, weasels, mink, and rabbits.
Critter Control of Akron performs safe, humane removal of nuisance animals and pests from your home or property. We offer reliable prevention techniques for future animal intrusions in your home, with professional and permanent repairs to entry points and insulation. We can also disinfect areas damaged by animal urine and feces.
Adaptable and clever, raccoons have no trouble thriving in Akron. They mostly take up residence in the attic and can damage wires, insulation, pipes, and wood, including the ceiling. They are not polite wildlife either. Raccoons do all their business in your attic. The toxins of feces and urine are a hazard to your health.
For raccoon control, professional help is needed. The first step is to have an inspection completed by licensed, certified, and insured professionals.
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.
Squirrels are busy little creatures. They are always searching for foods to store for the winter in their nest. During their daily scavenger hunts, they have many opportunities to damage your yard and your home. They run across utility lines, making them sag to dangerous levels. Squirrels run on your roof, damaging shingles. They can also chew through your decking and boards when they want to get to those hard-to-reach areas. Squirrels may look cute, but they are known to carry diseases. That’s why you should call experts for removal.
Wildlife 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 office by squirrel proofing all entry points after we have removed the offenders. We can also clean-up the nesting sites and remove any debris, food, feces and soiled insulation.
Bats like to make their home in your attic. Not only are they loud, but their feces and urine also contain toxic uric acid that can ruin the structure of your home. You should not try to remove a bat yourself. They are known to carry rabies and other diseases.
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.
In Akron, the most common pests are the Norway rat, roof rat, and house mouse, all of which can fit through a hole the size of a quarter. The process of controlling rat or mice populations will look something like this:
During 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 way to reduce the possibility of letting unwanted rodents into homes is to seal possible entrances. Exclusion methods include caulking cracks in foundations, capping chimneys, and installing mesh covers over vents and crawl space entrances. We also strongly recommend a maintenance service. Rodents have front teeth that continuously grow, which means they can gnaw a new way back into your home.
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. Contact a Critter Control office near you today.
Bats, raccoons and squirrels are our most common in recently developed areas.
In Summer, all critters are very active, but in the winter we tend to slow down. We just have activity of the furry little guys and gals visiting the attic spaces.
Soffit being ripped down, or pushed up. Gnawing in weak areas of the home. Missing covers on vents or chimney caps are some common ones.
Remove free food sources, such as bird feeders, seeds on the ground, pet food left outdoors, and in some cases vegetation.
The sooner they call the better! Once activity is noticed, so we can come solve the situation before it becomes a problem!
