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Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday Closed
By County: Ashland, Holmes, Richland and Tuscarawas Counties
Located between Cleveland and Columbia, the northern Ohio city of Mansfield is home to less than 50,000 residents. Similar to other cities throughout the region, residents and business owners experience their fair share of nuisance wildlife issues such as a raccoon in the chimney, skunks in the garden or bats in the attic. If you encounter these and other unwanted pests in or around your property, please contact your Mansfield-based Critter Control professionals to remove the animal(s) and make the repairs to ensure unwanted visitors stay away.
Crossing paths with one or more raccoons at night is not unheard of in the city of Mansfield. The intelligent, omnivorous animals usually prefer to eat berries, acorns, fish and even baby birds; however, if there’s an easy-to-access trash can filled with food scraps nearby, raccoons will certainly seek it out—and leave quite a mess.
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.
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.
If there’s food and water to be had inside your home or business, chances are rats and mice will find it. Both mice and rats are common throughout the United States. Mice, in particular, will seek out warm places inside walls and attics and establish nests during the winter months. Infestations can be detected early; therefore, once the first signs of activity appear, property owners should contact our Mansfield office to deal with the problem immediately.
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.
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).
In addition to noting any pungent odors that signal the presence of a skunk, we will inspect the condition of your landscaping, as skunks are known for tearing-up lawns and shredding grass while hunting for grubs and insects. We will also inspect the perimeter of your building’s foundations and under decks, to locate burrows.
The most effective ways to control a skunk problem is exclusion and habitat modification. Methods like sealing foundation gaps, replacing and screening broken foundation vents and installing hardware cloth (rat walls) around unprotected sheds and decks are the most effective and permanent ways to keep skunks out.
We recommend keeping pet food inside and securing any trash bins.
Groundhogs, also known as woodchucks, can be found in all of Ohio’s 88 counties as well as throughout most of North America. As diurnal animals, groundhogs spend several hours a day feeding above ground before returning underground to their protected burrows. These animals are voracious eaters. In Mansfield, they can enter yards searching for new sources of food.
All forms of wild animals making your home, their home; which causes damage to the outside structure and inside the dwelling, all while making their new nest.
Every season comes with an upward movement of one animal or another, it is not just in the Spring. Not only does this happen for different months of the year, but also different times of the day. Some are active as much as 20 hours in a 24 hour period.
Squeaking or scratching noises behind a wall or ceiling. Rustling noises coming from walls or ceilings. Unusual noises that are typically not a normal house noise and are louder at night or at dusk. Garbage cans turned over and trash scattered around. Urine stains on ceilings or floors that have a strong odor. Feces droppings around your home that are small and brown. Gnaw marks on electrical wiring or walls.
Keep brush and trash away from the home. Keep bushes away from the home, or trim them up from the ground. Make sure to remove any nests found on the outside of the structure, as long as they’re not from a protected species.
As soon as they hear any noises on the inside that should not be there and when they see nesting material or observe the animal going into the structure.
This franchise is independently licensed and operated by Lauhoo 247, LLC., dba Critter Control of Mansfield.
