When you need wildlife removal in Denton, Critter Control offers trusted, local services to get animals out and keep them out. We specialize in humane wildlife control for squirrels, raccoons, rats, mice, and any other critters causing problems in your attic, walls, or property.

Wildlife Pests in Denton

In Texas, with nuisance wildlife, or any animal at a high risk of carrying a disease, transporting it is a class C misdemeanor. Trust Critter Control of legal inspections, humane removal, and repair services that protect you and your home safely.

Between year-round warm weather and little rainfall, Denton, TX, offers an ideal place for outdoor activities. Unfortunately, wildlife pests benefit from the predictable climate as much as people. Residents spot all kinds of animals around the city and in their own backyards.

Rats and Mice Pest Control

The rats trying to live in your Dallas home are either the Norway rat or the roof rat, also known as the black rat. The house mouse is also a common unwanted resident that sneaks out at night to gather food and nesting materials. You may not ever see rodents on your property, but the signs they leave behind are evidence of their destructive behaviors.

Rats like to create burrows in your yard and will gnaw just about anything, including wires, siding, pipes, garden hoses, and any wood. Mice inside your home will chew holes in your cabinets to get to your pantry foods, baseboards, vents, screens, and anything they need to survive.

Mice can fit through a hole the size of a quarter, and rats can fit through a hole the size of a golf ball. Holes you may never notice are entry points for rodents that carry diseases. We can help eliminate your rodent problem. Because rats and mice multiply often, the sooner you call, the better.

Inspection

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.

Rodent Trapping

A Critter Control wildlife specialist will create a strategic trapping plan for rodent extermination. 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.

Exclusions

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.

Raccoon Removal

Like most mammals, female raccoons must always look out for protected places to give birth and raise their young. These nuisances see voids under porches and decks as prime real estate. Infestations in or around Texas homes heighten the risk of contracting harmful infections such as rabies and raccoon roundworm.

Once in your home, raccoons can shred drywall, chew through wires, scratch flooring, and use insulation to create a nest. If they decide to build a nest in your chimney or vents, you are at risk for fire hazards. When Critter Control is called for raccoon removal near you, we show up prepared.

Inspection

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.

Raccoon Trapping

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.

Exclusions

The best raccoon control is exclusions. We repair raccoon entry points and seal them to keep raccoons out. We can repair raccoon damage like broken screens on vents and chimneys.

Squirrel Removal

The fox squirrel lives throughout Texas in yards and neighborhoods. These rodents often carry ticks and mites in their fur, bringing the parasites within biting distance of people. Squirrels also make a lot of noise throughout the day, dig up yards, and break into attics.

Once in your home, squirrels will wreak havoc, making your attic their winter haven. Expect gnawed wires, shredded insulation, and if you have sentimental objects not correctly stored, it could become part of their nest. For squirrel pest control, here’s what we do.

Inspection

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.

Squirrel Trapping

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.

Exclusions

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.

Opossum Removal

Opossums are more of a nuisance than a real danger. An opossum tends to live in woodland areas. However, this animal will visit the city to hunt for birds, mice, and insects (as ominvores they eat almost anything). Opossums will use attics, crawlspaces and the areas under sheds and porches as dens.

Exclusion work is usually the most effective method to keep opossums away, like sealing entry points to prevent entry to attics and crawl spaces. Securing potential food sources, like pet food and garbage also helps. Scare devices only provide temporary solutions.

Inspection

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.

Trapping and Removal

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.

Opossum Control

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.

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Bats and Disease

Bat colonies living close to humans come with the threat of illness as well. Denton County generally records several cases of rabies in bats each year. These animals can transmit the virus through bites and scratches. As such, humans should avoid contact with the pests and seek help with excluding any bats indoors.

Urban Coyotes

In the wild, coyotes are averse to human contact. The search for food and loss of their natural habitat is what leads them closer to backyards and homes.

Coyotes are rarely hostile to humans, but unattended cats and dogs can become prey. Garbage, gardens, and compost bins can also lure a coyote to residential areas.

Fox in the City

These animals have also adapted well to Denton suburbs. Both coyotes and foxes can be useful in neighborhoods because they prey on rodents and other pests. However, a fox will seek out food that presents minimal risk for a reward, so easy meals like trash or pet food will always be their first choice.

Despite their friendly, dog-like appearance, coyotes and foxes shouldn’t be approached or intentionally fed. Both pests are at high risk for rabies, which can be spread through a single bite.

More Wildlife Issues

Residents of Denton also contend with rabbit and rat infestations. Rabbits eat garden produce and strip the bark from trees, while rats sneak inside homes and taint pantry goods with their waste. In addition, both animals may attract large predators to yards.

Common Wildlife Issues in this Location

• Animal Damage
• Animal Droppings
• Animal Noises
• Animal Odor Removal
• Animals on the Roof
• Animals Under Homes & Porches
• Bats in Homes
• Bats in the Attic
• Carcass Removal from Homes
• Chimney Repairs
• Dead Animal Removal
• Humane Animal Trapping
• Mice in Walls & Attics
• Raccoon Trapping
• Raccoons in Attic
• Rats in Walls & Attics:
• Seal Animal Entry Points in Homes
• Skunk Control
• Skunk Trapping
• Skunks Under Heating Units
• Squirrel Trapping
• Squirrels in Attics
• Squirrels in Homes
• Venomous Snake Removal

Residential Services

We provide trapping & removal services for the following types of animals:

• Armadillos
• Badger
• Bats
• Beavers
• Bees
• Birds
• Blackbirds
• Bobcat
• Chipmunks
• Coyote
• Crows
• Deer
• Fox
• Gulls
• Hornets
• House Finches
• Magpies
• Mice
• Moles
• Muskrats
• NorwayRats
• Opossums
• Pack Rats
• Pigeons
• Porcupine
• Rabbits
• Raccoons
• Rats
• Roof Rats
• Skunks
• Snakes
• Sparrow
• Squirrels
• Starlings
• Swallows
• Voles
• Weasel
• Wild Hogs
• Woodchuck
• Woodpeckers

Commercial Services

• Bird Control & Municipal Animal Control