How We Solve Shreveport Wildlife Problems
It starts with your phone call. We answer our phones 24/7, and we will carefully listen to your wildlife problem. Every case is different, so we will ask appropriate questions to help
us understand the situation better. Questions like, "do you hear the noises at night or during the daytime?" or "what type of roof do you have?" After we have a general idea of your
situation, we can provide a ballpark price range, and schedule a same-day or next-day appointment to inspect your property.
INSPECTION: Once on site, we will perform a full inspection of your home and property. This allows us to use the correct strategy and traps. If the animals are in an attic, a full building inspection is crucial, including the following:
- All ground-level areas, such as piper or A/C line entry & exit areas, A/C chase bottoms, ground-level vents, etc.
- All mid-level areas, such as dryer vents, siding gaps, first floor eaves or dormers, etc.
- We inspect the entire roof, including all plumbing stacks, ridge caps, vents, and other potential gaps or holes.
- We also inspect inside your attic, to identify animals and damage they have caused.
- If the animals are outside, we notice many subtle clues that will assist us in a successful strategy.
TRAPPING, EXCLUSION, REMOVAL: Once we understand what animal species we are dealing with, and the problem, we use the most effective means of removing the animals. We use dozens of different types of traps.
- Trapping - If trapping the animal(s) in live cage traps, trap type, set, and location are crucial to success.
- Exclusion - Oftentimes, we are able to simply set one-way doors or other exclusion devices that allow the animals inside a building to safely exit, but never get back inside.
- Removal By Hand - Sometimes we actually remove animals by hand, or with special tools like snare poles.
- The Law - In all cases, we obey state and local laws regarding wildlife, but aim to take the most humane approach.
ENTRY HOLE REPAIRS: Repairs are a crucial step in the wildlife removal process. In many cases, such as bat or rodent control, the job cannot be performed without detailed repairs, and in all cases, sealing the entry holes shut ensures that no future wildlife will ever enter your home.
- 100% of the entry holes must be found, and sealed shut, or the job is not complete.
- Our repairs are professional contractor grade, look good, and when applicable we use steel, which rodents such as rats or squirrels are unable to chew through.
- We give a written guarantee on our repairs against any future animal entry.
ATTIC DECONTAMINATION SERVICES: It may be desirable to clean your attic after we've removed the animals. They can leave behind large amounts of droppings, urine, hair, oils, food, nesting material, and so on. These remnants can attract insects like cockroaches, and the scent left behind can encourage new animals to chew their way into your house. You might experience odor problems from the waste. It's possible that mold will grow on waste areas.
- We remove or vacuum all droppings, or remove all the soiled insulation.
- We fog the attic with a special enzyme-based cleaner that destroys any organic matter and deodorizes the space.
- We repair damage, such as ductwork, electrical wires, pipes, insulation, and more.
Protect Your Home and Property by Keeping Animals Away
When you have animals on your property, you will need to think quickly about animal control and their removal. There is no need to wait thinking that the animal may go away without your interference. The reason why you will want to get the animals away from your home is that they will damage the structure, and if they enter into your home, they can damage the furniture, drapes and carpeting. Animals are known to be destructive both inside and outside of a garden. There are animals that dig in the garden, and they can cause problems while looking for worms and bugs for eating. They can also get into the garbage and can make a mess. The animals may not be aggressive, but they can attack cats and dogs. They can carry rabies, mites, ticks, fleas and distemper. These are the reasons why you and your pets should be kept protected by making sure that there is no unwanted animal on your property.
Instead of dealing with the problem yourself, it is good if you can call someone who is a professional when it comes to animal control. It is safer for you and you will not risk being exposed to sickness or an animal attack. Call a professional for animal removal whenever you experience problems with a skunk. The sooner you are able to call, the sooner the problem will be taken care off. We can listen to you when you call and will describe the methods that we use in solving problems similar to yours.
We service Miller County, Lafayette County, Bossier Parish, Red River Parish, De Soto Parish, Panola County, Harrison County, Marion County, Cass County, Caddo Parish, and more. We also service Blanchard, Greenwood, Mooringsport, Oil City, Vivian, Belcher, Gilliam, Hosston, Ida, Rodessa, Lakeview, Bethany, Conn, Crosskeys, Dixie, Forbing, Keithville, Spring Ridge, Three States, Zylks, and more. To learn more about our services, visit the Shreveport wildlife control home page.
This month's wildlife how-to article: How to get Wild Animals Out of a Wall
Most of the time people keep tiny holes and cavities in their home unnoticed, while that the place from where numerous species multiply. Sometimes it happens that small animals accidentally enter small cavities and started living there. Often rats and mice are seen making their nest in cavities found in floor or wall because they prefer to gain close access to floor level for their easy mobilization. Some animals like raccoons, opossums or even squirrel's effort to make homes in holes and small cavities.
• Searching for entry points
As far as small-bodied animals are a concern, like rats and mice, they never make their homes accidentally rather they find entry points in small holes and cavities both internally and externally for in and out. Once you reach they're in and out points you can easily seal them permanently.
• Deal with little rascals via poison
A very common method used by pest animal killers is to use poison to readily kill them. Sometimes people ignore the side effects of using poison. Although it is the easiest way to kill them, problems are you don't know where that animal will die. And if die at the rare place you will have to face decomposition problems.
• Fixing damages caused by wild animals in their homes
Prior you start sealing entry points of wild animals it is better to look around inside the cavity so that you can identify the damages caused by them. They are very fond of biting and chewing electrical wires, wood and many other items which needed to be replaced prior sealing their homes.
• Using traps to kill them
Once you have identified the presence of wild animals in your house now you will try to grab them and kill them. Laying traps is considering to be a traditional as well as an effective method to deal with wild animals in homes. Most of the time killers use baits like oil, meat, peanut butter, cat food etc. traps should be placed according to the regular places of animals where they are seen moving.
