Nuisance Wildlife Damage

Raccoons, Squirrels, Rats, Mice, Snakes, Bats and other nuisance wildlife species are constantly searching for food, shelter, and water.

• Mice and bats only need an entry hole the size of a pencil.

• Squirrels can squeeze into an entry hole the size of your fist.

• Raccoons can fit into an entry hole smaller than a football.

Animal Damage Repairs

Rodents like Squirrels, Rats, and Mice gnaw on everything to manage their constantly growing teeth. Rodents can easily chew through materials such as wood, vinyl, plastic, asphalt shingles, and even soft metals like aluminum.

Hear Something in Your Chimney? Animals will get into the house many ways. The chimney is not too different from a hollow tree, which makes it a suitable habitat for many species of wildlife. An uncapped chimney provides easy access to your home. Raccoons can easily remove chimney caps. Professionally installed Animal-proof chimney caps or grates are always the best option.

Signs of Animals in Chimney

• Noises - Squeaking and scratching in the morning or at night.

• Odors- If a smell is coming from the fireplace or chimney clean out in the basement. Wildlife may have died in the chimney, left droppings, or the animal is currently living there.

Mama Raccoons frequently use chimneys in the late winter or spring as a den site to give birth to their litter of baby Raccoon pups.

What Animals Enter Chimneys?

• Raccoons - will take advantage of any available shelter.

• Bats - Naturally living in caves and tree hollows, Bats seek out chimneys for breeding and safe shelter.

• Squirrels - Like Raccoons, Squirrels use chimneys to give birth and shelter during the colder months.

• Birds - Uncovered chimneys can shelter birds including chimney swifts, sparrows, wood ducks, and owls.

Preventing Animals in Chimneys

Timing is everything when removing animals from chimneys.

Sealing an entry point too soon can trap babies inside, leading to further damage from the mother. She will break into other parts of the structure causing more damage to the property.

Why Do Animals Get into My House?

Wildlife Entry Points

• Construction Gaps

• Fascia boards

• Eaves

• Soffits

• Roof Vents

• Any Place Plumbing or Electric Enters the Home

Why Do Animals Get in the Attic?

During the winter months, temperatures drop, making attics a common nesting area. Some Animals seek out human made structures to give birth and raise young in the Spring.

Gaps in siding, walls and fascia boards provide

many species of wildlife easy entry points.

Common places you'll find wildlife living in:

• Attics

• Chimneys

• Crawlspaces

• Roofs

• Soffits

Signs of Wildlife in the Attic

People often hear animal sounds above the ceiling or in their walls. Some of these sounds include:

• Scratching at walls, or insulation

• Running sounds across attic

• Chirping, whining, and other animal noises

Common Animals that Live in Attics:

• Bats

• Squirrels

• Rats

• Mice

• Raccoons

Damage from Animals in Attic

Animals can cause extensive amounts of damage to the attic. Species of animals like Raccoons are known for only using one or two spots when urinating and defecting. Leaving bad odors and harmful bugs & bacteria in the attic. Rodents like Mice, Rats, and Squirrels also damage attics and destroy insulation while using it for nesting materials.

Noises In The Attic

Animal in attic sounds

Hearing knocking sound in the attic, tapping noise on the ceiling, or scraping noises behind the walls. Sounds like you have a some species of Animal in your attic. The most common species of wildlife that live in attics are Birds, Bats, Mice, Raccoons, and, Squirrels.

Remove critters from attic

Identifying the Animal in Your Attic

Animal in attic scratching at night? Scratching in attic at night will almost always be a nocturnal species of wildlife. Sounds in attic will seem louder because the noises in the attic are amplified. Species like Mice, Rats, Raccoons, & Bats are usually the scratching noise in attic at night.

Noises In Attic Early Morning

Scratching noise in ceiling in the morning will usually be one of the nocturnal species of wildlife listed above. But if the sun is rising in the morning, Squirrels might be your nuisance noise in attic problem.

Noises in the Attic During the Day

Squirrels are most active during the day. Gray Squirrels are the most common species that make a tapping noise in attic during day.

Animal In Attic Noise At Night

How loud are the noises?

"Sounds like someone walking in my attic." Yikes, you might have a Raccoon or multiple Raccoons in the attic. Animals like Raccoons will sound like a person walking around your attic space. Coming and going from the property at night. Using the Attic for raising pups, shelter, and breeding. Raccoons might leave but if the property is not repaired. The Raccoons will come back to the safe attic of your home.

Animal Removal From Attic

Bear Wildlife Services has many different solutions to solve the animal in attic sounds.

From Trapping, Controlling, & Removing wildlife with humane procedures of nuisance wildlife Control. Don't wait any longer Call Now for Immediate wildlife service.

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