Charlotte County Animal Services

Raccoon Removal in Charlotte County, FL

In Charlotte County, Florida you will encounter typically four different species or types of rodents: Roof Rats: Roof Rats, Fruit Rats, Norway Rats, or Black Rats. At 24/7 Wildlife Control we offer trapping of the rats in you Charlotte County FL home, complete exclusions to seal your home and prevent access by other rats, attic sanitation and restoration.

Trapping rats takes a high level of skill, suburban rats, like the ones you’ll find in your Charlotte County, Florida home, are highly adept and have learned to be very smart to avoid humans so they can stay in the comfort of your home. At 24/7 Wildlife Control our staff is well trained and knows how to locate the offending rats, their passage ways, their scent trails, their nests, and how to properly bait and trap rats.

Snap traps, the kind you find at your local hardware store are good for one or two rats, but after the first few catches the other rats in the colony learn to avoid your bait and traps, leaving you with still more rats and no solution to your rodent infestation problem. The key to successful rat trapping in Charlotte County FL is minimizing the scent of humans on the traps and knowing where to put them on the rodent scent trail, a skill that everyone at 24/7 Wildlife Control is taught and exercises frequently because rodents are a common year-round problem in Charlotte County Florida.

Rodents in Charlotte County, Florida are a nuisance, but they can also be a hazard to your home. They will gain access to the smallest spaces, they breed frequently and are known to have litters of rat pups of up to two-dozen at one time, and will cause damage to your home. Rats chew on the insulation in your attic to make the nest, rats will defecate and urinate on every surface of your attic, they will chew on our electrical wires, your home security wires, your air conditioning ductwork, your water piping, and will even chew on your walls to create more or larger access points to your attic. All of this can potentially create dangerous problems to your home and property. Rats also carry diseases, as do their favorite food, insects, and those diseases are left behind in their droppings in your attic and on your insulation.

Removal of the rats should be done immediately after noticing signs of a rodent infestation in your Charlotte County home. Signs of a rat or rodent infestation include scurrying sounds during the early morning or late evening times, holes in the roof or ceiling, foul odor of rat urine and feces, and the sight of a rodent in your home. It is not recommended that homeowners or occupants of the home attempt to catch the rodents themselves, a call to 24/7 Wildlife Control will begin the process of trapping, removal, sanitation, restoration, and exclusion of your attic and home. All of the work related to rats and rodents in the Charlotte County, Florida area is guaranteed with at one to three-year renewable warranty.

Opossum Trapping and Removal in Charlotte County FL

Bat removal in Florida is extremely important and often both difficult and dangerous and should only be performed by a wildlife expert like 24/7 Wildlife Control. Bats are plentiful in Charlotte County FL and can be found in all buildings, homes, churches, businesses, stores, restaurants, apartment complexes, essentially any structure in Florida can be a home to a colony of bats. Bats in Florida like to fly in the highest spaces of 15 feet or taller, this helps them avoid their natural predators, that’s why the like to make their home in your attics, especially in the two or three story homes and buildings.

Bats inside your Charlotte County Florida homes generally defecate in one specific area, and that feces, referred to a guano is very dangerous to humans and is full of disease bacteria that include histopalsmosis and the hanta virus. This guano builds up quickly, especially when there are large numbers of bats in the attic and will cause health problems for the human inhabitants of the home.

Evidence of bats in your Charlotte County FL home include noises during the early evening and dusk hours, hearing the bat’s usage of eco-location or chirping, a rancid smell of bat guano, and the site of bats inside your home or in your outdoor areas. You should call 24/7 Wildlife Control for the humane removal of the bats, bat control, a full cleaning and sanitation of your attic against the diseases bats carry, and sealing of all entry points created by the bats. At 24/7 Wildlife Control we specialize in bat removal and offer a guarantee on our work.

Bats are a protected species in Florida, they help to control the mosquito population and are extremely beneficial to the environment, but they are a health hazard when they decide to make their home in your Charlotte County Florida home. Call 24/7 Wildlife Control for the safe and humane removal of the bats, a thorough cleaning of the space they occupied, and sealing of all entrances they used to gain access to your home.

Squirrel Removal in Charlotte County FL

Armadillos can be a more than a pesky garden pest in Charlotte. These invasive species will dig burrows that can damage the foundation of your house in Charlotte and also create ideal Gardens for other animals including venomous snakes, skunks, and rats!