At Covenant Wildlife Removal, we adore the precious creatures we share our planet with. However, we prefer them to stay where they can thrive in their natural habitats. Wild animals do not belong in the city or on residential properties. This is where we come to the rescue with our critter control services.
Our staff is skilled, respectful, and knowledgeable about the common critters that make their way onto our properties or inside our homes. From tiny mice and rats to ominous bats, the team at Covenant Wildlife handles it all.
Read on to discover more about the creatures we remove and how our critter control services work.
Critter Control for Your Property
If you are a farmer or a gardener, you certainly don’t want animals roaming the property. Likewise, if you have invested a great deal of time and money into your lawn, critters are not a good thing to see digging in the landscaping. Wild animals can destroy all your hard work in a matter of a night.
Building their nests and foraging for food can tear up your garden and uproot your lawn. When they decide your bushes are an ideal place to nest, they can significantly destroy the bushes’ branch system. What’s more, if the animal gets territorial, you have a dangerous problem on your hands.
Beautiful deer will eat your gorgeous flowers and garden, as will raccoons, skunks, snakes, moles, squirrels, and other rodents. They are exciting and fun to watch, but not as if they make a mess on your property.
Call on Covenant Wildlife for humane and effective critter control services. We’ll have them off your property in no time.
Critter Control for Your Home
When a critter makes its way into the attic, crawl space, basement, garage, or shed, it can create an awful mess. Here are a few of the issues they will cause in your home.
- Rodents will chew wiring, tear up insulation, and destroy the walls in the area they choose.
- Raccoons are one of the messiest critters. Not only will they tear up insulation, but they will defecate and urinate in one pile called a “latrine.” That spot will then become contaminated, needing professional remediation.
- Bats drop their guano all over, spreading bacteria and disease.
- Don’t get us started on the woodpecker. If you have ever had wood siding or pillars on your home, you know exactly what we’re talking about.
So, if you think you may have a critter in your home, it is best to call Covenant for critter control immediately.
What Critters Do We Handle?
There are many stunning and unique animals in Alabama. We are proud to do our part in returning these creatures to their rightful environments. At Covenant Wildlife Removal, we handle just about any animal that comes our way. However, there are a handful of critters we often are called for.
The following are the most common complaints we receive when contacted for our critter control services.
Raccoons
They sure do look sweet and friendly at a distance. But raccoons are one of the last critters you want to have to handle on your own.
When first observing raccoons on your property, they will likely be shy and skittish. Soon, they will build the courage to approach you and your family. This can be a hazardous situation for anyone. Raccoons will defend themselves if they feel threatened. Plus, they carry awful diseases that can be easily transferred to both humans and their pets, like rabies and raccoon roundworms.
And as mentioned before, raccoons can inflict significant damage to your home and property. They’ll knock over outdoor trash cans and destroy vents, chimney caps, shutters, and shingles.
Mice and Rats
A mouse or rat infestation can happen in the blink of an eye. These tiny rodents reproduce quickly. So, it’s safe to assume there are always more if you see just one mouse or rat.
Mice and rats can be very destructive indoors. They chew electrical wires, causing fires and putting you and your family at risk. Furthermore, they can gnaw through metals, concrete, plastics, and wood with their large teeth or incisors.
To top it all off, they will leave stains and odors from their waste and contaminate pantry products or exposed food. When humans unknowingly consume food soiled by rats and mice, they can contract all kinds of diseases. They also spread illness through biting and carrying parasites, like ticks and fleas.
Squirrels
It’s pretty fascinating to watch squirrels burying nuts and scurrying up trees. They are undoubtedly adorable wild animals. But when they enter your home, squirrels can do loads of damage. They tear up insulation, ruin surfaces with their urine and feces, and chew structures and wires.
Outdoors, pesky squirrels can dig up your yard and home garden. However, a squirrel problem is best left to the professionals. Their cute appearance is deceiving because squirrels will not hesitate to bite when cornered.
Call on Covenant Wildlife Removal to return the squirrels to their natural home with our critter control services.
Bats
Bats have been protected on the Endangered Species list for many years. This legal regulation makes it crucial to contact a professional wildlife company when they are causing issues in or around your house.
Unfortunately, bat habitats and populations have been in decline. So, they are essentially forced to choose your attic, crawl space, or chimney as their new cave. “Bat exclusion” is a safe, effective, and humane method of critter control we use at Covenant Wildlife.
Bats can spread diseases and cause significant damage to your home. But, most importantly, they belong in the wild, where they can truly thrive and restore their populations.
Give us a call if you suspect bats nesting in your home.
Critter Prevention
Preventing the critters from coming in is the first step. While wildlife repellents work on some animals, they can be unsafe for pets and family members. You may need to take several additional measures to control them from entering the yard or home. Luckily, preventing critters and pests is simpler than you think.
- First, remove any overgrown brush they may be able to hide or build a nest.
- Now, ensure no food source attracts them, like pet food left on the porch, bird feeders, and fruit fallen from trees on the ground.
- Then cover trash cans with tight-fitting lids.
- Fence the yard with a tall fence to keep out larger wildlife.
- Keep limbs trimmed and away from the roofline.
- Store firewood off the ground.
- Cover entries such as the chimney, gutters, downspouts, and vents.
- Finally, ensure the structure of your home is free of any damages, like small cracks and openings.
The best thing to do is to call Covenant to inspect the yard and house and recommend a plan to critter control your personal space.
Critter Removal with Covenant
When you call for critter control at Covenant Wildlife, you are making a wise choice. Because animal removal isn’t always as simple as encouraging them out, an expert is called to remediate the area.
Controlling the wildlife in your area of Alabama may prove to be challenging. Countless clients have spent too much time and money trying to eradicate a nuisance animal when they finally call Covenant. So, do yourself a favor and call as soon as you identify a problem critter on your property, especially if you get one in the house.
Humane Wildlife Removal
Even better, Covenant Wildlife prides itself on our humane removal techniques. Humane wildlife removal involves respectful and safe methods that cause our precious local animals no harm. We do our best to return the creature to its natural habitat while treating it with care and kindness.
While other pest control companies see wildlife as a “problem,” Covenant has another perspective. Each animal is vital to balancing fragile ecosystems surrounding our cities and residential areas. Without humane critter control, our world wouldn’t be the same. The bottom line, these animals deserve our respect.
Critter Control Services in Alabama
If you suspect a pest infestation of any kind, reach out to our team. Covenant Wildlife is happy to safely remove the critters causing you trouble.
One more thought, there are a lot of protected animals in the state of Alabama. If you have a critter on your property and don’t know every protected animal, then you may want to call someone who does. The professionals at Covenant Wildlife Removal know which animals are covered, how to handle them, and where to take them for relocation.
