Squirrel and rat removal during cold weather

For many, the cold weather is a great time to gather inside as a family in a warm, cozy home. Unfortunately, wildlife tends to agree. Squirrels and rats use the cold weather as a cue to find a warm, dry places to bring themselves and their families together. In the woods, this tends to be a hollow tree or inside a stump. In a neighborhood, animals may find an attic, crawl space or outbuilding.

How Wildlife Damages Your Home
Animals in your walls, crawl spaces and attics can cause significant damage. They may burrow into insulation and destroy its temperature protecting properties. They may chew electrical wires, urinate and defecate throughout your home.

Why Remove Wildlife during Cold Weather
Rodents like Squirrels and rats who have found their way into your home need to be removed. To do so during the spring or fall comes with complications due to breeding seasons. The winter, however, is a simple and excellent time for Rodent control in Marietta. There are no babies to be concerned about at this time, only adults.

How Homeowners try to remove Wildlife
While you may try poison or trapping yourself, it is a temporary solution at best. Poisoning runs the risk of affecting other animals that you don’t want to hurt, like local pets, as well as having animals die between walls and in other places where you cannot easily find or extract them. Trapping requires some skill, and it does not address the problem of new animals finding the same entrances to your attic or crawl spaces.

How Experts Remove Wildlife
Professional companies involved in wildlife removal service, will first work to find all of the entrance/exit points that wildlife is using to access your home. This may be done several different ways, including with wildlife cameras or infrared detection cameras and also includes a detailed, expert inspection. For squirrels and other natural wildlife, most of the points are then sealed in a way that they cannot be re-opened, with a few remaining left open with excluder devices. This will allow the animals to exit, but not to return. Rats, on the other hand, may be trapped and removed. Once all of the animals have left your home, the remaining areas will be sealed as well. Many companies will also do an inspection of possible new points of entry that have not yet become wildlife doors, like failing soffits. Once the removal is complete, cleanup of your damaged attic or walls may be performed without worrying about reinfestation.