Urbandale Wildlife Removal

Southern Iowa Critter Catcher: 515-204-2864

Urbandale Wildlife Control

  • Scratching Noises in Your Attic?
  • Wildlife Problems on Your Property?
  • Bird or Bat Problem in Your Building?
  • Rat, Mouse, or Squirrel Infestation?
  • We Can Solve It (Today)!

Check our year 2024 prices for wildlife control work. Call us 24/7 to schedule an appointment.
If you can't afford our services, read about free Urbandale wildlife control government options.
Please, no calls about DOG or CAT problems. Call animal services: 515-286-3333.
To report a wildlife issue like a lost baby animal, dead animal, call: 515-725-8200.

Southern Iowa Critter Catcher is a full-service wildlife control company serving Urbandale IA and the surrounding area. We specialize in urban and suburban wildlife damage management for both residential and commercial customers. We are state licensed by the Iowa Fish & Wildlife Commission. We handle nearly all aspects of wildlife control, and resolve conflicts between people and wildlife in a humane and professional manner. For Urbandale pest control of wildlife, just give us a call at 515-204-2864 - yes, we answer our phones 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - and we will discuss your wildlife problem and schedule an appointment to solve it. We look forward to hearing from you!


Many of Iowa's wild animals have learned to adapt and even thrive in our homes. For example some wildlife have found that attics make great places to live. Other animals find refuge under homes or porches. Invariably, these animals cause damage. Rodents, like squirrels and rats, love to chew on electrical wires once in an attic, and this causes a serious fire hazard. Raccoons can cause serious contamination in an attic with their droppings and parasites. Same goes for bat or bird colonies. We specialize in solving Iowa's wildlife problems, from snake removal to large jobs like commercial bat control, we do it all.

We handle every aspect of wildlife control. We are fully equipped to work on any project, large or small. Some of our services include:

  • Humane wildlife trapping and relocaton services
  • Removal of raccoons or squirrels from the attic
  • Building repairs and prevention work to keep animals out
  • 100% permanent elimination of rats, mice, or even bats
  • Cleanup of animal waste and odor control services
  • Emergency animal issues, and dead animal removal

We do not handle dog or cat problems. If you need assistance with a domestic animal, such as a dog or a cat, you need to call your local Polk county animal services for assistance. They can help you out with issues such as stray dogs, stray cats, spay & neuter programs, vaccinations, licenses, pet adoption, bite reports, deceased pets, lost pets, local animal complaints and to report neglected or abused animals. There is no free Urbandale animal control for wildlife issues.

Polk County Animal Services or Humane Society: 515-286-3333


Urbandale Wildlife Removal Tip:

Keeping raccoons out from under a shed or porch

Raccoons are most widely spread all around North America. These mammals are highly intelligent and curious which makes them even more dangerous to landowners since they use their intelligence to their advantage and cause mayhem for them. They are notoriously known to destroy yards, tipping over garbage and even structural damage, so it is natural for the landowners to be worried about their presence on the property.

How to keep them out?

At the point when a raccoon lives under the shed or the deck in January or in September, it is usually thought to be a mother that is soon to undergo labor. You ought to be watchful since you may end up making the children without the care of a mother. The raccoons typically will move the children away when they feel that they are frightened, anyway ousting the mother raccoon will dependably risk abandoning the infants or to end up isolated far from the children.

Be tolerant with a mother raccoon

Your first choice is to do nothing by any means. Raccoons commonly live in underground bills for brief periods. Raccoon babies are self-dependent before the finish of summer when they leave home and scatter from their family. Raccoon moms likewise generally move their infants between different sites during nesting season so that she may leave alone.

If you can hold up until the point that the children are developed or potentially have abandoned, you can then close the passage to keep different raccoons from utilizing the deck or shed as a den later on.

Methods to remove them

You can put the bright light on the passageway of the burrow both outside and inside. You have to ensure that the light is fire-safe. The raccoons are regularly nocturnal mammals, and they won't draw close to your home when you introduce birth lights close to their doorstep. You can tune in a discussion station to your radio and put it at their entrance. The music won't move away from the raccoons, yet the hints of the human voices are typically a cause of threat to them.

Be patient

Whatever technique you utilize, you need to be patient and tolerant. You need to continue everything going for three days and furthermore for three evenings. You must be determined so you can persuade the raccoons to leave. When you have attempted the techniques for pursuing the raccoons away, you need to test to ensure that the raccoons have left for sure. You can utilize a mesh into the ground to ensure that the Alabama raccoons or different animals are fended off of your home. Regularly, it's not a smart thought to trap and to move the raccoons elsewhere.


What Prices Do We Charge?
Every job is different: the type of animals involved, is it in the attic or the yard, do you need repairs, etc. It's impossible to have set pricing in this industry. Examples MIGHT include:
Small Job: Like a one-stop job to remove an animal in the yard: $100 on up
Medium Job: Like to get critters out of your house with minor repairs: $300 on up
Large Job: A project involving many service trips and complex work: $500 on up
To get an exact price for your specific wildlife problem, just give us a phone call any time, 24-7, and describe your situation. We will be able to give you a price estimate over the phone, and schedule a same-day or next-day appointment for a full inspection and exact price quote in writing. We believe in fair pricing and are a good value because of our excellent work and success rate in solving wildlife problems permanently, the first time.

Resources for free wildlife removal in Urbandale
If you can't afford our pro wildlife work, you can try these agencies for free wildlife help:
Polk County Animal Services: 515-286-3333
Urbandale Wildlife Rehabilitation Agency:
Urbandale Police Department: 515-278-3938
Iowa Wildlife Commission: 515-725-8200
Learn what to say on the phone for free Urbandale wildlife control. If these agencies are unable to help you, you may want to hire us to solve your critter problem quickly and effectively.


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Learn more about some of the animals that we deal with: Urbandale raccoon removal - raccoons frequently break into attics, tip over garbage cans, rip up your lawn, defecate in your pool, and more. Trapping them is not always simple. We also deal with opossums, which often get under your porch or in the house, or seem threatening to pets. We do Urbandale squirrel removal, especially from the attic or walls of your home. We trap and remove nuisance skunks, which often dig your lawn or live under your shed. The same goes for groundhogs in the north, or armadillos in the south. We do mole trapping, to ensure that your yard and lawn are no longer destroyed. One of our specialites is rat and mouse control. We don't use poison like the big-name Urbandale exterminator companies who want to sign you to a quarterly contract. We do PERMANENT Urbandale rodent control the first time, by trapping, removing, and sealing your house shut. We also specialize in Urbandale bat control and bird control, which are often complex jobs. We are Iowa certified to remove all bats humanely, and permanently. We also prevent birds from roosting in unwanted areas. We do snake control services, even removal of venomous snakes of Urbandale. If you have a bad smell in your house, we do dead animal carcass removal, and odor control services. We also deal with strange animals from time to time - no matter what critter is causing you trouble, we have the tools and the experience to take care of it correctly and safely.

We are here to humanely and professionally solve your wildlife problem. Call Southern Iowa Critter Catcher at 515-204-2864, and we will listen to your problem, give you a price quote, and schedule a fast appointment to help you with your wild animal issue.

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