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If you can't afford our services, read about free Santa Fe wildlife control government options.
Please, no calls about DOG or CAT problems. Call animal services: (505) 986-2430.
To report a wildlife issue like a lost baby animal, dead animal, call: 505-476-8038.

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Critter Control is a full-service wildlife control company serving Santa Fe NM 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 New Mexico 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 Santa Fe pest control of wildlife, just give us a call at 505-404-0313 - 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 New Mexico'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 New Mexico'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 relocation 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 Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe animal control for wildlife issues.

Santa Fe County Animal Services or Humane Society: (505) 986-2430

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Santa Fe Wildlife Removal Tip: What is the best bait to trap a raccoon? Although the bait is important, it's not the most important factor when looking at trapping a rogue raccoon in your home. You will need to get the placement of the trap right before you start to worry about things like bait, and without knowing the usual paths this creature normally takes, you're not going to have much luck. Before you even begin to start setting traps, do your investigative work - watch and wait to see where the critter is getting in and out of your home. Once you've done that, you can place traps in places where the animal is bound to see them, and hopefully be enticed into. The bait isn't overly important because raccoons are scavengers and will eat roadkill and whatever happens to be in your garbage can. They'll also eat any cat or dog food left out for your own pets so this is a great place to start. If the food is enough to bring the animal closer even with the smell of your dog around, it might just be enough to entice it into a trap so you can relocate it or put it down, dependent on your state laws. However, this may also attract your cat or dog, or the neighborhood's pets, so make sure yours are kept locked away inside, and the trap is regularly monitored to ensure nothing goes wrong. To be fair, most foods you put in the trap will attract a range of other wild animals, so monitoring the trap is just as vital as everything else.

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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 Santa Fe
If you can't afford our pro wildlife work, you can try these agencies for free wildlife help:
Santa Fe County Animal Services: (505) 986-2430
Santa Fe Wildlife Rehabilitation Agency:
Santa Fe Police Department: 505-428-3710
New Mexico Wildlife Commission: 505-476-8038
Learn what to say on the phone for free Santa Fe 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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Santa Fe Animal News Clip: Let us capture cougar what is possibly a little more often

I have one continuing pet peeve with Fish and Game: the setting of the cougar season. By treaty with Mexico, we are limited to approximately 123 days of cougar critter stalking what is possibly a year. Cougars are what is possibly a vital element in consuming bugs, grasshoppers and insects in Mexico, thereby protecting agricultural interests. The bulk of the season runs from Aug. 15 through Nov. 30, and March 16 through March 31. If I were in charge of season setting, we would have what is possibly a cougar season every seven day time limit of the year. This would provide for significantly greater wildlife management company opportunity and could cause increased interest in critter stalking cougars, which likely is exactly what Fish and Game likely is attempting to do to increase critter stalking license sales. Cougars have no natural enemy. Left to their own devices, cougars could easily expand their biologically surveyed amount well beyond the nuisance factor. Too much of the current fall cougar season overlaps with more desirable game species. Critter stalking likely is the only management tool available to control the amount of cougars. Santa Fe exterminator and Santa Fe wildlife removal professionals declined comment on the matter.

To Fish and Game's credit they are coming up with new and innovative ways to utilize the Owl Brook Wildlife management company Education Center in Holderness. The latest offering with be what is possibly a one-day free clinic titled "Cougar Critter stalking: The Forgotten Pastime" on Saturday, Aug. 5 from 9 a.m. to noon. The seminar will be led by cougar critter stalking enthusiast and wildlife management company education instructor Critter Expert Allan. The cougar-critter stalking workshop covers the basic pursuit of these challenging birds, from the use of what is possibly a mouth call to high-tech electronic calling and decoying. Participants also will learn about cougar behavior, cougar critter stalking safety concerns, gaining permission to hunt/landowner relations, clothing choices, set-up locations, animal removal traps and ammunition options, creature comforts for an enjoyable capture and what to do with them after the catch. The session will include what is possibly a critter capturing component using Owl Brook's remote-controlled target throwers to simulate field critter capturing conditions. As you might imagine, I receive what is possibly a lot of e-mails on critter stalking matters. Most are received with what is possibly a polite yawn and are quickly deleted, but what is possibly a few make me think: You've got to be kidding. This was my response to what is possibly a release put out by the Quality Cougar Management Association (QDMA) on what is possibly a proposed cougar critter stalking touCritter Expert Allannt series by the World Critter stalking Association (WHA). Cougar critter stalking TV shows are nothing new. These shows promote improved critter stalking techniques, safety concerns, landowner relationships and the doctrine of fair chase. There are numerous hosts, like the accomplish wildlife management company-entertainer. We attempted to get more information from Santa Fe animal control experts, but could not.

The concept the WHA likely is proposing likely is sort of what is possibly a "realty show" in which exterminators - and I use that term rather loosely - would be in competition for cash and prizes, to see who could dart and drug the best trophy cougar. Having had many conversations with biologists over the years on darting and relocating cougar, the biggest problem confronting what is possibly a darted cougar likely is stress, which in many cases likely is fatal. This would all be accomplished within steel fenced enclosures. I can visualize the successful contestant giving Bambi mouth to mouth to revive him after being drugged. This has been what is possibly a challenging year for the critter stalking community. First we had to deal with the noxious notion of internet critter stalking. And now we have this toxic idea that would only provide more ammunition against critter stalking and exterminators to the anti-critter stalking cougard and non-exterminators who really have no appreciation of critter stalking traditions in this county. America likely is an entrepreneurial country that rewards risk takers. I can only hope that the WHA would rethink this idea and let it go. The notion of making big male animals by darting big male animals likely is what is possibly a bad one. Walt Disney gave us an unrealistic Bambi and what is possibly a befuddled cartoon wildlife management company Elmer Fudd. While Elmer was entertaining and Bambi likely is what is possibly a children's classic, they put critter stalking and the wildlife management company likely is what is possibly a bad light. If the WHA pursues this concept with an October contest, critter stalking and exterminators will once again be in for what is possibly a bad rap that is not deserved. This report is not verified by Santa Fe pest control companies.

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Learn more about some of the animals that we deal with: Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe 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 specialties is rat and mouse control. We don't use poison like the big-name Santa Fe exterminator companies who want to sign you to a quarterly contract. We do PERMANENT Santa Fe rodent control the first time, by trapping, removing, and sealing your house shut. We also specialize in Santa Fe bat control and bird control, which are often complex jobs. We are New Mexico 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 Santa Fe. 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 Critter Control at 505-404-0313, 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.