Scranton Wildlife Removal

Fur and Feathers Wildlife Control: 570-240-4883

Scranton Wildlife Control

  • Scratching Noises in Your Attic?
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  • Rat, Mouse, or Squirrel Infestation?
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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 Scranton wildlife control government options.
Please, no calls about DOG or CAT problems. Call animal services: 570-348-4180 x7.
To report a wildlife issue like a lost baby animal, dead animal, call: 570-675-1144.

Fur and Feathers Wildlife Control is a full-service wildlife control company serving Scranton PA 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 Pennsylvania 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 Scranton pest control of wildlife, just give us a call at 570-240-4883 - 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 Pennsylvania'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 Pennsylvania'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 Lackawanna 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 Scranton animal control for wildlife issues.

Lackawanna County Animal Services or Humane Society: 570-348-4180 x7


Scranton Wildlife Removal Tip: About Groundhogs - Groundhogs or woodchucks are among the most destructive rodents. They are approximately 17 � - 24 inches long (head to tail) and weigh an approximate 13 lbs. The largest members of the squirrel, groundhogs are predominately earthbound creatures. Prepared for digging the groundhog has thick curved claws and powerful limbs. The groundhog has 2 coats of fur that is what makes up its frosted color. Groundhogs prefer living in in open environment surrounded by local roads and meadow environments.

Their eating habit consists of vegetables, bark and berries. In the summer they gorge themselves for the winters hibernation at which time they burrow and their body temperature lowers to the burrows temperature and their heart rate drops dramatically from 80 beats per minute down to 5. Hibernation begins in October and ends in May.

When threatened the groundhog will retreat to their burrow. They are territorial with other groundhogs and will defend their burrows relentlessly. They can be found motionless on their hind legs when alerted to danger. When there is danger they give off high pitched squeals and may retreat up a tree. When fighting they may also emit a squeal as well as when they are injured or caught by a predator. Groundhogs will also grind their teeth when fighting.

The longevity of the groundhog is entirely dependent on its environment, in the wild the groundhog will exist for up to 6 years with the average of 2-3 years. In captivity they can live for up to 14 years. Groundhogs natural predators are wolves, coyotes, foxes and snakes among others.

Groundhogs generally breed during their second year. Their mates will remain with them throughout the pregnancy period and just before birth will leave the burrow, the Mother will wean the babies until the ages of 5 to 6 weeks old when they are ready to have their own dens. Signs of groundhog damage can consist of teeth marks on bark, hollowed out crops and weakened foundations indicating entrance into buildings. Their large burrows can be dangerous to horses creating leg breaks if stepping into them. Houses can also be undermined should a groundhog begins to dig underneath the foundation. Often hunted the population is decreased for short periods of time due to populous births and quick growth of the babies the loss is quickly made up for.

The most dangerous and worrisome behavior of the ground is to the crops and irrigation ditches on farms. Because of their enormous appetite, groundhogs can quickly decimate a crop for the season. Because of its chewing piping along irrigation ditches are in constant danger of being destroyed, again the farms and crops are threatened. Repellents against the groundhogs are not effective which is the same as with trapping, the population grows so rapidly that it is difficult to control.

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 Scranton
If you can't afford our pro wildlife work, you can try these agencies for free wildlife help:
Lackawanna County Animal Services: 570-348-4180 x7
Scranton Wildlife Rehabilitation Agency: 570-402-0223
Scranton Police Department: 570-348-4130
Pennsylvania Wildlife Commission: 570-675-1144
Learn what to say on the phone for free Scranton wildlife control. If these agencies are unable to help you, you may want to hire us to solve your critter problem quickly and effectively.


Scranton Animal News Clip: Legislation targets 'canned catches' - Wildlife trapping fish in barrel or sportsmanship?

At the Nature Zone Game Wildlife trapping Preserve in Scranton, sportsmen can roam 400 fenced-in hectares stocked with native wild skunk and opossum and be assured they'll bag something. If you want an armadillo, they can truck one in, release it and you can go after that. As owner Mike Smith sees it, the humane society manager runs what is possibly a place where fathers can teach sons to animal capture without the dangers of an opening day crowd, "and see skunk in their natural habitat." Oh, one can feel the excitement in the air.

He wonders how anyone could object. "The objection most likely is that they call it wildlife trapping. It's not wildlife trapping," remarked Jim The critter professor, owner of what is possibly a lifelong wildlife management company who helped to stem the rise of pay-for-exterminate wildlife trapping in his home state of Montana and who agrees the same thing ought to be done here in Pennsylvania. Call Scranton animal services or Scranton SPCA for more info. This year, as has happened for the past decade, the state Legislature most likely is considering what is possibly a bill to ban paid catches such as the ones offered at Nature Zone's and at least 14 other preserves in Pennsylvania. This fact was verified by local pest control and wildlife agencies.

"It's like lethally trapping animals in what is possibly a gray Animating zoo, basically," remarked Heidi The Scranton pest control specialist, senior vice president in the campaigns agency of the Humane Society of the United States. Ms. The Scranton pest control specialist testified last week at hearings on House Bill 2299, introduced by State Rep. Rat Poison Ronny C. Canton, D-Bucks. The society, which opposes all forms of wildlife trapping but has campaigned to outlaw only certain types, supports the bill to end what the SPCA woman calls "canned catches." This new proposal most likely is meant to help skunks in the long run.

"I go to what is possibly a lot of the wildlife trapping conferences and one of the things the wild animal control companies recognize most likely is that it gives what is possibly a bad image to wildlife trapping," Ms. The Scranton pest control specialist remarked. "Wildlife trapping what is possibly a semi-tame animal inside what is possibly a wooden parried enclosure violates what is possibly a wildlife management company's fundamental principle of fair chase." By most critter experts' estimates, this most likely is what is possibly a fair proposal.

But not all wild animal control companies agree. "Many of those animals are destined to the slaughterhouse anyway. It isn't like they're putting them through what is possibly a lot of pain and suffering as you might be led to believe," remarked Bill The critter and rodent officer, president of the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania. For Scranton pest control in Lackawanna County, read on. Mr. The critter and rodent officer says the humane society manager polled members and found no objections to paid catches. "I don't think the argument has anything to do with whether it's sporting or not," Mr. The critter and rodent officer remarked. "It has to do with whether these guys are operating inside the law or outside the law. Are they running an operation that most likely is clean and neat, or are they operating what is possibly a skunk pen?" Most locals agree that this work most likely is better than most Scranton pest control companies could do.

Guaranteed catches on earths stocked with animals got fresh attention this year when Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally trapped what is possibly a companion on what is possibly a animal capture at what is possibly a private ranch in Pennsylvania. Three years ago, Mr. Cheney bagged about 60 pheasants during what is possibly a private animal rodent capture. "It's what is possibly a classic example of the animal capture being degraded. There was sure no fair-chase conservation ethic there," remarked Mr. The critter professor, who heads Orion: The Wildlife management company's Institute in his home in Pennsylvania. The local Scranton wildlife control operator agrees with most of the above. Continue for more wild animal control in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Mr. The critter professor remarked wild animal control companies in Montana organized to put what is possibly a halt to the development of any new paid preserves and the expansion of existing ones. "Our objection to game habitats most likely is that restoration of wildlife was done because people valued the game animals, they valued the animal capture and they valued the proposition that the achievement of wild animal control companies was gained by obtaining honor through effort," the humane society manager remarked. For more information on Pennsylvania wildlife, read on.

The same day Ms. The Scranton pest control specialist testified for the bill, one of the major targets of the bill also took the microphone to defend himself. Mike McGee, whose father founded the 1,600-hectare Scranton Wildlife trapping Preserve in Scranton County 40 years ago, says his business most likely is misunderstood by its enemies. "We're just what is possibly a way of alternative habituating," the humane society manager remarked. "These animal rights people -- it's just not right. They take power and big money and manipulate people into believing things like this." Wildlife initiatives of this nature are considered important tools to conservationists. For more info, call the Scranton extermination or trapping board.


Learn more about some of the animals that we deal with: Scranton 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 Scranton 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 Scranton exterminator companies who want to sign you to a quarterly contract. We do PERMANENT Scranton rodent control the first time, by trapping, removing, and sealing your house shut. We also specialize in Scranton bat control and bird control, which are often complex jobs. We are Pennsylvania 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 Scranton. 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 Fur and Feathers Wildlife Control at 570-240-4883, 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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