Animals We Handle
Wildlife doesn't belong in your attic, crawlspace, or walls. Critter Kickers provides professional wildlife removal and exclusion services for homeowners throughout North Carolina.
Raccoons
Raccoons are smart, adaptable, and excellent at finding their way into your home. Raccoons can cause significant damage to your home, including damaging roofing and chewing through exterior materials to create entry points. Once inside your home, raccoons can destroy duct work and soil insulation with urine and feces, creating an environment where bacteria and other disease-causing organisms can thrive. Raccoons are also rabies-vector species, making it unsafe to have them living inside your home.
Squirrels
Squirrels are excellent jumpers, allowing them to access the rooflines of your home. They will chew on wood and other materials to create entry points, and once inside, they can wreak havoc in your attic. You may hear them scurrying across the attic floor, especially first thing in the morning or at dusk, when they are most active as they leave and return to your home.
Squirrels can also be attracted to certain types of electrical wire insulation, which may lead to chewing on electrical wiring and create a potential fire hazard. During breeding season, mother squirrels may use attic insulation as a nesting area to give birth and raise their young.
Bats
Often misunderstood, bats play an important role in the ecosystem and consume large numbers of insects, including mosquitoes. However, they are not an animal you want living inside your home. Bats typically roost in colonies, which can range from just a few bats to a hundred or more. They may enter through gable vents, roofline openings, and other access points, where they can establish colonies in attic spaces.
When bats colonize an attic or other enclosed areas, they leave behind droppings known as guano. Accumulated guano can create unpleasant odors and may support the growth of fungi that can pose health concerns.
Bats are also a rabies-vector species. Although only a small percentage of bats carry rabies, exposure to a bat should always be taken seriously. Because bats are nocturnal, you may notice them leaving your gable vents or other roofline access points around dusk.
If you suspect bats are living in your home, professional exclusion is important to safely remove them and prevent them from returning.
Rodents
A single rodent can have multiple litters of young each year, producing dozens of offspring in a relatively short period of time. This can lead to a rodent problem taking over your home very quickly.
Rodents can enter a home through surprisingly small openings around the foundation, crawlspace, basement, and even rooflines. They can chew through walls and other materials to gain access to different areas of your home and find hidden spaces to nest.
Insulation inside your home can provide an ideal nesting material for rodents. They can leave urine and feces behind as they move throughout your home, creating unsanitary conditions and potentially exposing your family to diseases carried by rodent waste.