Animal Capture Wildlife Control

Jeremy and Ben did a thorough and professional job in capturing and removing for release 4 raccoons and 2 opossums that were damaging my yard. They first did a property assessment, listened to all my concerns and answered all questions, then set and baited cages. Over a period of approximately two weeks, several animals were caught. They were extremely responsive to my phone calls and arrived very promptly to pick up the captured animals. They display a strong commitment to their work and a deep understanding of nature and the details of their work.

They were terrific. Prompt service as I was freaking out a little. Calmed me down. Success!

Jeremy and his crew were great. They know what they are doing. Over a week we caught 6 animals. No problems since. Each time we called to say there were animals in the traps, they came right out.

This company did a great job for me removing my skunk problem. The owner, Jeremy, set up traps near my open crawl space and taught me how to use them. He always took my calls and answered my questions, including how to let an opossum out of one of the traps on the second day. After four days and no skunks he came back out to check under the house, remove the traps and seal up the crawl space. The smell had increased overnight and he confirmed my suspicions that a skunk had died. He crawled under the house, bagged it, sprayed the area with an odor control solution that I provided and tightly sealed up my crawl space. He even insisted on putting the cardboard shield for the traps in the recycle bin himself. I highly recommend Animal Capture Wildlife.

not squirrels or raccoons but rats. no services provided but helpful info. glad for their advice.

There was a horrible smell in the house which was coming from one of the air vents near the floor. There were also flies. It was obviously a dead animal.  I looked on Angie's List for dead animal removal and found Animal Capture Wildlife Control. They had good reviews and I liked the fact that they don't kill animals. They remove dead animals, but capture live animals humanely and release them into the wild. I called them and made an appointment for the next morning. Near the end of the two-hour window they called and said they were running a little late, because they had found a mother raccoon and had been looking for the babies.

Ben arrived a little while later.  He was very nice and professional.  I explained the problem.  First he looked all the way around the house and shined his flashlight into every space underneath the house.  He found nothing in this first exam.  Then he came in to look at the air vent where the smell was coming from.  He said he could see very clearly in there and there was nothing; that space is not long so he could see clear through to the back.  The smell was still there but had diminished significantly from a day or two before, and there were no more flies. Ben said this means it must have been something very small, like a mouse.  If it were a rat, it would still smell horrible.  He said it was most likely in the wall, not under the house, but said he could check under the house if I wanted him to, for peace of mind. I asked him to please do this. He put on coveralls, gloves & mask and crawled under the house.

Afterward, he said he went all the way through to the middle of the house, to a spot where there was an old sump pump, where he could almost stand up.  He said he looked everywhere and checked for droppings and prints, but found none. He said it was pretty clean down there.  He explained that in a day or so the smell should be gone; I should just turn on the fan and use scented candles or other aromatherapy to freshen it up. (I later did that and it worked.)  He said that nature takes care of the decomposition, so that in a few days a small animal like this is only a skeleton. I told him I was concerned about fly eggs and maggots. He said that's not a worry, because once the host animal is decomposed, there won't be any maggots.

Ben said that in similar situations, some clients insist that they chop up their walls until the dead creature is found and removed, and their walls end up looking like Swiss cheese.  But he said trying to find something that small in walls is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

Normally the full cost for dead animal removal, which had been quoted to me over the phone, is $250 ($50 service call, $100 inspection, $100 removal of one dead animal). But since there was no dead animal to be removed, that $100 cost was eliminated.  I also got a discount as an Angie's List member.  They only take cash or checks, no credit cards.  I highly recommend Animal Capture.

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Found some access points and identified intruders as rats. Recommended other company to do work. Friendly and professional, answered all our questions and took time to show us what he saw.

This went more smoothly than I expected. Jeremy originally thought he'd have to cut a hole in the ceiling above the bathtub, but somehow he was able to determine the babies were at the base of the wall in the hallway, not in the attic where I had been hearing the mother.

Jeremy came out to home within a few hours of calling him, when I noticed a skunk under our home.  He was prompt, professional and honest.  He set correct expectations, we agreed and then he immediately went to work setting traps.  Today upon romving a captured possum, in one of the traps, he offered to crawl under the house to do a thorough inspection to be sure the skunk wasnt there,  He discovered the the skunk was still there, and he said he could go under and pull it out!  He did just that, crawled under the house, got sprayed, but wanted to be sure he got the skunk which he handled humanely.  We saw the skunk (from a safe distance) and then he was kind enough to help me secure the access area until we handle boarding up the area.  Jeremy took it upon himself to offer or suggest going under the house to be sure that we have handle the issue, he really spend a fair amount time looking, as the skunk was hiding, but due to Jeremy doing what he needed to, the skunk revealed himself, and Jeremy without hesitation, went back under and pulled him out!  This was a great relief to us, Jeremy had trapped a few possums prior and handled each call to remove the animal and reset the trap, with extreme professionalism,  This last visit brought to completion, the mission.  I would highly recommend Jeremy, he is honest, professional and truly a pro at what he does!!

Jeremy was extremely professional in dealing with the problem throughout.  He is very experienced and explained in detail all steps necessary to trap the possum.  He located a hole in the roofline that other exterminators had failed to find, set a humane trap for the animal, and accurately predicted that the possum would be trapped that evening.  He came early the next day to retrieve the animal so that it could be humanely released at a remote location.  He also left another trap in place to catch any additional animals that might have been in the attic.  This trap stayed in place for a couple more days, and then Jeremy returned to remove it.  So altogether Jeremy made three trips to my house and relocated one live animal.  He is very professional, very confident and did exactly what he promised he would do, which is terrific.  Highly recommended.

We had a skunk living in our basement. We called, they came out, set a trap/cage. When the skunk was in the trap/cage, they came out and removed it. The skunk was alive, and was released elsewhere. They also left the cage for a few extra days, just in case there were more living down there.

Very quick and easy.

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Jeremy inspected under the building on first visit and we saw a cat that looked somewhat like a raccoon from the back.  Jeremy suggested it was very likely there was only  this cat and no raccoon.  We blocked the access point for animals to go under the building, and didn't leave traps.
After more reports of  a raccoon being seen.  Jeremy and his assistant came again.  Jeremy inspected comprehensively under the building. They set up two traps in the outside area around the spot where the raccoon was last seen, and instructed me how to release cats if they get trapped, how to re-activate and re-bait the trap.  The traps remained for about 10 days. No raccoon was caught or seen.  We had to release a few cats out of the traps a few times.  It was concluded that there's no raccoon, and we had Jeremy remove the traps.
Jeremy were responsive to phone calls, punctual for appointments,  friendly and knowledgeable. He advised how to close the openings so that animals wont go under the building.

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I called 3-4 other companies - one said that it could cost as much as $350 to retrieve it, depending on how difficult it was.  I told them that the baby racoon was just lying there, but they wouldn't quote a price.  Another said that they had to trap it - that they couldn't just pick it up (again, ridiculous because the baby was just lying there.)  The other two companies never called me back.
So I called Jeremy. He said that he could easily pick it up without having to trap it - that he does it all the time. We scheduled for him to come yesterday and he was very punctual.  Jeremy also informed me that he returns healthy animals to the wild or brings baby animals to a facility at an animal humane society to take care of them until they are old enough to be released.  Sometimes he also tries to see if the baby will bond with another raccoon mother. (none of the other places that I called would do any of this).  Jeremy easily picked up the baby, but I was concerned about the mother coming to find it.  He said that they often do return, and that he could set a trap for the mother, but could not guarantee that it would work. Alternatively, he said that we could put the baby in the trap (he assured me that the baby was quite healthy and would be fine for another day) to entice the mother to come back.  So we tried this option overnight but, unfortunately, the mother did not return.  So at least the baby was rescued and will eventually be returned to the wild.
All in all, it cost $225 for him to make two trips to my house and set the traps. The cost seemed quite reasonable for the services performed.  Jeremy is definitely a pleasure to do business with, and I would not hesitate for a moment to hire him again if needed.

He was great. We haven't been bothered by skunks since we implemented his suggestions.  He showed us how to capture them, he took them away, and showed us how to prepare the property so they wouldn't come back.

My call was returned within 30 minutes of placing my call.  The provider was very up front saying if the possum could be snagged he could do it today.  He told me it would be about 2 hours until he could arrive.  He called to let me know he was running behind schedule and then again right before he arrived.  He quickly removed the possum, cleaned out the nest, and then fixed the screening over the vents.  I appreciated that he made sure the vents were done correctly and redid one vent as he was not satisfied with how it looked.  He was very professional, gave me prices over the phone before he came out, and left everything neat and tidy.  I would use this provider again and highly recommend him.

We caught three raccoons and two possums over the course of about two weeks. Damage to the lawn has stopped, so we are satisfied with the service. Jeremy was friendly, knowledgable, and punctual. Highly recommend Jeremy.

Jeremy was prompt, friendly, and professional.  He took care of everything efficiently and took the extra time to check our basement for any other ways that animals could get it.

Went smoothly, just as he said it would.  Even set up protocol for future incidents, which came in handy today as well.