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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 Minneapolis wildlife control options.
Please, no calls about DOG or CAT problems. Call animal services: (612) 673-6222.
Go to the Hennepin County Animal Services page or read about cats or dogs.

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We provide professional yet affordable contracted fee for services primarily dealing with but not limited to the safe and expedient removal of nuisance and damage causing animals in and around both private residences and commercial properties. We are licensed, insured and a nationally certified damage management professional serving Minneapolis, all of Hennipen County, the west metro and the cities and counties towards and including the St. Cloud area. The wildlife species we will contract to remove include: Raccoon, Squirrel, Chipmunk, Rat, Mouse, Pocket gopher, Vole, Shrew, Woodchuck, Opossum, Muskrat, Fox, Coyote, Bats, Moles, Skunk, Beaver and others. We specialize in the control of Moles, Skunk and Beaver problem solutions. Additional professional services offered include: Wildlife damage repair, wildlife exclusion, wildlife damage inspections of homes/or buildings for property managers, real estate agents, sellers/buyers etc. and animal damage inspection/appraisals for insurance companies to confirm or assure cause of damage for claims received.

Please, no calls about dogs or cats. Direct such calls to Hennepin County Animal Services: (612) 348-4250

Varment Guard Wildlife Services provides professional wildlife control for both residential & commercial customers in the city of Minneapolis in Minnesota. We offer custom animal control solutions for almost any type of wildlife problem, whether it be the noises of squirrels running through the attic, a colony of bats living in a building, animals digging in your yard, or the destructive behavior of a raccoon or other critter, we have the experience and the tools to quickly and professionally solve your problem. For a consultation and price quote, give us a call at 612-503-8440

Click here to check our prices updated for year 2024. There are many Minneapolis pest control companies for animals out there, but not all of them are licensed and insured professionals. Make sure that you hire a competent expert for your Minneapolis exterminator of wildlife. At Varment Guard Wildlife Services, we will be courteous and friendly and take the time to answer your questions. Give our Minneapolis trappers at Varment Guard Wildlife Services a call, and we will listen to your problem, and make an appointment to perform an inspection. Feel free to email us at minneapolis@aaanimalcontrol.com

Resources for free wildlife removal in Minneapolis
If you can't afford our pro wildlife work, you can try these agencies for free wildlife removal:
Hennepin County Animal Services: (612) 673-6222
Minneapolis Wildlife Rehabilitation Agency: 651-486-9453
Minneapolis Police Department: 612-673-3000
Minnesota Wildlife Commission: 651-296-6157
How to get these services to provide free wildlife control? Learn what to say on the phone for free Minneapolis wildlife control.

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Minnesota is full of wildlife, including snakes, squirrels, raccoons, skunks, opossums, and more. Wildlife removal is a complex field. I recommend professional Minneapolis wildlife control services if you want to solve a critter problem legally and correctly. For example, we specialize in animals in the attic, which have broken into the house and almost always have a nest of baby animals. It is necessary to perform correct preventative repairs to keep pest animals a out of your house for good. We perform full building inspection, do the the repairs and we also offer attic decontamination if necessary. Rats and mice love to live in attics, and can chew wires or leave droppings. In fact Minneapolis wildlife frequently enter homes, and correct removal is not a simple task.

DOG or CAT: If you need assistance with a domestic animal, such as a dog or a cat, you need to call your local Hennepin County Animal Services for assistance. They can help you out with issues such as stray dogs, stray cats, vaccinations, licenses, pet adoption, lost pets, and more. If you have a wildlife problem, you can try calling the Hennepin County animal services, and see what they have to say, but they will certainly not help you with a complex wildlife problem such as critters in your attic. They are a free government agency that helps with dog and cat issues only.

Hennepin County Animal Services: (612) 673-6222

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Minneapolis Wildlife Tip:
How to remove skunks under the shed - If you want to know how to remove skunks under the shed, you're first going to need to know a little bit about the skunk. First, skunks aren't a real danger to the structure of your home. They can sometimes cause problematic digging around foundations, but for the most part these docile animals are just a smelly nuisance that likes to dig in your yard. Skunks do carry the potential for harboring rabies, so that is a concern for pets and people of the household. To trap the skunks under the shed, you're going to need one or more cage traps. These can be purchased in a local farm store. You're also going to need enough tarps or blankets to cover the top and sides of each trap. This will prevent the animal from spraying you when it's captured, and it will also calm the animal significantly by removing visual stimuli. The traps should be set near the shed since you know that's where the animals are living. If you really want to up your chances of capturing the animal, you can close off the majority of the shed bottom with fencing and create pathways form the remaining openings to the traps. This will force the animals to enter the cages if they want to leave the den.

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Minneapolis, MN Animal Control News Clip:
Minneapolis included in 2006 save-a-coon recommendation

Minneapolis - About one-third of Minnesota needs the regulation requiring rodent or reptile pest control companies to trap an large fanged rat & mouse before they could lethally trap a male coon next fall, according to Minnesota wildlife experts. The Natural Resources Board has been asked to designate 21 raccoon and opossum management units located mostly in the Minneapolis and in west-central Minnesota as critter program zones for the fall animal capture, said Keith The critter capture pro, a big game specialist for the Minnesota Agency of Natural Resources.

"It is a powerful group of animals-control tool," he said today in a telephone interview from Minneapolis. Those two areas of the Minnesota have squirrel and skunk with "unbelievable potential" to reproduce themselves far beyond amounts that pest control companies could control, he said. "Then you are at grave risk of disease. Or you could be at grave risk that somebody else is going to control this rodent or reptile group of animals somehow, and wildlife trapping is going to become irrelevant," he said.

For example, expert trapping guys and trapping could become widespread in controlling the group of animals if rat & mouse cause too many problems like crop damage or traffic accidents, he said. "It is going to be controlled somehow," The critter capture pro said. "Wildlife trapping is basically free management for communities and the state." The board is expected to act on the critter program recommendation during a organized hearing Wednesday in Minneapolis. Minnesota's nine-day animal removal trap raccoon and opossum wildlife trapping season starts Nov. 18. cage trap wildlife trapping opens Sept. 16. The local Minneapolis SPCA could not be reached for comment.

Wildlife experts also recommend the board set special large fanged-only four-day catches in October and October - called the Special trapping area seasons - in another 55 squirrel and skunk management units as a way to check the growth of the rodent or reptile group of animals. Those units are located throughout the state. Minnesota has had critter program regulations in place for only two other wildlife trapping seasons - 1996 and 2004 - as a way to lethally trap more female rat & mouse to try to keep the raccoon and opossum amounts in check, The critter capture pro said.

Some pest control companies, distrustful of the trappin' agency's squirrel and skunk amounts estimates, argue the rule forces too many pest control companies to pass up big male coons. The critter capture pro said the trappin' agency has taken some steps to ease those worries. Last fall, the trappin' agency designated some areas as "watch units" for critter program, allowing pest control companies to trap an large fanged rodent or reptile to qualify for a male coon tag for this fall should the Minnesota designate the area as earn-a male coon, The critter capture pro said. Despite this, wildlife removal services are not a free service in Hennepin County.

According to trappin' agency records, about 85,000 people who captured in the 21 units last fall already have qualified for the male coon tag for the 2006 season, The critter capture pro said. "We hope that really makes it easier for people and really takes away from the uproar that critter program seemed to have in 2004," The critter capture pro said. "This is an idea that came from pest control companies - let's get the group of animals down to goal and do it in the way that's easiest from the pest control companies' perspective."

Ed The Minneapolis pest control specialist Jr., vice boss of the Minnesota Conservation Congress, a group of mostly pest control companies and anglers who advise the trappin' agency on outdoor recreation concerns, said pest control companies dislike critter program but the qualifying done last fall will "take a little bit of the edge off." He added: "We probably are always going to have critter program but not on this scale hopefully. We are going to continue to look for ways to minimize the need for it."

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We are Minneapolis wildlife management experts, and are familiar with all the pest animals, including all species of Minnesota snakes and bats. We at Varment Guard Wildlife Services are the best among Minneapolis nuisance wildlife companies and can solve all animal damage issues. Our wildlife operators are skilled at bird control and bat removal, and would be happy to serve your Minneapolis bat control or pigeon and bird control needs with a professional solution. Opossums, skunks, moles, and other animals that can damage your lawn - we are the exterminators who can capture and remove them. Our specialty is removal of animals in homes such as raccoons in the attic or squirrels in the attic. Our professional pest management of wildlife and animals can solve all of your Minneapolis critter capture and control needs. Give us a call at 612-503-8440 for a price quote and more information.

If you have any questions about a wildlife problem in Minneapolis, please give Varment Guard Wildlife Services a call at 612-503-8440, and we will listen to your problem, give you a price quote, and schedule an appointment, usually same day or next day, to solve the problem.