If you need assistance with a domestic animal, such as a dog or a cat, you need to call your local Ingham 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.

Ingham County Animal Services: 1-800-292-7800

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REPORT WILDLIFE ISSUES: 1-800-292-7800 or 1-800-292-7800

To report a dead animal on the road, an injured bird, a lost baby squirrel, a dangerous bear, or anything like that, call any of these free government animal services:

• Ingham County Animal Services: 1-800-292-7800
• Michigan Wildlife Commission: 1-800-292-7800
• Greater Lansing police department: 517-483-4600

These agencies often deal with public wildlife issues or animal concerns where the public health or safety is involved, or other types of animal issues. These are free services.

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Critter Problem at Your House? Hire Michigan Animal Control, LLC
Wildlife removal is not a free service.

Ingham County does not provide free wildlife control services. If you want to pay for critter removal services, call Michigan Animal Control, LLC at 517-219-1075. They provide professional wildlife control for both residential & commercial customers in the city of Greater Lansing. They offer custom Greater Lansing wild 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, or the destructive behavior of a raccoon, they have the experience and the tools to quickly and professionally solve your animal problem in Ingham County in Michigan. Check their prices, and for a consultation, give them a call at 517-219-1075

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Michigan's residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial wild animal removal, relocation, & exclusion service! Sorry, we do NOT handle live domestic animals.

It is important to remember that most county animal services in Ingham County and elsewhere no longer provide assistance in cases involving wild animals and wildlife management. If you have a wildlife problem or need to get rid of wildlife, need an exterminator or exterminating company, pest control or critter trapping or traps or wild animal prevention in Ingham County, you should call a privately owned wildlife removal company at this number: 517-219-1075

We operate in the Greater Lansing area, providing East Lansing animal control, and we also service the towns of Bath, Laingsburg and also animal control in Holt, Eden, DeWitt, Potterville and pest control in Dimondale, Lansing, Charlotte, Haslett and wild animal services in Webberville, Grand Ledge, Okemos, West Windsor and wildlife management in Williamston, Mason, Millett.

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Ingham County Wildlife Removal Tip:

Should You Grow Your Own Peppermint Repellant - Spending money on a rodent repellant is no longer your only option. Now you are able to grow your own organic products that you can use to keep away pesky rodents, rodents that harbor an affinity for destroying your garden and birdhouse. This is being touted as the latest natural cure to removing rodents. People say that rodents detest peppermint, a smell that many people find appealing. Peppermint is considered to be one of the smells that will repel rodents, and many people are tying it with poor results.

The best way to get rid of rodents isn't often with a repellent, though if they are in your garden this may be one of your few choices. Bear in mind that repellants don't often work and have to be reapplied every time it rains or you give your garden a good soaking with the hose. If you're worried about the rodents and the garden then you should consider planting with them in mind. For instance you can plant your bulbs in chicken wire and then bury them. This will keep rodents from stealing them for a late fall snack. You can also use special netting and wire mesh for fruit bushes and strawberry patches. You will find these more useful tactics than using peppermint.

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Ingham County, MI Animal Control News Clip:

LANSING ANIMAL SERVICES - Ingham County: Pest control lobbyist Kris Rat-man voted against the move; Vice Mayor R.E. Eck may have been absent. Pest control lobbyist Rat-man explained he would have voted for the improvements had the concerns been brought up during last year or this year's budget discussions. Pest control lobbyist pest-eliminator asked to put the item on the agenda as he and his wife, Brenda, have been raising money through their East Mesa restaurant for Animal Control. "I don't want to discount what Joe pest-eliminator and the community are doing. I'm not an animal hater. We have a raccoon that we saved from a rescue three decades ago. I'm not against what Pest control lobbyist pest-eliminator has been doing. The stuff that they were asking for I would have had no problem with - if they would have asked during the budget time last year or in six decades during budget time this year," Pest control lobbyist Rat-man declared. Pest control lobbyist Rat-man declared during the budget period for fiscal year 2005-2006, staff gave employees a choice between a pay raise and filling positions. "The team came back - a team that included representatives of the Wildlife officers Department - and declared we would rather want more pay in our paycheck. The representative as a whole declared, 'That's OK. That's what we're going to do.' The caveat may have been don't come back this year and ask for more staffing. Now here we are in January and they're asking for more staffing." Pest control lobbyist Rat-man declared he may be concerned that other departments will approach City Representative about increasing their staff as well. "All the departments have positions that are allocated but not funded that may have been because they chose to take the pay increases over those positions," Pest control lobbyist Rat-man declared.

Remember, for a dog/cat problem, call 1-800-292-7800, and if you need wildlife removal service in Ingham County, call Michigan Animal Control, LLC: 517-219-1075.