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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 Urbandale wildlife control options.
Please, no calls about DOG or CAT problems. Call animal services: 515-286-3333.

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Southern Iowa Critter Catcher provides professional wildlife control for both residential & commercial customers in the city of Urbandale in Iowa. 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 515-204-2864

Click here to check our prices updated for year 2024. There are many Urbandale 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 Urbandale exterminator of wildlife. At Southern Iowa Critter Catcher, we will be courteous and friendly and take the time to answer your questions. Give our Urbandale trappers at Southern Iowa Critter Catcher a call, and we will listen to your problem, and make an appointment to perform an inspection. Feel free to email us at urbandale@aaanimalcontrol.com

Resources for free wildlife removal in Urbandale
If you can't afford our pro wildlife work, you can try these agencies for free wildlife removal:
Polk County Animal Services: 515-286-3333
Iowa Wildlife Commission: 515-725-8200
Urbandale Police Department: 515-278-3938

These agencies will only help with certain types of wildlife problems, and they are not always consistent. If you want a high quality of help done right, call our company.

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Iowa is full of wildlife, including snakes, squirrels, raccoons, skunks, opossums, and more. Wildlife removal is a complex field. I recommend professional Urbandale 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. Some Urbandale animals 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 Polk County Animal Control 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 Polk County animal control, 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.

Polk County Animal Services: 515-286-3333

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Urbandale Wildlife Tip:

Are mothballs and ammonia any good at repelling raccoons?

Buy any of your locally available critter repellents, and chances are one of the ingredients mentioned right at the top are naphthalene, the stuff that's used in mothballs, and ammonia (and interestingly coyote urine).

In fact, mothballs and ammonia are widely renowned for their repellent properties, which is why they are highly recommended to help remove raccoons from your attic. Here's the thing though. Are they as effective as everyone claims them to be?

The logic behind using them

In the case of raccoons, the idea is pretty simple actually. Spray the attic with ample ammonia, introduce a sizeable number of mothballs into such a tight space, and you've got yourself a foul-smelling, possibly toxic, space that no animal in their right mind would want to live in, least of all one with kids (which is probably the case for any raccoon taking up board in your attic). Makes sense, right?

Why the logic is flawed

The reason using mothballs and ammonia fails primarily due to one big flaw in our reasoning: we ASSUME raccoons can't put up with the smell. When you look at the situation from a mother raccoon's perspective, you realize that when choosing whether to take her children out of the safety of the attic into the wild unknown or to put up with a little smell, you can easily see why the mother won't be inclined to leave. Which for you means all your work and money invested in the fabled mothball and ammonia cure would go down the drain.

Health hazards

If something is widely regarded as an insecticide (translated literally to poison), it's obvious using something like naphthalene is going to create a lot of trouble for you, especially in the health department. Regular inhalation of the insecticide isn't a good thing, which is why dousing an area with a large number of mothballs in your home isn't a great idea.

While ammonia, on the other hand, may not prove to be that big of a threat to your health, it is still quite harmful to the environment and other creatures around your home, meaning you should think twice before you decide to use it.

What you can use instead

As far as repellents to drive raccoons out of your attic go, your best bet is using raccoon eviction fluid. Made exceptionally potent by the fact that mother raccoons KNOW a male raccoon won't hesitate to kill her babies, this mixture of male raccoon urine and secretions is bound to drive a mother raccoon paranoid and take her babies away from the place where a male raccoon has "apparently marked his territory", if you catch my drift.

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We are Urbandale wildlife management experts, and are familiar with all the pest animals, including all species of Iowa snakes and bats. We at Southern Iowa Critter Catcher are the best among Urbandale 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 Urbandale 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 Urbandale critter capture and control needs. Give us a call at 515-204-2864 for a price quote and more information.

If you have any questions about a wildlife problem in Urbandale, or wildlife removal in Polk County, please give Southern Iowa Critter Catcher a call at 515-204-2864, 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.