Professional Knoxville Wildlife Removal Services

Unless you happen to see one in your home, the most obvious way to tell is through the sounds they make. When they’re in your attic or wall voids, they often make squeaking, scratching, hissing, chittering, and rustling sounds that are typically louder as night falls. Other types of signs include fresh or dried feces and dark urine stains from where the animals had previously been or gnaw marks on wood, walls, or insulation.

You may find places where the critters have built or are building nests and/or storing food and entry points where they can get in and out of your home: holes or cracks or places with loose siding. You could find smudge marks from where the animal traveled along walls or baseboards.

If wildlife are on your property but not currently in your home, you’ll often notice tipped-over garbage cans or hear noises coming from under your decking. There can be track or claw marks in the area (or, in the case of bats, wing marks), which may also be found indoors.

If you’ve got pets, they may become agitated or become quite interested in a particular part of your home. If you notice some of these signs or believe you have an unwanted pest presence in your home, contact Waynes Pest Control for our professional wildlife removal in Knoxville. We’ll safely, efficiently, and humanely take care of the problem for you.

First, some of the common critters that get into Tennessee homes include the following: squirrels, raccoons, bats, snakes, possums, birds, and rodents such as rats and mice. They’re attracted to places that provide them with shelter (which houses certainly do!) and food and water—in other words, what they need to survive and to reproduce (and, unfortunately, turn into large infestations). 

Reasons that wildlife are so unwanted in homes include the damage they can do to electrical wires, drywall, and more and the diseases they can carry and transmit. So, keeping them out is important for your home’s integrity and your family’s health and well-being.

Roofs are common entry points for many wild animals, and it can be surprising how small the hole needs to be for them to get inside and settle in. Torn siding and/or damaged shingles can be ideal for entry. When ceilings or drywall are in poor condition, the wildlife can sometimes gain entry into the main house from the attic—or, in some instances, they can chew through them. 

Also check around your windows and doors, around plumbing pipes and other utility lines coming into the house, and so forth. Once identified, the best way to prevent animals from using these entry points is to seal them up and continue to monitor them for any fresh signs of damage.

When you need professional help, just reach out to our Knoxville wildlife removal team to get them out and keep them out. Our thoroughly trained team knows how to safely and efficiently remove them from your house and prevent them from making an encore visit. Contact us!

Unfortunately, that’s unlikely. Mice and roof rats will seek out places where they can enjoy shelter, food, and water—and, as long as they continue to have access, they’ll continue to stay happily. 

They’ll build nests and reproduce quite rapidly, adding to your infestation and its associated troubles. According to a trusted veterinary source, male rats are able to impregnate females at the age of six to ten weeks with females able to become pregnant at eight to twelve weeks. The gestation period is about three weeks, with a litter size typically being eight to eighteen pups. Then, females are very quickly ready to carry another litter. So, it’s easy to see how a relatively small population can rapidly turn into a full infestation. 

To stop a rodent infestation in its tracks, contact Waynes for a free quote on our Knoxville wildlife removal services.

First, our professional technicians inspect your home for a wildlife presence using the latest technology and our cutting-edge expertise. Through this process, we’ll discover where critters are hiding as well as feeding and breeding. Then, we’ll electronically monitor this space for activity and create a personalized wildlife control plan for your situation that allows for safe removal.

That’s only part of the Knoxville wildlife control process, however. Next up is sealing entry points so they can’t come back in to cause more problems. Places we’ll inspect include roof/attic vents, eaves, soffits, fascia, and chimneys; windows and doors, including in the garage and other outbuildings; and crawl spaces, foundation vents, plumbing pipes, and utility openings. In addition, we’ll look for any other cracks and gaps, identify trees, shrubs, and so forth that could be contributing to the problem; and so on.

By using this combination approach of removal and prevention, our Knoxville wildlife removal professionals will help keep your home wildlife-free.

At Waynes Pest Control, we take a customized approach to each wildlife control situation we encounter. This means that we thoroughly inspect your home for animal presence to determine the type in your home; how large the population likely is and how entrenched in the house; and other factors. We then create a personalized Knoxville wildlife control plan for your situation, including electronic monitoring in areas where there’s evidence of wildlife presence; removal; and prevention techniques to keep them out going forward.

So, because each situation and each plan is unique, so is the pricing. To get a quote for your specific Knoxville wildlife removal scenario, just reach out. We’ll analyze the situation and explain the problems to you along with our tailored treatment plan for your home. Our professional technicians will also courteously answer all of your questions.