Wildlife Removal & Control Services

Awesome Critter Gitters owner Jim Sheffield says bats are nothing to take lightly. This year alone the St. Joseph County Humane Society reported three bats that tested positive for rabies. One of these cases was reported this week in a Mishawaka home in the Central Park area.

Bats are very dangerous. Probably the common danger is of course them touching you, but the second most common danger I feel is people wanting to release bats. Most people tell us they've had bats inside their home before. The first thing they do is open the doors, turn on the lights and either go outside or hide in a room with the door shut. Soon they reenter the home, no longer see the bat, and assume it flew out. We suggest keeping the doors shut and determining if the bat touched anyone in the home or if a pet touched the bat. Then the bat should be caught and released if there was no contact with human or pet. This way you know for sure the bat was put out of the house and not just hiding, to be mistaken for another bat a day or two later.

Yes, you can still become exposed to the rabies virus even if a bat only touches you so stay clear and call the professional bat service before attempting to remove bats yourself.

If the bat has touched someone or a pet in your home, the pet should be contained and then taken to the local county health department for a rabies test.

Your chances of being bit by a bat are pretty much if you are messing with it, you find an animal down on the ground or find a place that they are roosting and disturb them then the bat is going to bite you.

Now even though Halloween is right around the corner and your kids are safe from ghouls and goblins, you may will want to keep them far away from bats.

We Recently Found ourselves in a local downtown park with a coyote problem. Coyotes will take your pets right off the leash.

Jim Scheffield has decades of trapping experience. He is also the owner of Awesome Critter Gitters based in Niles.

The city has asked Scheffield to capture the coyotes alive, and they would like him to use a cage to do so.

But that may not be so easy. Scheffield explains that coyotes are often too smart to fall for a cage trap. “The coyotes have walked up to them, walked around them,” said Scheffield. “They don’t like to be crowded, so it’s really hard to get them inside that cage.”

Scheffield would like to use a non-lethal version of a snare trap called a collarum. The collarum throws a loop over the head of the animal and then draws the cable around the neck of the animal.

Unlike other snares though, the collarum has a safety feature that prevents animals from tightening the cable too much and harming themselves. The relaxing locking mechanism holds the cable in place as if the trapped animal was on a leash.

Scheffield would also like to place his traps in more strategic areas, but he has run into problems with getting permission from land owners to do so.

Currently Scheffield estimates one coyote is frequently hunting along the park’s edge. But he warns, winter is coming and that can make for hungry coyotes. “There’s going to be more. There’s never one coyote. There’s always more behind it,” said Scheffield.

Scheffield offered some tips for if you find yourself crossing paths with a coyote and have a small pet in danger.

First, pick your pet up. Coyotes are deceivingly fast and will snatch a small dog or cat quickly if given the chance.

Second, do not make eye contact with the animal yet and don’t try to run away. If the coyote senses your fear, it may become brave enough to try and take your pet out of your arms.

Third, quickly find something big and heavy to swing at the coyote, only then should you turn to face it.

Finally, once armed, charge the coyote aggressively. Screaming and yelling are encouraged, and don’t stop advancing until the coyote is gone.

Scheffield advised that if faced with more than one coyote, most of the same steps should be followed. However, he suggests also finding an escape route that will allow you to climb out of the coyote’s reach.

Facing several coyotes at once can be an intimidating prospect warned Scheffield. The first step to staying safe is keeping calm.

 Southwest Michigan and Northwest Indiana Wildlife Animal Trappers

 Squirrel, Raccoon, Bats, Skunk, Chipmunks, Woodchuck, Birds Mice, Rats, Rodents, Muskrat, Coyote, Beaver, Opossum Snakes, Moles, Snapping turtle, etc.

 Awesome Critter Gitters is a professional animal removal and control company. We would like to offer some insight on Wildlife Removal, Animal Control Services and the degree of quality you can expect from our professionals. We will inspect your home, business or property and inform you of factors drawing the unwanted pest, which novice pest control companies never consider.  Then we’ll humanely remove all the animals; eliminate the odor and repair the damaged entry points better than original with Guaranteed Barriers and Exclusions. Our Bat Guano Removal Service can safely handle all types of wildlife contamination. If needed, we offer complete attic restoration with state of the art Hepa filtered equipment for your family’s safety.

We are Licensed and Insured in Michigan and Indiana. Member: of the National Wildlife Control Operators Association. Dealer Installer: of Copperfield Chimney-Homesaver Stainless Lifetime Warranty caps and chimney repair accessories. We’re Bird Barrier and Bird-B-Gone Certified bird control Specialist specializing in pigeon control and their bio hazard feces clean up.   

Animal noise in the attic or animals digging under a deck or porch is usually the first signs that wildlife is sharing your home. Unfortunately many people turn to the Internet for some “How to remove raccoon, woodchucks, bats” tips. Do it yourselves and inexperienced companies make animals act unnaturally, wary and trap shy. If poison powders, moth balls, coyote urine, strobe lights, or noise makers worked there would be no control services. They scare the animals deeper inside the attic or seal them inside the home. We’re called to remove the animals after many of their failed attempts. Other companies offer prices to trap animals below our comprehensive wildlife removal but offer no control services or guarantees.

Why take a chance with your family, home, business or your own safety. Let Awesome Critter Gitters Wildlife Removal and Control Experts Guarantee to remove the animals and keep them out. 

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