When you have wild animals causing a nuisance on your property or causing damage inside your home, you need to get them out. You have three possible courses of action: hire a pest control company, attempt to manage the situation on your own, or hire a humane animal control company.
Hiring a pest control company may seem like the most cost-effective choice, but in the end, this option isn’t effective nor is it humane. Using DIY methods to get rid of animals often isn’t ethical either. Traps and rodenticides cause a lot of pain and suffering. Handling the situation on your own also leads to increased risks to your health and safety.
Let’s take these two poor options out of the equation and discuss the benefits of humane animal control.
1. No Harm Comes to the Animals
Though having raccoons, squirrels, mice, skunks, bats, or other wildlife in your home can certainly be annoying and frustrating, it’s important to see the innocence in the situation. These animals chose to make your house their home in order to stay warm, stay safe from predators, stay away from the elements, or raise their young.
They’re not trying to be destructive or dangerous. They’re partaking in natural animal behaviours in an urban world. Humans have encroached on their natural habitats. And they’ve had to find new places to live.
No harm should come to these animals—to mothers trying to protect their babies, to animals trying to stay warm during a cold winter, to wildlife trying to stay safe from predators.
Ethical and green animal control matters. Humane animal control ensures the nuisance is eliminated, without causing unnecessary stress, harm, or pain to the wild animals.
Humane animal control technicians don’t use snap traps or poisons to solve the problem. They don’t trap and relocate either, as this is usually dangerous to the animals. Rather, they use one-way doors that enable the animals to self-evict and find a new place to live.
2. No Harm Comes to the Ecosystem
Whether or not you consider them pests, wild animals are critical to biodiversity. They’re important to the ecosystem. Some animals, like bats, are endangered species and protected by law. Not only could harming or killing these animals be against the law in your area, but it can do significant harm to the ecosystem.
3. Solving the Problem for the Long Term
Killing an animal living in your home, under your deck, or in your shed won’t actually solve the problem in the long term. You’ve gotten rid of the animal, but you haven’t actually fixed the issue that allows the animal to enter in the first place. Soon enough, another animal will make its way into your home using the same entry points.
This is the main reason “cheap” pest control companies aren’t actually cheap—or effective. They only get rid of the short-term problem; they don’t get rid of the problem permanently. You’ll have to spend more money weeks or months down the line when the problem reoccurs.
A humane animal control company, on the other hand, ensures the problem is permanently solved the first time around. After humanely evicting the problem wildlife, its technicians will repair entry points as well as identify and seal up any other vulnerable areas that could become entry points in the future.
As you can see, a humane animal control company’s technicians will not only use the eviction methods required to safely and humanely remove problem wildlife from your home or property, but they will also take their services to the next level by ensuring no other animals can enter in the future. It’s the best choice.
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