Masked Bandits of Cambridge

One of the largest nuisance animals, raccoons live throughout the United States and Canada. They are also commonly known as coons or masked bandits. The masked bandit is for the black “mask” covering their face and their habit of stealing from pet food bowls, garbage cans, and bird feeders and wherever else the opportunity to steal food exists.

A distinguishing feature of raccoons is the black “mask” on their faces and their bushy, ringed tail. Raccoon fur is normally gray, but it can also have a brown tint to it. The typical weight of raccoons varies according to their locations, normally ranging from 10 to 25 pounds, with larger raccoons in the North and smaller ones in the South. Natural predators of raccoons include wolves, coyotes, and owls. Humans also prey on raccoons, primarily for their fur.

Because raccoons are excellent climbers, they are often able to get into the attics of our homes, where they can cause extensive damage. Pet food left out is often what draws raccoons to a home to begin with. Raccoons have very nimble hands and they can often be found grasping pet food with both hands and dipping it into the water bowl before eating it.

Raccoon control is not something for the do-it-yourselfer. By knowing the biology, habits and patterns of raccoons, Wildlife Professionals are better prepared and trained to remove the animal for you. We offer a quality raccoon removal service.

Your raccoon expert to Adamsville, Adams Mills, Antrim, Baltic, Barlow, Barnesville, Batesville, Bealsville, Bellaire, Belle Valley, Belmont, Belpre, Bethesda, Birds Run, Birmingham, Blue Rock, Bolivar, Bowerstown, Bristol, Brookside, Brush Creek, Buckeyeville, Byesville, Cadiz, Caldwell, Center, Center Bend, Chandlersville, Chesterhill, Clarington, Claysville, Coschocton, Cumberland, Colerain, Conesville, Corning, Coshocton, Crooksville, Decaturville, Dennison, Derwent, Devola, Dexter City, Dillon Falls, Dover, Dresden, Dunham, Duncan Falls, East Richland, Elk, Fleming, Flushing, Frazeysburg, Freeport, Fultonham, Gaysport, Germano, Glenford, Goshen, Gnadenhutten, Grandview, Gratiot, Graysville, Hanover, Harrisville, Holloway, Hopedale, Jackson Special, Jerusalem, Jewett, Junction City, Keene, Kimbolton, Linton Mills, Londonberry, Lore City, Lower Salem, Ludlow, Macksburg, Malaga, Malta, Martins Ferry, McConnelsville, Mineral City, Moorefield, Mt. Ephrlam, Mt. Sterling, Nashport, Neffs, Nellie, New Athens, Newcomerstown, New Concord, New Lexington, New Matamoras, New Philadelphia, Newport, New Reading, New Rumley, New Straitsville, North Zanesville, Norwich, Old Washington, Parral, Pennsville, Philo, Piedmont, Plainfield, Pleasant City, Pleasant Grove, Philo, Port Washington, Powhatan Point, Rich Hill, Roseville, Roswell, Rush, Quaker City, Salesville, Sarahsville, Sego, Scio, Senecaville, Shadyside, Sharon, Shawnee, Somerset, South Olive, South Zanesville, St. Clairsville, Stafford, Stillhouse Run, Stockport, Stone Creek, Straitsville, Strasburg, Sugarcreek, Summerfield, Thornport, Thornville, Tiverton Center, Trinway, Uhrichsville, Upper Lowell, Warsaw, Watertown, West Bedford, West Lafayette, Wheeling Valley, Woodsfield, Ohio is A All Animal Control.

A raccoon expert is just a phone call away and can often assist with your Southeast, OH wildlife control needs the very same day. Call us at (740) 732-1080 to put an end to that annoying raccoon problem and control the damage wildlife causes.

Snakes of Southeast, OH

It’s now the middle of June, and summer is coming upon us fast. For snakes, as well as humans, early summer is one of the most active times of the year, especially when it comes to the time spent outdoors at night. Snakes will often wait until nighttime to come out due to the intense heat of the day, which also happens to be the same time humans are out enjoying other summertime activities such as catching lightning bugs and telling stories by the campfire.

Snakes don’t often cross most people's minds until they are surprised by the sight of one. The good news is that most snakes are non-venomous, and only a handful of people die from venomous snake bites every year in the U.S. Rattlesnakes have the most potent venom and cause the majority of the deaths.

If you do happen to spot a snake in your house or on your property, remember that the capture of snakes is not something for the average person. Wildlife Professionals have been trained in the quick identification of snakes. Unless you are a Wildlife Professional, treat all snake species as being venomous. Keep your distance and call a wildlife professional to handle the snake in your basement or garden.

A All Animal Control of Southeast, OH services the following cities Marietta, Adams Mills, Antrim, Baltic, Barlow, Barnesville, Batesville, Bealsville, Bellaire, Belle Valley, Belmont, Belpre, Bethesda, Birds Run, Birmingham, Blue Rock, Bolivar, Bowerstown, Bristol, Brookside, Brush Creek, Buckeyeville, Byesville, Cadiz, Caldwell, Center, Center Bend, Chandlersville, Chesterhill, Clarington, Claysville, Coschocton, Cumberland, Colerain, Conesville, Corning, Coshocton, Crooksville, Decaturville, Dennison, Derwent, Devola, Dexter City, Dillon Falls, Dover, Dresden, Dunham, Duncan Falls, East Richland, Elk, Fleming, Flushing, Frazeysburg, Freeport, Fultonham, Gaysport, Germano, Glenford, Goshen, Gnadenhutten, Grandview, Gratiot, Graysville, Hanover, Harrisville, Holloway, Hopedale, Jackson Special, Jerusalem, Jewett, Junction City, Keene, Kimbolton, Linton Mills, Londonberry, Lore City, Lower Salem, Ludlow, Macksburg, Malaga, Malta, Martins Ferry, McConnelsville, Mineral City, Moorefield, Mt. Ephrlam, Mt. Sterling, Nashport, Neffs, Nellie, New Athens, Newcomerstown, New Concord, New Lexington, New Matamoras, New Philadelphia, Newport, New Reading, New Rumley, New Straitsville, North Zanesville, Norwich, Old Washington, Parral, Pennsville, Philo, Piedmont, Plainfield, Pleasant City, Pleasant Grove, Philo, Port Washington, Powhatan Point, Rich Hill, Roseville, Roswell, Rush, Quaker City, Salesville, Sarahsville, Sego, Scio, Senecaville, Shadyside, Sharon, Shawnee, Somerset, South Olive, South Zanesville, St. Clairsville, Stafford, Stillhouse Run, Stockport, Stone Creek, Straitsville, Strasburg, Sugarcreek, Summerfield, Thornport, Thornville, Tiverton Center, Trinway, Uhrichsville, Upper Lowell, Warsaw, Watertown, West Bedford, West Lafayette, Wheeling Valley, Woodsfield, Ohio.

Don’t panic! Call your Snake Control and Removal Expert at (740) 732-1080.

Ohio Groundhog Removal

The largest ground squirrel commonly known as a woodchuck is a common nuisance in backyards everywhere. Also called groundhogs for their habits and appearance, especially in late summer when they've been packing on the pounds in preparation for a long cold winter. When startled or alarmed they can emit a shrill warning whistle, inspiring the nickname whistle pig. It has short legs, strong claws, and a stubby tail.

Groundhogs are covered with two coats of fur. The outside fur keeps water out and the inside fur keeps in body heat. Groundhogs weigh between 4 and 14 pounds, and live most of their lives underground. The fox, wildcats, coyotes and hawks are their main natural enemies.

Because of their ease of adaptation to human environments, our home becomes their home. Backyard landscapes provide attractive goods, such as vibrant flower garden, lush grass with delicious clover, vegetable gardens, and fruits from trees that groundhogs favor. Once a groundhog has found ample food source, it will look for a den site that is close by. Your home is the den site due to increased land development in groundhog inhabited areas, and the overpopulation of groundhogs does not help. Loose vents, storage sheds, low decks and porches are the most common den locations.

Groundhog control is not something for the do-it-yourselfer. By knowing the biology, habits and patterns of a skunk, Wildlife Professionals are better prepared and trained to remove the animal for you.

This is not just a job for the Wildlife Professional; it is a passion to help the person who has the wildlife conflict and the wildlife too.

Your experts in the Marietta, Cambridge, Zanesville and all of Southeast Ohio is A All Animal Control .

Call the Marietta, Cambridge, Zanesville and all of Southeast Ohio experts today at (740) 732-1080.

Beaver Control Southeast Ohio

Beaver Double-Take

I own a nuisance wildlife removal business in Ohio, and one of my commercial customers is a small village. The village reservoir is next to a fairly large creek that travels through bottomland before reaching the village.

This bottomland contains a rather high population of beaver. The beaver are fond of traveling up this creek, crawling over the bank, and setting up shop in the village reservoir. The beaver then promptly begin plugging the water plants intake pipes. This is usually when I get the call, and the village rightly expects me to solve the problem immediately.

Usually I get the call during spring, summer, or early fall. However, one particular call came in early December, during our deer gun season, and technically I was on a much needed vacation. This call also just happened to coincide with the day I was fortunate enough to take my biggest buck to date with a handgun.

Between the excitement of taking the deer and showing him off to my friends, I forgot my obligation to remove the beaver from the village reservoir. When it dawned on me that I hadn’t set up on the village’s beaver problem yet, it was a little after 4:15 pm. Now in this neck of the woods it becomes dark about 5:45 pm. The village is approximately 20 minutes from my home, so I had very little time to get sets in before dark. Needless to say I threw my beaver equipment together and took off.

Most of my beaver work takes place when there is open water. I use snares exclusively for open water work. As anyone who has trapped beaver knows, some of the best places to set up on beaver can be hard to reach.

Over the years I’ve developed a set that I use almost exclusively, and it allows me to set up in places that are easier to reach. When the majority of my nuisance calls involves working with clients, it pays to be clean, neat, and professional looking. This can be especially difficult after donning hip boots and struggling around in the mud, without wasting time running back home to shower and change clothes. By setting up in easier to reach areas, I avoid this. I often can set up by only wearing knee boots.

To make this set, I first choose an area that has good visibility from the beaver’s perspective. On a low bank no more than 20 inches high, I use a small shovel to cut a trench up the bank. I make this trench about as wide as what a beaver pullout would be, as this is what I’m trying to imitate. I hang a snare in this trench at the point where the water meets the trench.

Next I cut several 1 to 2 inch diameter sections of wood about a foot long from whatever the beaver are feeding on. I use my hatchet to shave bark from these pieces of wood, allowing the shavings to fall into the trench. I place these wood pieces at the top of the trench with the shaved areas facing the water to visually attract the swimming beaver’s attention. I then liberally rub these wood sections and the trench sides down to about 6 inches above the snare with beaver castor. These castors I collect from beaver I’ve caught at other locations.

I chop these castors into small pieces and place them in pill bottles and freeze. If the water at the set is not flowing I swish the piece of castor around in the water in front of the set. You can watch this oil slick of beaver castor spread out over the water. When finished, this set appears to a swimming beaver as a place where a strange beaver has repeatedly pulled out to feed.

It appeals to their sight (shavings and peeled sticks), and their sense of smell (castor). I’ve heard that beaver in some areas don’t respond well to castor at certain times of the year. It works for me, and I’ve taken the entire population of eleven beaver, with four snare set locations in three nights, in one instance, while using only this set.

By the time I arrived at the reservoir I only had about 45 minutes of light left. I decided to try to get four sets in before dark. As I hurriedly made the last set it was completely dark. Figuring that there were only 2 beaver, I drove home confident I would have them in the morning.

The next morning I arrived at the break of day, so I could remove the beaver before they could be spied by the nearby residents. In this day, it’s often better to do your work discreetly. As I approached the first set, which just happened to be the last set I’d made the evening before, I noticed beaver tracks in the trench. I also noticed the snare was gone. For a second I thought the beaver had dove into the water on my approach, but there was no torn up area indicating a snared beaver. I often attach my snares with cable stakes and a 4 foot section of wire.

This seems to give the beaver room to move about and they seem to fight less. By placing the cable stake far from the water, I keep the beaver out of the water. Because of this, I immediately knew the beaver wasn’t in the water.

I looked across the water at two of my other sets. I could see a beaver sitting in one of them. After taking care of that beaver, I went to check my last set. As I approached the last set I heard a splash, and was rather surprised as I had thought there would only be two beaver. Obviously this was the second beaver, and I still had one around here with a snare and 4 foot of wire attached. As I pulled the beaver out of the water I noticed there was a second snare with 4 foot of wire attached. Yep, you guessed it, this was my missing beaver, snare and all. I’d caught this beaver twice in one night!
Should you need help with a beaver problem in Southeast Ohio, Zanesville or Cambridge or in these counties:Belmont, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry & Tuscarawas, OH, visit my webpage at A All Animal Control.

Bat Control Southeast Ohio

Bats in Southeast OH in cities such as Cambridge and Zanesville are numerous.

Signs of bats to look for in your home are rub marks such as in this picture with the brown marking on the louver vent.

Other signs are mouse like droppings outside the home or on the windows or siding. You may also smell a musty odor in the home if bat guano has built up in the attic. Bats can produce a tremendous amount of waste over the years and the odor builds as the waste grows.

Bat guano can be a source of disease if disturbed. Bats are known rabies carriers and should not be handled. Often you will find a bat on the ground and it could have rabies. Do not pick it up! Children are bit when picking up a bat and often contract the rabies virus this way.

If your home or business has been overtaken by bats, call a professional to evaluate the problem and offer a resolution. Your Wildlife Management Professional in Southeast Ohio is A All Animal Control. We cover all of the following counties in Southeast Ohio: Belmont, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry & Tuscarawas, OH.

Attic Basement Crawlspace Cleaning and Restoration

When your Cambridge/Zanesville, OH home has been invaded by nuisance wildlife there is often animal waste left behind. This animal waste can be a source of disease and infection and must be removed to protect your family. Animal waste can also attract insects, parasites and other wildlife as well as create a bad odor that permeates the home.

Our attic restoration and cleanout professionals will decontaminate the biohazards and hand remove or vacuum out the areas. Bat guano or droppings will often cover an attic space and create a health hazard by the histoplasmosis that bat guano can carry.

This animal waste must be sterilized, removed and the area deodorized through fogging and the use of a hand sprayer. This process is necessary to eliminate the parasites and germs that animal waste carries. It will also remove that terrible smell that animal waste creates.

New insulation can also be added to your attic when the old contaminated insulation has been removed. We do not simply cover your contaminated insulation with new insulation. We remove the old insulation and blow or roll in new insulation to meet current code requirements.

Once this process is complete, your attic, basement or crawlspace will be clean, sanitized and have a fresh odor.
Our wildlife inspectors will photograph any animal damage or waste and present you with a comprehensive plan to restore your attic, basement or crawlspace to its original waste-free condition. All of their work is fully guaranteed for your protection.

Your Attic, Basement & Crawlspace Cleaning and Restoration Expert is A All Animal Control

Squirrel Control and removal Cambridge and Zanesville,OH

Squirrel control and removal is one of our specialties at A All Animal Control. You have been living with this squirrel long enough and need a professional to quickly and effectively remove it!

Squirrel control is not something for the do-it-yourselfer. By knowing the biology, habits and patterns of a squirrel, Wildlife Professionals are better prepared and trained to remove the animal for you. Times of year are important and knowing if there are babies is extremely important. Why? Because you don’t want to leave any babies that might not be able leave the den.

By knowing this information, our control processes take less time and actually save you money. Professionals are prepared to control any wildlife conflict through good training, equipment and a high motivation to work with wildlife.

This is not just a job for the Wildlife Professional; it is a passion to help the person who has the wildlife conflict and the wildlife too.

Contact your local professionals at A All Animal Control today and let us help you restore your home, business or property to its original former peaceful existence as well as your sanity!