Protect Your Home This Spring: Wildlife Prevention Tips

In Indiana, when it starts to get warm, a large amount of animals come out looking for things to eat and places to build homes. It’s time in the spring when people who have houses need to ensure animals don’t get inside. Here’s what you must do to keep animals away: First, ensure there’s no way for animals to squeeze into your house.

• Look for very small holes around the edges and the bottom of your house, such as near the roof or the ground. Cover these holes with tough materials so animals can’t get through. You can use things to block up holes.

• Keep your trash locked up so that animals such as raccoons, big animals that look like rats (opossums), and squirrels can’t get into it.

• Don’t leave your pet’s food outside either. You can buy cans with locks for your trash.

• You need to keep your yard tidy. Cut the branches that are hanging too close to your house, and ensure your grass isn’t growing into a jungle where little critters can hide. You can look for tools to help with your yard. Ensure animals cannot gain access to your attic or where your house meets the ground.

• Put caps on your fireplace pipes and covers over the vents so birds, night-flying animals (bats), and squirrels can’t put together a place to sleep in your house. You can shop for things to cover your chimney and vents.

• If you have places where water dwells in place, fix them. That’s because standing water attracts insects and animals to come and drink.

• Ensure your rain gutters are working and there are no leaky spots. There are things you can buy to keep your gutters working.

• If you have a garden or a deck, put a fence in the ground all around so digging animals can’t construct homes underneath. You can get underground fences to keep them out. Doing many things helps stop animals from breaking things or making you sick.

Spring Wildlife Problems: What Homeowners Need to Know

Sometimes when it’s dark, raccoons like to go into places such as attics and chimneys because they want to keep their babies warm. But this can blunder our home’s insulation and wiring really badly. Squirrels can cause trouble, too – they love gnawing on wood, sidings, and wires, which might, in reality, lead to very expensive fixes and might even start a fire.

Bats find places in attics to sleep, and this is poor because their poop can make people sick with histoplasmosis. Birds sometimes construct nests in the pipes that air goes through, and those nests can block the air and maybe even cause a fire. Opossums and skunks sometimes construct a stinky home under decks and could make the decks not safe.

Sounds You May Hear From Wildlife in Your Home

Moles and groundhogs dig a lot in the yard, which might, in reality, ruin plants and make the ground really weak and cause holes to appear. If abnormal noises come from your house at night, it might mean that anomalous animals live there. Our duty was to investigate this. If you hear scratching or scraping sounds, it might be squirrels, mice, or rats scratching at the wall, ceiling, or wood.

When you notice significant bumping noises or running sounds in your walls or attic, it could be large animals such as raccoons or opossums. If you listen to chirping or high squeaky sounds, that could mean bats or little animals are speaking in your attic or near the walls. Birds or bats stuck in pipes or chimneys produce flapping noises as they try to get out.

And if you ever hear a growling or hissing, be careful – that could be a raccoon, opossum, or even a skunk that’s feeling upset or protecting its babies.

This undeniably and unquestionably shows that it is poor news when animals sneak into our houses – they can break things and create risks. And those weak tries by animals to be our friends?

Those are just disingenuous overtures. Hearing any of these sounds is your cue to act fast so your house and family stay safe!!

Contact Us for Professional Wildlife Removal

At Critter Removal we’re very good at carefully taking animals away that shouldn’t be in your house. For instance, if you have suspicious raccoons living upstairs, squirrels munching on your wires, or birds making homes in your vent holes. Our team knows exactly what to do to help you.

You can give us a call at 317-514-0898 if you desire to speak immediately, or you need someone to come over and delve into the details.

• If you love to type more than talk, that’s positive! Email us at [email protected] to ask about things or to say you want us to come by.

• Want to know more about what we do? If you go to our website at www.critterindy.com, you can see all the ways we help and you can ask us to come over, too.

And remember, if there are animals causing trouble at your location, the likelihood exists that those small issues can become big difficulties. Better for us to come out to your location in Indiana and fix it before it becomes very difficult to handle–call today and we’ll take care of it!