Keeping your home clean and secure often starts with something as simple as your garbage bins. When improperly maintained, they can attract animals like mice, leading to potential health concerns and household damage. Securing your bins is an easy way to prevent these problems, saving you time and stress in the long run. Effective strategies… Continue reading
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What Materials Around Your Barrie Home May Be Attracting Birds?
If birds are hanging around your yard too often, you might be unknowingly providing them with the perfect materials for their nests. Birds use everything from twigs and leaves to scraps left behind to build sturdy homes, and most backyards have plenty of these resources. While it’s nice to hear birds chirping, nests built near… Continue reading
How Can Barrie Homeowners Prevent Bat Infestations in their Attics
Do you have bats in your attic? Discover how you can prevent them from taking over your Barrie home’s attic and protect both your property and these unique creatures. They are naturally drawn to attics as they provide warmth, quietness, and a safe sanctuary away from predators. While bats play a vital role in our… Continue reading
Barrie Wildlife Control: How Raccoons Adapt to Urban Life
As urban populations continue to expand, wildlife must adapt to new environments and city-dwellers must learn how to coexist with these animals. One such adaptable species is the raccoon, a familiar and oftentimes dreaded sight to those living in Barrie. While they were once predominantly forest-dwellers, these intelligent animals have learned to thrive in cities,… Continue reading
Barrie Wildlife Removal: What You Need to Know About Rat Teeth
Rodents have many traits in common with other furry animals. With their big eyes and expressive faces, it is easy to see why some people even keep rodents as pets. However, the similarities between household pets and rodents end when you consider what is inside a rat’s mouth. A rat’s teeth are different from those… Continue reading
Barrie Wildlife Removal: What Does a Bat Infestation Sound Like?
Humane bat removal is essential to the proper handling and safe treatment of nature’s pest control. The animals are unique and play a pivotal role in the ecosystem. That said, it is difficult to appreciate the animals if they overtake your home. A bat infestation can range from 20 to several hundred bats, depending on… Continue reading
Barrie Wildlife Removal: How to Get Rid of Raccoons in Your Shed?
Raccoons are notorious for using makeshift den sites. The critters often take over abandoned dens, sleep in hollowed-out trees, or take advantage of manufactured structures like a backyard shed. If you have a raccoon in your shed, do not attempt DIY removal; contact raccoon removal in Barrie. Depending on the time of year, the raccoon… Continue reading
Keeping Squirrels Away From Your Home
Squirrels become very active in the spring and fall. The animals’ behaviour is entertaining most of the time, but it can become destructive at other times. When squirrels become so engrossed in mating, nesting, and storing food for the winter, experts in wildlife control in Barrie explain the animals will stop at almost nothing to find… Continue reading
How Can We Help With Humane Rat Removal Services in Barrie?
Nobody wants to think of rats setting up houses inside their homes. The common belief is that rats are attracted to unclean homes, but that just isn’t true. Rats seek out places that offer warmth, shelter and access to food. People’s houses can be ideal environments, even if they are spotless. Many companies offering services… Continue reading
Getting Rid of Skunk Smell in Barrie Homes
One of the things that makes skunk smell such a powerful defensive weapon is that it takes a long time to get rid of. It may persist for weeks after skunk removal takes place and resist many efforts to remove it. If you have recently had a skunk problem requiring wildlife control in Barrie, here… Continue reading
Barrie Wildlife Control: Are Raccoons Clean?
Raccoons are seen in almost every type of setting, including rural areas, suburban neighbourhoods and city streets. These critters have adapted so they can thrive in almost any environment. In their natural habitat, they can be very clean with their grooming and eating habits. Despite the fact that raccoons groom themselves well, it is not… Continue reading
3 Ways Squirrels Can Enter Your Barrie Home
If you have ever seen a squirrel hopping around from perch to perch, you know that it can be a pleasure to watch their acrobatic adventures. However, if you have ever had to deal with them around your home, you know that they can become a nuisance quickly. Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control offers squirrel removal… Continue reading
Barrie Wildlife Control: 3 Smells Raccoons Hate
Many of the calls for wildlife control in Barrie are in regard to raccoons. These mammals are clever, opportunistic, and adaptable. There are populations of urban and suburban raccoons that actually prefer living in human habitations so they can eat out of garbage cans, and take advantage of the warmth and safety provided by the… Continue reading
Barrie Wildlife Removal: Do Rats Hate Onions?
Raw onions can kill rats. While not a part of their regular diet, or a humane rat control technique, onions do have the ability to kill and temporarily deter rats. Learn more about the effects of onions and find more effective, humane strategies for removing rodents from your property with Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control. How… Continue reading
How Barrie Wildlife Control Removes Raccoons Under Your Deck?
Raccoons are an adorable yet troublesome addition to your home and can cause thousands of dollars of damage when allowed entry into human spaces. Because humans often mean bad things for raccoons, they tend to avoid areas where people are most common. For this reason, the areas under your deck are especially appealing. If you… Continue reading
How Fast Can Bats Reproduce?
There is a great deal of urban legend and myths surrounding bats, thanks to Hollywood and Halloween, but bats are not our enemy. In fact, they do a lot of good. Without them, crops would suffer from insect infestations or lack of pollination, and you’d have to fend off even more bug bites every summer.… Continue reading
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