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How Do You Prevent Animal Wildlife Pests From Entering Your Home Or Business?

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How do I keep animal wildlife pests from entering my home or business?

Simple, Call Richmond and Charlottesville, VA Animal Removal and Wildlife Control at (434) 270-0488 or toll-free at (888) 893-1975

prevent animal wildlife pestsWe are often asked by our customers, “How do I keep animals from entering and causing damage to my home?” Many times animal pests enter Richmond, Virginia homes and businesses through weakened or damaged areas. These areas are often the result of storm damage, poor workmanship during construction or remodeling, or simple homeowner neglect of routine home maintenance.

To minimize the possibility of animals entering your Richmond or Charlottesville, VA home and causing further damage to your home’s attic, walls, roof, insulation, wiring, fascia, crawlspace, vents and soffit we recommend that homeowner’s perform an inspection of their home or business twice a year, once just before Spring when newborn animals are typically born, and once in the Fall when animals are looking for Winter denning sites.

By simply taking a pen and paper — or even better, a digital camera — Richmond and Charlottesville, VA home owner’s should examine the entire house and look for signs of loose or missing siding, peeling paint and damaged wood, loose fitting soffits and fascia, cracks in masonry, crawlspace access doors that are missing or will not close properly, and any other problems that animals can exploit to gain entry to your Richmond or Charlottesville Virginia home and cause additional damage. Also look for places where critters such as rats or mice could burrow under the siding or gnaw at the siding or foundation coating. Loose siding needs to be reattached before it rips free and pulls other pieces with it. Wood and masonry siding can be easily reattached and nailed in place; vinyl needs a special siding tool that pulls the lip on one panel over the piece below it to lock the pieces together. Rotting or damaged wood should be replaced. Peeling paint needs to be scraped off before you repaint. Because of the danger of falling, homeowners should stay off the roof and leave that type of work to the professionals. Roof work is too dangerous for novices to walk around up there. Instead, you should examine the roof from the ground using binoculars to look for missing, curling or damaged shingles. Also look for mold or fungus growing on shingles, which discolors them and lessens the life expectancy of the roof. Mold or fungus can be washed off, but, again, this is a job best left to professions.

If an animal damages or enters your Richmond or Charlottesville, Virginia home or business you should contact a professional animal wildlife removal company. Our Richmond and Charlottesville, VA Animal Removal and Wildlife Control Experts provide full-service nuisance animal control services throughout the Richmond and Charlottesville Virginia area. Wildlife Control operators can get rid of all types of nuisance wild animal including the removal and control of such animals as Birds, Bats, Bees, Squirrels, Groundhogs, Snakes, Mice, Skunks, Raccoons, Possums, and Rats. Virginia Professional Wildlife Removal Services, LLC is Virginia’s nuisance animal removal specialist. To schedule one of our Richmond or Charlottesville animal control technicians to inspect and remove wildlife pests from your home or business, call us at (434) 270-0488 or toll-free at (888) 893-1975 or visit us on the web at www.virginiaprofessionalwildliferemovalservices.com

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Be Careful! Snakes Like Easter Egg Hiding Places Too.

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Expert Snake Removal in Virginia

snake removalDo you have a snake in your yard? Is there a snake in your house? Have a fear of snakes, especially copperhead snakes? Call Virginia Snake Removal Experts at (434) 270-0488 or toll-free at (888) 893-1975. Beware of snakes when hiding eggs for Easter Egg hunts.

With the warm weather, snakes have been active, but they like to hide in shady or damp areas during the day.

Virginia Professional Wildlife Removal Services, LLC offers some safety tips to avoid incidents with snakes that could spoil the fun.

Don’t hide eggs on the ground where childern will have to reach where they can’t see. That includes under bushes, behind flower pots and rocks or even under pool toys.

Damp areas, such as under bushes with drip systems, are especially appealing to snakes.

If you do find a snake, walk away and don’t try to move it yourself. An estimated 80 to 90 percent of snake bites happen when homeowners try to deal with the snake themselves.

If bitten by a snake, call 911 and stay calm. Keep the bitten area still and elevated. Remove any jewelry or constructing items near the affected area in case of swelling.

Do not drive yourself to the hospital, use ice to cool the bite, cut open the wound and struck to suck out the venom or use a tourniquet.

At least 3 species of venomous snakes make their home in Virginia. However, far more non-venomous snakes are found in the state.

Virginia Professional Wildlife Removal Services, LLC also wants people to understand that killing a snake or other reptile isn’t the best way of dealing with these creatures.

“Wildlife plays an important role in our world. We can co-exist if we understand how.”

For a fee, Virginia Professional Wildlife Removal Services, LLC will remove a snake from your Richmond or Charlottesville property and/or conduct snake inspections. Contact us at (434) 270-0488 or toll-free at (888) 893-1975 for Central Virginia Snake Removal.

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Virginia Spends $300,000+ Annually For Beaver Removal

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Beaver Removal in Virginia

beaver removalThe Commonwealth of Virginia spends approximately $300,000+ a year for beaver removal. This service is paid for with your Virginia state tax dollars to a federal agency – the USDA-Wildlife Services Division, which is also funded by your tax dollars.

The Commonwealth of Virginia hires USDA via an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) without ever bidding this service out to see if the service could be provided cheaper by a private company. Don’t you think our elected officials, both federal and state, should be more responsible when spending our tax dollars? I do!

I wrote both my federal and state elected representatives in Virginia about this problem. Most politicians never responded to my concerns; the rest sent me a form letter. If you feel this practice by our politicians is unacceptable, contact your elected officials for Virginia today!

We provide beaver trapping, beaver control, beaver capture, beaver management and beaver removal for the Richmond and Charlottesville areas. Contact Virginia Professional Wildlife Removal Services, LLC at (434) 270-0488 or toll-free at (888) 893-1975 for all of your animal removal and pest control needs including bats, beavers, birds, flying squirrels, foxes, mice, moles, groundhogs, opossums, raccoons, rats, skunks, snakes, squirrels, voles and more.

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Beaver Contaminate Water Supply With Giardia | Virginia

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Beaver Cause Local Health Concern

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beaverAlaska 03/27/11 newsminer.com: by Dan Joling – (Excerpt) Inupiat Eskimo villagers in the Chukchi Sea village of Kivalina rely on wild animals to survive, but a recent arrival associated with climate warming is causing health concerns. Beavers have colonized the Wulik River, Kivalina’s main source for water. Beaver feces carry a microscopic protozoa that can cause giardia, known to campers elsewhere in Alaska as “beaver fever.” Diarrhea and vomiting are symptoms. Kivalina hunters using the Wulik as a corridor to inland caribou herds have been warned to boil water before drinking it. Beavers are among the unwelcome changes associated with climate change, said Michael Brubaker, lead author of reports documenting how two northwest villages have been affected. The appearance of North America’s largest rodent was a signal that a traditional water source had changed. “It’s a new health issue,” Brubaker said. “It affects people’s behavior. It can affect people’s health and it also affect s the cost of running water facilities.” Brubaker is director of community environment and safety for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, a health organization managed by tribal governments and their regional health organizations.

Let Virginia Professional Wildlife Removal Services, LLC take care of your beaver problems in the Richmond and Charlottesville Virginia areas of Central Virginia. We utilize proven beaver trapping techniques to remove your beaver problem. For beaver trapping, beaver control, beaver management, beaver capture and beaver exclusion services in the Richmond Virginia, Charlottesville VA, and Central Virginia areas call (434) 270-0488 or toll-free at (888) 893-1975. We also provide removal and trapping services for bats, beavers, bees, birds, flying squirrels, foxes, groundhogs, opossums, mice, moles, raccoons, rats, skunks, snakes, squirrels, voles and more. Best of all we are licensed and insured in the State of Virginia and our work is guaranteed. For additional information on Virginia Wildlife Removal, Trapping and Control.

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Professional Animal Wildlife Removal In Richmond and Charlottesville, VA

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Virginia Professional Wildlife Removal Services, LLC provide efficient and humane animal wildlife removal, trapping, exclusion and control in the Richmond and Charlottesville areas. We are licensed and insured providing both residential and commercial wildlife animal removal services 24/7. Some of the animals we remove include squirrels, raccoons, beavers, skunks, snakes and bats. Contact us at (434) 270-0488 or toll-free at (888) 893-1975 for all of your wildlife removal problems.