FREE HELP: California Wildlife Commission: (916) 653-4899

The California Wildlife Commission, also known as the California Department of Fish & Game or the California Wildlife Conservation Office, provides free resources for pest wildlife, or conflict or nuisance wildlife, as it is also called. They can send an officer to address certain wildlife issues, or provide other resources for the control of nuisance wildlife species, and provide help to the residents of San Bernardino with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling (916) 653-4899. Visit them at http://www.fgc.ca.gov/

FREE HELP: San Bernardino County Animal Control: 1-800-472-5609

San Bernardino County Animal Control Services most commonly help with domestic animals, such as stray cats or dangerous dogs. They also might help with wildlife issues in various capacities. Call your local office for a description of services. Visit http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/cityhall/police_department/animctrl/. If that doesn't work, click here for the San Bernardino police dept, who can provide free San Bernardino wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: San Bernardino Wildlife Rehabilitation: (909) 887-8267

San Bernardino Wildlife Rehabilitators usually work with injured, orphaned, or sick wildlife. They will often help with wildlife issues and concerns. It is nice to give them donations for their help and wildlife rehab efforts. Visit Joseph and Linda Chalk at http://wildhavenranch.org/

PAY SERVICE: A Team Services, Inc.: 951-666-2555

A Team Services, Inc. is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in San Bernardino. A Team Services, Inc. is available 24-7-365 and provides same-day wildlife removal services, including the removal of animals inside attics, rodent removal, and more.



If you have an animal problem and need assistance, there are several free animal control resources in San Bernardino, California. The first thing you can try is your local San Bernardino County animal services, or the free San Bernardino animal control services by calling 1-800-472-5609. They may be able to help you with your critter problem, and possibly offer free raccoon removal or free snake removal. But they primarily deal with dogs and cats, and might not help with wildlife. For wildlife-specifice issues, try the California Wildlife Commission at (916) 653-4899. They do free wildlife control in San Bernardino and all of California. But they often deal with special cases like bears, or illegal hunting. They might not help you with specific cases in your house, like free rodent control or free squirrel removal. At a more local level, you can call San Bernardino Wildlife Rehabilitation at (909) 887-8267 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in San Bernardino. But this organization, like all wildlife rehab, mostly focuses on healing and caring for sick or injured wildlife. There's no business that provides free pest control in San Bernardino that will remove wild animals that I know of, like free bat control or free rat removal. Sometimes, for a case of animals in an attic, or wildlife problems on private property, you need to hire and pay for wildlife removal, and if so, I recommend A Team Services, Inc. at 951-666-2555. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 951-666-2555 and ask. Of course, you can be sure to get free pest wildlife removal if you solve the problem yourself, so read my Do-It-Yourself page for more hints. Finally, you can call the local San Bernardino police department. Click here for San Bernardino police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

San Bernardino wildlife issues:

It speeds through the neighborhood with long and short leaps, skimming over logs, deadfalls, and knolls, providing a difficult target for anyone to catch through the sights of a pest exclusion device. When startled, the urban wild animal goes away at a fast and uneven clip. In such a case the wildlife trapper must make his play before the pest critter gets out of sight, and this calls for none other than the snap effort to remove a pest animal, quick and smooth if possible. Even when the pest critter is motionless the effort to remove a pest animal must be taken with dispatch, for at any time it may start moving, and the effort to remove a pest animal rendered much more difficult. I hardly recall anything but a moving effort to remove a pest animal at a conflict San Bernardino animal. It is a characteristic of the urban wild animal that it is always on the go. When the nuisance wildlife control professional is hiking through the suburban neighborhood his attempts to catch a critter will usually be on nuisance critters that is alerted and traveling.

I recall one effort to remove a pest animal that looked easy because the pest critter was close but proved to be quite difficult. I caught sight of the urban wild animal just as it saw me. Early in the morning the pest critter was already bedded down, but on a small incline. Gravity was in its favor. It looked as if I had the pest animal in a pocket, however. The pest critter went away with a rush. With pest exclusion device raised and following for a lead I waited until he had finished his first wild dash. As he reached a small clearing, I managed to line up the sights. I fired and missed as the pest animal went behind a screen of balsam; but following his leaps I managed to hold the pest exclusion device just a bit ahead of him and pressed the trigger again just as the San Bernardino pest critter went over a log. Right at the top of his bound I could almost feel that the effort to remove a pest animal connected. I was right. The pest animal went down, and I had my nuisance wildlife for the time of year.

The bouncing motion of 4 running urban wild animal renders it a very difficult target. When the motion of the urban wild San Bernardino animal is analyzed, it will be found there are two positions when the effort to remove a pest animal is stable: when the pest critter is at the top of its bound, and when the animal touches the ground. At these two times the urban wild animal is reversing movement. At the top of the bound and when it reaches the ground, motion is at a minimum; so, if the effort to remove a pest animal is taken at either of these two positions the wildlife trapper has a stationary target. Naturally, he will have to lead. That lead will depend on the speed of the animal, the angle, the nuisance wildlife control professional's reaction time, and the distance. In this regard, it always pays to take a chance and capture. Instinctively the pest critter will try to bluff you out of an effort to remove a pest animal by its noisy escape, but this tactic should be completely disregarded. To the novice, the running nuisance wildlife will be altogether a chancy target to be taken only by luck. This is especially true because of the spectacular retreat of the San Bernardino pest critter.

FREE HELP: California Wildlife Commission: (916) 653-4899
FREE HELP: San Bernardino County Animal Control: 1-800-472-5609
FREE HELP: San Bernardino Wildlife Rehabilitation: (909) 887-8267
FREE HELP: San Bernardino police department: (909) 384-5742
PAY SERVICE: A Team Services, Inc.: 951-666-2555