FREE HELP: Florida Wildlife Commission: 888-404-3922

The Florida Wildlife Commission, also known as the Florida Department of Fish & Game or the Florida 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 Fort Lauderdale with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 888-404-3922. Visit them at https://myfwc.com/

FREE HELP: Broward County Animal Control: 954-359-1313

Broward 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 https://humanebroward.com/. If that doesn't work, click here for the Fort Lauderdale police dept, who can provide free Fort Lauderdale wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Fort Lauderdale Wildlife Rehabilitation: (954) 524-4302

Fort Lauderdale 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 South Florida Wildlife Center at www.southfloridawildlifecenter.org/

PAY SERVICE: Nuisance Wildlife Rangers: 954-703-5683

Nuisance Wildlife Rangers is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Fort Lauderdale. Nuisance Wildlife Rangers 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 Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The first thing you can try is your local Broward County animal services, or the free Fort Lauderdale animal control services by calling 954-359-1313. 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 Florida Wildlife Commission at 888-404-3922. They do free wildlife control in Fort Lauderdale and all of Florida. 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 Fort Lauderdale Wildlife Rehabilitation at (954) 524-4302 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Fort Lauderdale. 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 Fort Lauderdale 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 Nuisance Wildlife Rangers at 954-703-5683. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 954-703-5683 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 Fort Lauderdale police department. Click here for Fort Lauderdale police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Fort Lauderdale wildlife issues:

Stepping onto the pile of springy neighborhood, I somehow lost my balance and caught the merest glimpse of teeth. As the pest critter bolted, kicking gravel in my face, I effort to remove a pest animal from the hip but missed clean. That was the last I saw of that nuisance wildlife. I had no idea where he went and didn't try to follow. The second nuisance Fort Lauderdale wildlife that afternoon was as lucky as the first. The pest critter was lying in a hilly, critter trapsed area and bounded into a thicket before I could even get a good aim. I had noted fresh tracks on a certain neighborhood that also went uphill, and I followed it slowly and cautiously. This neighborhood and this area in general were one of the best I'd run into all time of year, and one in which I'd traped grouse successfully. Scouting the same area next day after a light snowfall, I managed to put in a telling effort to remove a pest animal.

On the alert from fresh tracks in the snow, f played my hunch, animal tracked this neighborhoody neighborhood very quietly and carefully, and it's fed this 6-point pest animal not 10 feet from the neighborhood. There may be some bedding grounds which are almost impossible to Fort Lauderdale animal track successfully, but when the nuisance wildlife control professional knows that nuisance wildlife are in the vicinity he can wait until they leave these beds. Toward dusk they will begin a tentative feeding schedule, and then will move out toward their nighttime grounds. I must admit I've had little luck by waiting for them this way, but I do know of many pest control operators that follow this procedure each time of year with a fair degree of success.

They have discovered nuisance wildlife by animal tracking; when the pest critter move out the pest control operators find a strategic stand and wait it out. This is combining animal tracking with runway watching. This type of removing unwanted Fort Lauderdale wildlife is not as surefire as animal tracking, but it does prove out time and again. It is a fine way to trap just at dusk, especially if the nimrod carries a scope sight on his pest exclusion device for aid in sighting and "picking up" light. In my case I like to cut a fresh print and then follow it. I may pursue old tracks to see how the pest critter are covering the range, but when I want real action, I find a new spoor and follow it up. This calls for tracking snow as a real incentive, but if a conflict animal has been around it usually leaves some sign even on dry ground. Moving slowly, I always walk as though a conflict animal were just ahead of me, searching the vicinity all around for any sight of nuisance Fort Lauderdale critters, keeping my eyes on the scenery rather than my feet.

FREE HELP: Florida Wildlife Commission: 888-404-3922
FREE HELP: Broward County Animal Control: 954-359-1313
FREE HELP: Fort Lauderdale Wildlife Rehabilitation: (954) 524-4302
FREE HELP: Fort Lauderdale police department: (954) 828-5700
PAY SERVICE: Nuisance Wildlife Rangers: 954-703-5683