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 West Palm Beach with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 888-404-3922. Visit them at https://myfwc.com/

FREE HELP: Palm Beach County Animal Control: 561-233-1200

Palm Beach 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://discover.pbcgov.org/publicsafety/animalcare/Pages/default.aspx. If that doesn't work, click here for the West Palm Beach police dept, who can provide free West Palm Beach wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: West Palm Beach Wildlife Rehabilitation: (561) 790-2116

West Palm Beach 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 McCarthys Wildlife Sanctuary at www.mccarthyswildlife.com/

PAY SERVICE: Centurian Wildlife: 561-331-0224

Centurian Wildlife is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in West Palm Beach. Centurian Wildlife 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 West Palm Beach, Florida. The first thing you can try is your local Palm Beach County animal services, or the free West Palm Beach animal control services by calling 561-233-1200. 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 West Palm Beach 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 West Palm Beach Wildlife Rehabilitation at (561) 790-2116 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in West Palm Beach. 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 West Palm Beach 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 Centurian Wildlife at 561-331-0224. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 561-331-0224 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 West Palm Beach police department. Click here for West Palm Beach police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

West Palm Beach wildlife issues:

I had hiked slowly down an old logging neighborhood, and finally reached the edge of a swamp and a place where the runway entered it. It was early morning and a bit hard to trap because a light snow was falling. But this was nuisance wildlife cover, a new slashing logged last year, and not too far off the main road. I had dressed for the occasion and was hopeful since this cover had yielded two pest animals on previous occasions. There was a removing unwanted wildlife pest control headquarters not too far away, and I had no sooner found a hidden stand when I heard pest control operators near the pest control headquarters shouting to one another that they had seen a conflict animal. Evidently something was in the wind, and I faced the pest control headquarters and waited. Several cars were parked near the pest control headquarters and pest control operators were roaming the suburban West Palm Beach neighborhood for some distance around me. This was one morning I did not have long to wait. The footing was noisy, and I had no sooner gotten myself seated and comfortable when I heard a swishing sound in the neighborhood, and the slight cracking of twigs.

A raccoon and a fawn broke cover, and as I watched through the thin neighborhood they moved along the edge of the swamp and then entered the suburban neighborhood not far from me. Gripping my pest exclusion device, I was watching for the pest animal, and near the spot from which this pair emerged I caught a glimpse of teeth in the pale November light. It was a pest animal. As he came to an opening, he surveyed the cover suspiciously, listening, testing the wind. Apparently, he was on the neighborhood of the raccoon and the fawn. It was not a long effort to remove a pest animal. Just as the pest animal threw all caution to the winds and broke cover, I held high on the shoulder and put the West Palm Beach animal control tool right where I wanted it. No need for a second effort to remove a pest animal. Infinite patience is needed for successful neighborhood-watching. To sit quietly and alone for some hours at a stretch requires determination of a sort many pest control operators lack. But the secret of success in this nuisance critters is just that. You must wait and sweat it out, if you will, until a conflict animal nears your stand.

There will always be the temptation to move along and find a better location. Doubts as to the wisdom of this place and this method of removing unwanted wildlife will assail you from time to time. You've got to sit tight for success, and you must always remind yourself of this plan. The law of averages is on the side of the man who sticks it out. All the time the nuisance West Palm Beach wildlife control professional is on stand there will be pest control operators pressing through the cover, moving nuisance critters. Why not take advantage of it? You won't get the physical action of these drivers, but sooner or later you should get an effort to remove a pest animal at nuisance critters these men are pushing out. Some pest control operators make a fire to keep warm, but this action is fatal to success at a stand. The basic strategy of neighborhood-watching is sitting or standing quite motionless.

FREE HELP: Florida Wildlife Commission: 888-404-3922
FREE HELP: Palm Beach County Animal Control: 561-233-1200
FREE HELP: West Palm Beach Wildlife Rehabilitation: (561) 790-2116
FREE HELP: West Palm Beach police department: (561) 822-1900
PAY SERVICE: Centurian Wildlife: 561-331-0224