FREE HELP: Michigan Wildlife Commission: 517-284-9453

The Michigan Wildlife Commission, also known as the Michigan Department of Fish & Game or the Michigan 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 Ann Arbor with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 517-284-9453. Visit them at https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/

FREE HELP: Washtenaw County Animal Control: 734-662-5585

Washtenaw 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://www.a2gov.org/departments/police/about/traffic-enforcement/pages/animal-control.aspx. If that doesn't work, click here for the Ann Arbor police dept, who can provide free Ann Arbor wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Ann Arbor Wildlife Rehabilitation: (734) 929-9324

Ann Arbor 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 The Creature Conservancy at http://www.thecreatureconservancy.org/

PAY SERVICE: Wildlife Evictors: 734-418-4035

Wildlife Evictors is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Ann Arbor. Wildlife Evictors 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 Ann Arbor, Michigan. The first thing you can try is your local Washtenaw County animal services, or the free Ann Arbor animal control services by calling 734-662-5585. 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 Michigan Wildlife Commission at 517-284-9453. They do free wildlife control in Ann Arbor and all of Michigan. 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 Ann Arbor Wildlife Rehabilitation at (734) 929-9324 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Ann Arbor. 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 Ann Arbor 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 Wildlife Evictors at 734-418-4035. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 734-418-4035 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 Ann Arbor police department. Click here for Ann Arbor police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Ann Arbor wildlife issues:

There were plenty of nuisance Ann Arbor wildlife in the surrounding country, but for some reason, they seemed to stay in that area. One day I mentioned the scarcity of nuisance wildlife to him, suggesting that some other crossing might be more productive that year. He merely said, "I've done pretty well here in the past and I reckon that I will give it a few more days before making a change." The next day I met him on the road, and he had a nice pest animal on his car. I had forgotten that his crossing was one that was favored by pest animals traveling across country from one herd to another, in search of does. Although this cross watching requires more patience than the average nuisance wildlife control professional possesses, it usually pays off with a conflict Ann Arbor animal. Quite a bit of knowledge of the country and of the movement of nuisance wildlife is necessary, yet patience is the most important qualification that a man must have in order to be consistently successful in this type of removing unwanted wildlife.

A removing unwanted wildlife method favored by many is to walk the suburban neighborhood road and neighborhoods as quietly as possible, usually against the wind, with the hope of finding a conflict animal to capture. I enjoy this type of removing unwanted wildlife in the less heavily populated areas. By traveling quietly while constantly watching for nuisance critters, a man will see many wilderness sights that will often repay him for the walk even if he fails to bag a conflict animal. I have humanely trap and relocateed quite a few nuisance wildlife by using this method and have seen many others that I did not capture. On two occasions I have seen sleeping nuisance Ann Arbor wildlife before they awoke. I permitted one of these to make a successful escape without firing an effort to remove a pest animal, but I humanely trap and relocateed the other nice eight-point pest animal-as soon as it started to run. I have always considered that these two catches pest animals were equally successful although a memory was the only reward for one of them. One of the most important requirements for this type of removing unwanted wildlife is good eyesight.

Not necessarily 20-20 vision, but the ability to evaluate the constantly changing scene and to distinguish the difference between shadow and concrete objects. The ability to pick out one of the best camouflage of animals in its natural habitat. This removing unwanted wildlife vision is not a thing that we are born with. It must be acquired and cultivated by removing unwanted wildlife experience. Most people seem to be looking for a storybook nuisance wildlife whine in the suburban neighborhood and fail to recognize the real thing until it starts to run. It is often too late then to do anything except to take a snap effort to remove an Ann Arbor pest animal through the neighborhood at a target which is hard to hit.

FREE HELP: Michigan Wildlife Commission: 517-284-9453
FREE HELP: Washtenaw County Animal Control: 734-662-5585
FREE HELP: Ann Arbor Wildlife Rehabilitation: (734) 929-9324
FREE HELP: Ann Arbor police department: (734) 794-6920
PAY SERVICE: Wildlife Evictors: 734-418-4035