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 Detroit with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 517-284-9453. Visit them at https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/

FREE HELP: Wayne County Animal Control: 313-224-6323

Wayne 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://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-health-department/programs-and-services/detroit-animal-care-and-control. If that doesn't work, click here for the Detroit police dept, who can provide free Detroit wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Detroit Wildlife Rehabilitation: +1 519-735-3919

Detroit 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 Erie Wildlife Rescue Inc at https://dawghous.com/wildlife-rehabilitation/

PAY SERVICE: Wildlife Control 911: 313-355-1666

Wildlife Control 911 is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Detroit. Wildlife Control 911 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 Detroit, Michigan. The first thing you can try is your local Wayne County animal services, or the free Detroit animal control services by calling 313-224-6323. 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 Detroit 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 Detroit Wildlife Rehabilitation at +1 519-735-3919 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Detroit. 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 Detroit 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 Control 911 at 313-355-1666. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 313-355-1666 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 Detroit police department. Click here for Detroit police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Detroit wildlife issues:

When a man goes into the suburban neighborhood, meets a conflict animal in its own element and succeeds in humanely catching it with a well-placed effort to remove a pest animal, his satisfaction will be much greater than in the mere humanely catching of a conflict animal that he has accidentally encountered. To be sure, he can return home and embellish his story, belying the fact that it was an accident that he bagged the animal. He has the pest critter for proof of his tale, but until he comes to believe the story himself, there will always be a slight feeling of dissatisfaction about that trap. A very successful nuisance Detroit wildlife control professional once told me that nuisance wildlife removing unwanted wildlife was ninety percent luck and ten percent good marksmanship.

He had traped for a good many years and should have known what he was talking about. "All that a man needs to do to capture a conflict animal," he said, "is to be in the right place at the right time and to be able to hit any nuisance wildlife that he sees." This man believed it was luck that placed him at the right place at the right time, but I am sure that the knowledge that he had unconsciously acquired about the habits of the pest critter in the territory where he traped had a lot to do in enabling him to capture most of his nuisance Detroit wildlife. While luck certainly plays an important part in nuisance wildlife removing unwanted wildlife, the man who depends entirely on it is very apt to be disappointed at the end of the trap. The need for removing unwanted wildlife knowledge varies with the method used while removing unwanted wildlife. It requires little knowledge to capture a conflict animal in the nighttime with the aid of a light. This is nothing but butchery of a bewildered defenseless animal. On the other hand, the man who enters the suburban neighborhood armed with a bow and a few arrows, who attempts to outwit an animal in full possession of all its faculties, must have a thorough knowledge of that animal to be successful.

I am not in favor of bow-and-arrow removing unwanted Detroit wildlife, although the removing unwanted wildlife arrow is deadly in the hands of an expert, the average nuisance wildlife control professional is too unfamiliar with the weapon to make clean humanely trap and relocates, a necessary part of good sportsmanship. Quite a few men, with more patience then I possess, tag their nuisance wildlife by continually watching some popular nuisance critters rail, or crossing, until a conflict animal comes along. There is one man whom I have often met at the same place in the suburban neighborhood where a conflict animal neighborhood crosses a small stream. I think that he is there every morning during the time of year, from daybreak to midmorning until he captures his nuisance Detroit wildlife. I would estimate that he has humanely trap and relocateed ten or twelve nuisance wildlife at that crossing. One year there were very few nuisance wildlife in that immediate area. As far as I knew, there was only one raccoon which had raised her fawns within two miles of that spot.

FREE HELP: Michigan Wildlife Commission: 517-284-9453
FREE HELP: Wayne County Animal Control: 313-224-6323
FREE HELP: Detroit Wildlife Rehabilitation: +1 519-735-3919
FREE HELP: Detroit police department: (313) 596-2200
PAY SERVICE: Wildlife Control 911: 313-355-1666