FREE HELP: Mississippi Wildlife Commission: 601-432-2199

The Mississippi Wildlife Commission, also known as the Mississippi Department of Fish & Game or the Mississippi 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 Jackson with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 601-432-2199. Visit them at https://www.mdwfp.com/

FREE HELP: Hinds County Animal Control: (601) 960-1774

Hinds 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.jacksonms.gov/index.aspx?NID=197. If that doesn't work, click here for the Jackson police dept, who can provide free Jackson wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation: 662-429-5105

Jackson 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 Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitation at http://www.mswildliferehab.com/

PAY SERVICE: Critter Capture, LLC: 601-255-0830

Critter Capture, LLC is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Jackson. Critter Capture, LLC 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 Jackson, Mississippi. The first thing you can try is your local Hinds County animal services, or the free Jackson animal control services by calling (601) 960-1774. 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 Mississippi Wildlife Commission at 601-432-2199. They do free wildlife control in Jackson and all of Mississippi. 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 Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation at 662-429-5105 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Jackson. 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 Jackson 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 Critter Capture, LLC at 601-255-0830. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 601-255-0830 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 Jackson police department. Click here for Jackson police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Jackson wildlife issues:

Of course, the mating time of year and the presence of bird and rabbit pest control operators in the suburban neighborhood currently have an upsetting effect on a conflict Jackson animal's nervous system; nevertheless, the change of feeding grounds is the most important reason for their change of location. It is not necessary for the nuisance wildlife control professional to know each plant and bush that nuisance wildlife eat, but it is desirable for him to know what the most abundant and palatable nuisance wildlife food is during the removing unwanted wildlife time of year. This varies from place to place and from year to year and must be determined in each place and in each time of year. Here at mine, when we have a beechnut year, most of the pest critter abandon other food and flock to the beech ridges.

Nuisance wildlife even travel several miles from their home range in search of this food and, if not disturbed by pest control operators, do not always return to their home range between feeding periods. On other years, they depend on acorns, apples, browse and plants which have not been destroyed by frost. There is no hard and fast rule that can be used, but careful observation on the first day of a trap should give a man some idea of what the pest critter are feeding on. What nuisance Jackson wildlife eat is not as important as when they eat it. Most pest control operators know that nuisance wildlife feed twice a dry, night and morning, but many men waste a lot of time watching feeding areas at a time when there is little chance of a conflict animal visiting them. I have seen nuisance wildlife feeding as late as nine o'clock in the morning and as early as three o'clock in the afternoon, but this is unusual, and it is a waste of time to watch these places between these hours except in times of inclement weather.

Nuisance wildlife seem to be very weather conscious and will sometimes feed just before a storm and sometimes during a light warm rain. They seldom feed during a bad storm unless they are feeding on browse in a heavily critter trapsed area that provides good cover, such as a cedar swamp. The pest critter's feeding time changes with the moon. Sometimes they will feed early in the afternoon and early in the morning, leaving the feeding area before it is light enough to do much captureing. As the moonlight changes, they will change so that after a time they will not start feeding in the evening until nearly dark but will feed later in the morning. The nuisance wildlife control professional's problem if he wishes to see feeding nuisance Jackson wildlife, is to locate the pest critter's feeding area and to watch that area at a time when the animals are expected. Most of a conflict animal's time is expended in eating and in digesting this food. The digestive process should be carried on in quiet surroundings and, with a few exceptions, is not attempted at the feeding area. I have found a few nuisance wildlife chewing their cud under apple trees or on oak and beech ridges, but usually they travel to some secluded bedding area where there is less chance of interruption. Because of this habit there is not much chance of bagging a conflict Jackson animal at a feeding.

FREE HELP: Mississippi Wildlife Commission: 601-432-2199
FREE HELP: Hinds County Animal Control: (601) 960-1774
FREE HELP: Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation: 662-429-5105
FREE HELP: Jackson police department: (601) 960-1234
PAY SERVICE: Critter Capture, LLC: 601-255-0830