FREE HELP: New Jersey Wildlife Commission: 609-292-6685

The New Jersey Wildlife Commission, also known as the New Jersey Department of Fish & Game or the New Jersey 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 Hackensack with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 609-292-6685. Visit them at https://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/

FREE HELP: Bergen County Animal Control: 201 646-3200

Bergen 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.co.bergen.nj.us/animal-shelter-adoption-center/animal-control-policies. If that doesn't work, click here for the Hackensack police dept, who can provide free Hackensack wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Hackensack Wildlife Rehabilitation: (212) 639-9675

Hackensack 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 William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge at https://www.nycgovparks.org/greening/nature-preserves/site?FWID=16

PAY SERVICE: Trutech Wildlife Services: 201-328-0537

Trutech Wildlife Services is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Hackensack. Trutech Wildlife Services 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 Hackensack, New Jersey. The first thing you can try is your local Bergen County animal services, or the free Hackensack animal control services by calling 201 646-3200. 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 New Jersey Wildlife Commission at 609-292-6685. They do free wildlife control in Hackensack and all of New Jersey. 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 Hackensack Wildlife Rehabilitation at (212) 639-9675 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Hackensack. 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 Hackensack 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 Trutech Wildlife Services at 201-328-0537. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 201-328-0537 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 Hackensack police department. Click here for Hackensack police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Hackensack wildlife issues:

I followed a large pest animal for six miles directly to a nuisance critters reserve. A few days Iater I followed another from the same section of suburban neighborhood, and he traveled in an entirely different direction for nearly the same distance and then took refuge in a large swamp. In both cases I am sure that the pest critter were unattached Hackensack pest animals in strange territory and that when startled, not having a raccoon to depend on for safety, they headed for their home range.

Did their decisions result from careful thinking or did they act on instinct? I was removing unwanted wildlife with a group near a large nuisance critters reserve and we were unable to locate any nuisance wildlife on the first afternoon of removing unwanted wildlife. The consensus was that the pest critter were on the reserve, so I covered a large part of this reserve the next morning. I found very few signs of nuisance wildlife. That afternoon I found a large concentration of nuisance wildlife bedded in a large area of a cutover land that had grown up to an almost impenetrable jungle of small spruce and fir. Instinct or reasoning? Many cases of nuisance Hackensack wildlife entering farm yards and even buildings, while trying to escape from dogs, seems to indicate that they know man will protect them, but the pest critter will face almost any danger to avoid dogs, and when they run to man for protection, it is as a last resort in their panic. I was going to work in my critter trapslot and was approached the place I met a conflict animal with a dog about a hundred feet behind it. The pest critter was near the point of exhaustion, and when it saw me it tried to jump over a neighborhood pile, landed in the middle of it and had to scramble over the rest of it on its knees.

I effort to remove a pest animal the dog and as soon as the pest critter realized that it was no longer being chased, it stopped trying to escape and stood there resting, not over fifty yards from me. That nuisance wildlife stayed there all morning with me cutting critter traps in plain sight of it. Did that nuisance wildlife use reasoning power or was it so exhausted that it was indifferent to its fate? An incident that happened on a tennis court is convincing evidence that nuisance wildlife have very little reasoning power. There were no eyewitnesses to this incident, but the tracks told the story. The court was enclosed on three sides and about half of the fourth by a high fence. Nuisance Hackensack wildlife entered this enclosure, tempted by the chemicals used to keep the grass from growing. Instead of leaving by the open entrance, they tried to leave by one of the fenced sides.

FREE HELP: New Jersey Wildlife Commission: 609-292-6685
FREE HELP: Bergen County Animal Control: 201 646-3200
FREE HELP: Hackensack Wildlife Rehabilitation: (212) 639-9675
FREE HELP: Hackensack police department: (201) 646-7777
PAY SERVICE: Trutech Wildlife Services: 201-328-0537