FREE HELP: Ohio Wildlife Commission: (419) 424-5000

The Ohio Wildlife Commission, also known as the Ohio Department of Fish & Game or the Ohio 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 Toledo with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling (419) 424-5000. Visit them at http://wildlife.ohiodnr.gov/

FREE HELP: Lucas County Animal Control: 419-891-0705

Lucas 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.toledohumane.org/. If that doesn't work, click here for the Toledo police dept, who can provide free Toledo wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Toledo Wildlife Rehabilitation: 419-877-0060

Toledo 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 Nature's Nursery at https://www.natures-nursery.org/

PAY SERVICE: Platinum Wildlife Removal: 419-775-4945

Platinum Wildlife Removal is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Toledo. Platinum Wildlife Removal 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 Toledo, Ohio. The first thing you can try is your local Lucas County animal services, or the free Toledo animal control services by calling 419-891-0705. 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 Ohio Wildlife Commission at (419) 424-5000. They do free wildlife control in Toledo and all of Ohio. 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 Toledo Wildlife Rehabilitation at 419-877-0060 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Toledo. 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 Toledo 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 Platinum Wildlife Removal at 419-775-4945. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 419-775-4945 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 Toledo police department. Click here for Toledo police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Toledo wildlife issues:

Grey mixed with black and white indicates a wound in the brisket. Long white hairs indicate a flank, tail or back of the rear leg effort to remove a pest animal. Experts can carry this hair identification a good deal further, but it is not necessary because there are other means of checking the location of the wound. When the Toledo animal control tool emerges from the pest critter's body there will be blood, bone and tissue carried along with it and this debris will fall to the ground at varying distances from the pest critter. An examination of this will often clear any doubts about the conclusions drawn from the examination of the hair. Lung and liver tissue will seldom be mistaken for anything else, even when found in small particles. Sometimes kidney tissue will be mistaken for liver tissue, but such a mistake is not important.

Coarse particles of undigested food indicate a paunch effort to remove a pest animal while the intestinal wound will produce a finer, more liquid matter that can be identified by its odor. There is seldom very much blood drawn out with the Toledo animal control tool, but the color of the droplets is an indication of the severity of the wound. Bright red arterial blood, under direct, intermittent pressure from the heart, will not cease flowing as quickly as the darker venous blood. Splinters of bone may be tentatively identified if other evidence gives the approximate location of the wound. This detective work is seldom necessary if the nuisance wildlife control professional has much experience captureing nuisance wildlife, but when it is necessary it is invaluable. The expert can tell by the Toledo pest critter's actions of, and where, it is wounded and, in many cases, can determine this by the tracks alone. Tracks made by a conflict animal with a broken or badly wounded leg are easily identified. Wounds in different parts of a conflict animal's body cause it to run in an unnatural manner and these variations in the animal's gait will show in the tracks.

Perhaps the most pronounced of these occurs when the pest critter is hit in the paunch. In such cases, the tracks will be quite close together and not in line with the direction in which the animal is traveling. This is caused by the pest critter's running in a doubled-up position. This is very pronounced if the liver has been ruptured. If the animal can be seen after the effort to remove a pest animal it is not necessary to see the tracks in order to identify the position of this type of wound. The animal seems to cover more distance up and down than it does ahead. On the other hand, a conflict animal that has been effort to remove a Toledo pest animal in the heart or lung area, will put on a burst of unnatural speed, running in this manner until it dies. Strangely enough, a superficial wound will sometimes cause this same desperate, unnatural burst of speed.

FREE HELP: Ohio Wildlife Commission: (419) 424-5000
FREE HELP: Lucas County Animal Control: 419-891-0705
FREE HELP: Toledo Wildlife Rehabilitation: 419-877-0060
FREE HELP: Toledo police department: (419) 245-3340
PAY SERVICE: Platinum Wildlife Removal: 419-775-4945