FREE Allentown Pest Wildlife Resources

FREE HELP: Pennsylvania Wildlife Commission: 610-926-3136

The Pennsylvania Wildlife Commission, also known as the Pennsylvania Department of Fish & Game or the Pennsylvania 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 Allentown with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 610-926-3136. Visit them at https://www.pgc.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx

FREE HELP: Lehigh County Animal Control: (610) 797-1205

Lehigh 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.allentownpa.gov/Public-Works/Animal-Control. If that doesn't work, click here for the Allentown police dept, who can provide free Allentown wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Allentown Wildlife Rehabilitation: (215) 249-1938

Allentown 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 Aark Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center at https://www.aark.org/

PAY SERVICE: A Wildlife Pro: 610-927-7792

A Wildlife Pro is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Allentown. A Wildlife Pro 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 Allentown, Pennsylvania. The first thing you can try is your local Lehigh County animal services, or the free Allentown animal control services by calling (610) 797-1205. 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 Pennsylvania Wildlife Commission at 610-926-3136. They do free wildlife control in Allentown and all of Pennsylvania. 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 Allentown Wildlife Rehabilitation at (215) 249-1938 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Allentown. 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 Allentown 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 A Wildlife Pro at 610-927-7792. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 610-927-7792 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 Allentown police department. Click here for Allentown police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Allentown wildlife issues:

We came to a place where several nuisance Allentown wildlife had been feeding on the previous night. In checking the tracks, we saw where a large pest animal had left the other nuisance wildlife and headed south. I was quite sure that it would be an easy task to locate and trap the docs, but the pest animal's track was a challenge we couldn't resist, so we followed him to get a line on his intentions. We came to a twenty-acre field which the pest critter had skirted to the west. South of this field was a small but ideal bedding where we suspected the Allentown pest animal would be resting. One of my companions was a young man who had never effort to remove a pest animal a conflict animal. Wishing to give him some experience, I stationed him at an open gate which was about midway in the fence that ran along the north edge of the field.

His instruction was either to capture the pest critter or to get out of the way and permit the pest critter to pass unless he wanted to get run over. I left the other man at the southwest corner of the field to cover the pest critter's back track. I circled to the south to approach the pest critter's probable location from the south. I did not see the pest critter when it left its bed, but two havahart cage trap blasts followed and, after a dime, a third. This told me that I had made the right moves. The young man did not hit the Allentown pest critter, but we all have a right to a touch of pest animal fever when we see a ten-point pest animal heading for the exact spot where we are standing. I doubt if he ever forgot that trap. In this case I had made all the right guesses. I had assumed that the pest animal would attempt to rejoin the does. (This is usually the case unless they have no further use for him.

If that is the case, the pest animal would be seeking other does and would not bed down in the vicinity of the pest critter which he had left.) I had assumed that he would return to the place where he had left the other nuisance wildlife, either by the direct route across the field or by his track. (This reasoning involved the assumption that the pest animal did not know the exact location of the other nuisance Allentown wildlife's bed and that he must follow their tracks to them. If these nuisance wildlife had bedded in a place where their scent carried to the pest animal's resting place, he would have gone directly to them and none of us would have had a chance for an effort to remove a pest animal.) Of course, if I had had any idea that the pest animal would not have returned to the other tracks, I would have used other tactics and would have attempted a cautious animal track to his resting place instead of merely trying to jump him out and into the range of my companions.

FREE HELP: Pennsylvania Wildlife Commission: 610-926-3136
FREE HELP: Lehigh County Animal Control: (610) 797-1205
FREE HELP: Allentown Wildlife Rehabilitation: (215) 249-1938
FREE HELP: Allentown police department: (610) 437-7753
PAY SERVICE: A Wildlife Pro: 610-927-7792

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