FREE HELP: Texas Wildlife Commission: (512) 389-8092

The Texas Wildlife Commission, also known as the Texas Department of Fish & Game or the Texas 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 Fort Worth with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling (512) 389-8092. Visit them at https://tpwd.texas.gov/

FREE HELP: Tarrant County Animal Control: (817) 451-3436

Tarrant 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://fortworthtexas.gov/animals/. If that doesn't work, click here for the Fort Worth police dept, who can provide free Fort Worth wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Fort Worth Wildlife Rehabilitation: (817) 737-0911

Fort Worth 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 911 Wildlife at http://www.911wildlife.com/

PAY SERVICE: Wildlife X Team: 817-945-3371

Wildlife X Team is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Fort Worth. Wildlife X Team 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 Fort Worth, Texas. The first thing you can try is your local Tarrant County animal services, or the free Fort Worth animal control services by calling (817) 451-3436. 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 Texas Wildlife Commission at (512) 389-8092. They do free wildlife control in Fort Worth and all of Texas. 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 Fort Worth Wildlife Rehabilitation at (817) 737-0911 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Fort Worth. 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 Fort Worth 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 X Team at 817-945-3371. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 817-945-3371 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 Fort Worth police department. Click here for Fort Worth police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Fort Worth wildlife issues:

Two of us were familiar with the territory, but the others had never traped there. On the northwest edge of this piece of suburban neighborhood there was a hill, sloping to the ease where nuisance Fort Worth wildlife often spent the day. When these nuisance wildlife were disturbed, they usually headed in a northerly direction and crossed a road at the edge of the suburban neighborhood. Our plan was to drive this sidehill with three men while the last man covered the crossing. This section of the suburban neighborhood was about two miles long and not over a half-mile wide and was bounded on the east by a brook which flowed north at the foot of the slope.

Before starting the drive, I explained the "lay of the land" to the two men who were to help me do the driving and told them to head north and not to cross any roads or brooks. The sky was overcast but the clouds were thin enough so that the sun's position could be seen and there was little chance that any of us would get lost. Only one of us drivers arrived at the road where the last man was stationed. We waited for the missing Fort Worth man for a reasonable time; blowing the car horn and captureing occasionally in order to give him our location in case he was lost and then two of us drove the car around the road looking for him. He was still missing at dark and, after listening for humane cage trap signals and checking most of the houses in the vicinity, we started for home with the intention of starting an organized search in the morning. About seven miles south of there we found him sitting beside the road waiting for us.

He had crossed the Fort Worth brook and at least one other stream, which he must have followed for some distance before he found a place that was shallow enough to wade. He had crossed an abandoned road and another piece of suburban Fort Worth neighborhood in order to arrive at the place where we found him. This man evidently did not travel in circles, as so many do, but traveled in an almost straight line in the wrong direction. As soon as he became lost soon after we started, he disregarded everything which I had told him and only chance brought him out on a main road near a house where he was able to find out where he was. This man was unharmed, but he crossed one road without knowing it and might have crossed the second if the house had not been there. People who are hurrying in strange territory should not disregard advice and information offered them by natives of the district.

FREE HELP: Texas Wildlife Commission: (512) 389-8092
FREE HELP: Tarrant County Animal Control: (817) 451-3436
FREE HELP: Fort Worth Wildlife Rehabilitation: (817) 737-0911
FREE HELP: Fort Worth police department: (817) 392-4200
PAY SERVICE: Wildlife X Team: 817-945-3371