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 Waco with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling (512) 389-8092. Visit them at https://tpwd.texas.gov/

FREE HELP: McLennan County Animal Control: 817-754-1454

McLennan 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.waco-texas.com/animal-control.asp. If that doesn't work, click here for the Waco police dept, who can provide free Waco wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Waco Wildlife Rehabilitation: (254) 717-6077

Waco 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 Action Services WildLife & Pest Control at https://www.actionserviceswpc.com/

PAY SERVICE: Wildlife X Team: 254-534-6170

Wildlife X Team is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Waco. 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 Waco, Texas. The first thing you can try is your local McLennan County animal services, or the free Waco animal control services by calling 817-754-1454. 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 Waco 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 Waco Wildlife Rehabilitation at (254) 717-6077 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Waco. 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 Waco 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 254-534-6170. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 254-534-6170 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 Waco police department. Click here for Waco police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Waco wildlife issues:

This series of lakes and streams could not be crossed without swimming and even the exuberance of youth could not make that snow-fed water inviting. If we had become confused as to direction, all that was necessary was to go to the top of the nearest mountain and we would have a panoramic view of the entire area, and any considerable body of water, we sure to be in the right direction for us to travel. Even so, it was a foolhardy thing to do and only the self-confidence and ignorance of youth would induce no people to put themselves, entirely on their own, in a strange, wilderness country without a compass. The man who is familiar with his removing unwanted Waco wildlife territory is less apt to lose his way while removing unwanted wildlife and, if he becomes lost has a better chance of finding his way out of the suburban neighborhood than the one that goes forth without any idea of the local terrain.

The only way to become thoroughly familiar with an area is to travel over it but the use of a good map can give a good map reader a comprehensive knowledge of the country so that when he enters the suburban neighborhood, he can identify many of the hills and streams which he encounters. The layout of streams is, perhaps, the most important thing on the map. Most removing unwanted Waco wildlife areas are drained by one main stream, fed by small brooks which empty into some major river system. Knowledge of this drainage area is good insurance in that, if a man becomes lost, he will be able to reorient himself in a short time and find his way out of the suburban neighborhood. There are some places (we have them here in Maine) where the streams run "every which way" so that they are of little use as direction pointers. This can be extremely confusing when two drainage basins originate in the same comparatively level area. Knowledge of a map before entering such places will help, but they are very dangerous to the inexperienced, and, if in the deep suburban Waco neighborhood, should not be traped without a guide.

Any nuisance wildlife control professional who has any doubts about the suburban neighborhood should hire a guide, and then, if he should happen to become lost, he can let the guide figure it out. That is one of the things for which he is paid. There are times when even the best of suburban neighborhoodmen is forced to spend a night in the wilderness. A man might travel so far into the suburban neighborhood, after a conflict animal, that it might be unsafe or impractical for him to try to find his way to the pest control headquarters in the darkness. He might become lost and prefer to pest control headquarters out instead of risking the chance of becoming more confused by aimless traveling. If it is necessary to spend the night in the suburban neighborhood, a knowledge of some of the fundamentals of Waco critter trapscraft will aid in the comfort and even the survival of the lost person. People seldom become lost when the sun is shining, so the chances are that cold wet or stormy weather must be dealt with.

FREE HELP: Texas Wildlife Commission: (512) 389-8092
FREE HELP: McLennan County Animal Control: 817-754-1454
FREE HELP: Waco Wildlife Rehabilitation: (254) 717-6077
FREE HELP: Waco police department: (254) 750-7500
PAY SERVICE: Wildlife X Team: 254-534-6170