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Rid-A-Critter Animal Control

Birmingham, Alabama Office

Bats in an attic vent in Birmingham, Alabama

Bats on an attic vent in Birmingham, Alabama.

Welcome to the Birmingham, Alabama office of Rid-A-Critter. We provide safe, humane, animal control in Jefferson County, Alabama and the entire Metro Birmingham area.

With more than a decade's experience, Rid-A-Critter has grown to become to region's largest and most comprehensive nuisance animal control company. We've built our success on a foundation of providing the most modern, progressive wildlife management services, combined with friendly customer service that has earned us the Better Business Bureau's highest rating.

We also use technicians who live in the areas that they service and who serve as the lead technicians on jobs within their service areas. But they also have backup from the rest of the company when they need it, resulting in hundreds of years of collective animal control experience and the biggest fleet of specialized equipment in the industry being available to them at a moment's notice.

Alabama Animal Control Services

Rid-A-Critter is a comprehensive animal control company that can handle any job, no matter how big or how small. Our Alabama office presently offers the following services:

Please contact us if your animal control problem isn't listed. Chances are, we can help you.

The Need for Wildlife Management in Alabama

Both humans and wild animals have a lot of needs in common. Among these are our needs for places to live, and for food to eat.

The problem, from a critter's point of view, is that as human populations grow, our cities and suburbs spread to make room for all those additional people. This often means cutting down forests and otherwise encroaching upon the lands that the animals once had pretty much all to themselves.

What this means is that the places where the wild critters and the human critters live, work, and play start overlapping each other; and wild animals start looking for places to live and food to eat closer and closer to human folks.

To make matters worse, once they move into our neck of the woods, the critters start getting more and more comfortable among humans -- comfortable enough, in fact, that they start moving into our homes and other buildings. And although the animals might not mind sharing, when wild critters get into our homes and property, they can cause major problems.

What kind of problems? Well, it depends a lot on the specie of animal. Squirrels or rats, for example, cause different kinds of damage than raccoons or birds. But in general, having wild animals in your home present the following kinds of problems:

Damage. Almost any animal that gets into your home is going to cause some kind of damage to your house itself and/or to personal property that you have stored away. For example, rodents in your attic will gnaw away at pretty much anything you have stored up there.

Health risks. Most animals can have a role in transmitting diseases through their urine, droppings, and shed parasites.

Animal Attacks. Some animals, like raccoons, may attack if they're startled. This could happen if, for example, you or someone in your family goes up into the attic to get something stored up there and comes across a raccoon that you didn't know was living in the attic.

Messiness. You would think that animals living in your attic rent-free would have the courtesy to take care of the place, at least. But they don't. They gnaw and scratch at things, build nests, and poop and pee all over the place. (That's why our available animal-removal services also include cleaning up the mess that the critters left behind.)

Increased Risk of Fires. Rats, mice, and squirrels living in your attic or in the walls of your home often create fire hazards by gnawing the insulation off electrical wires, leaving the conductors inside exposed.

Young raccoon humanely captured in Leeds, Alabama

A young raccoon trapped in Leeds, waiting to be reunited with its mom.

Nonetheless, despite the problems that they cause, animals are part of our natural world. As such, they deserve to be treated humanely and with respect. After all, it's not their fault that their habitats are being reduced by human expansion.

That's why at Rid-A-Critter, we make it a point to handle every animal control situation as humanely as possible. This includes:

About Us

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Rid-A-Critter has the staff and equipment to handle any animal control job.

Rid-A-Critter is licensed by the state of Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to provide nuisance wildlife control services. All of our Alabama animal control specialists also possess the required Alabama state licenses, and are carefully screened prior to being hired. We also are fully insured for all the work that we do.

Our training program is among the best in the industry, concentrating not only on the latest animal control practices and techniques, but also on the environmental and ecological implications of wildlife management. To insure the highest quality of service, we also employ field check supervisors to who perform unannounced quality assurance inspections.

We insist on the finest quality of work from all of our technicians, and we provide them with the finest materials and equipment needed for them to perform at their best. Our goal is perfection, and our goal is your gain.

On behalf of our entire Alabama animal removal and wildlife management crew, thanks for considering Rid-A-Critter for your animal control needs.

 

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Good morning, got a busy day today, squirrels in sterrett, rats in Birmingham, mice in Bessemer, and bats in Anniston, got quotes and some traps to check.
by Chris Scott
Sep 28, 2023 07:54:36 am.

We got a crew in Birmingham sealing a house that has some rats nesting in their attic. In Tuscaloosa quoting some exclusions for bats and squirrels.
by Chris Scott
Sep 27, 2023 11:27:45 am.

Headed to Tuscaloosa this morning. Going to check some rat traps for a customer we did an exclusion for. Got a quote for another customer with a large colony of bats in her attic. Then up to northport for a gray squirrel quote.
by Chris Scott
Sep 20, 2023 07:42:06 am.

Headed to Vestavia for a couple of squirrel jobs. It’s getting closer to the end of bat season, but going to Birmingham to quote a house with bats in the attic.
by Chris Scott
Sep 18, 2023 09:12:42 am.

Gray squirrels gnawed a fist-sized hole through a stucco-covered wall right where it meets the soffit to get into the attic of a house in Clay, Alabama. A squirrel-removal crew working out of our Birmingham office will repair the damage and animal-proof the house as soon as the squirrels and any other wildlife have been trapped and relocated.
by Webmaster
Sep 14, 2023 09:13:59 am.

Roof rats gnawed through the stucco paint on a roof soffit to get into the attic of a house in Clay, Alabama. The rat control crew will repair the damage and rodent-proof the house, as well as non-chemically trap and remove the pest rats.
by Webmaster
Sep 14, 2023 09:03:40 am.

On the way this beautiful morning to Birmingham Alabama to do an exclusion on a customers house that’s having problems with bats. First we will seal the roofline and junctions. Second we will run ridge guard with covers the ridge cap so the bats can’t get back in. And last we will seal up the foundation of the house and screen the gables and hang a check valve so the bats can fly out then we will come back a week later to remove the check valve and deodorize our customers attic.
by Landon K.
Sep 11, 2023 07:53:01 am.

Spending this Sunday resting up for a big week ahead.
by Chad W.
Sep 10, 2023 08:32:59 am.

Happy Friday! The First Video in our Friday Double-Feature is of Squirrel Removal and Exclusion at a Mountain Brook, Alabama Home
by Webmaster
Sep 08, 2023 09:02:30 am.

Just finished a warranty QC on a Home in Valdosta Ga with Gray squirrels.
by Jason Arruda
Sep 07, 2023 03:21:40 pm.

Headed to Vestavia to for some gray squirrel quotes. Sealing a house in Birmingham for squirrels today.
by Chris Scott
Sep 07, 2023 11:06:06 am.

Roof rats gnawed a hole about the size and shape of a small egg through the wooden roof trim to get into the attic of a house in Mountain Brook, Alabama. A rat control crew from our Birmingham office is non-chemically trapping and removing the rats, as well as repairing the damage and rodent-proofing the house to prevent future infestations.
by Webmaster
Sep 06, 2023 09:29:17 am.

Our wildlife-exclusion technicians are up on the roof installing a Ridge Guard animal barrier as part of a flying squirrel removal job in Mountain Brook, Alabama. As with attic-loving animals in general, trapping and relocating flying squirrels would be pointless unless they're also sealed out of the house or commercial building.
by Webmaster
Sep 06, 2023 09:23:57 am.

An air-conditioning technician discovered that mice were gnawing on the foam insulation on a refrigerant line in the attic of a house in Mountain Brook, Alabama. A mouse control crew from our Birmingham office is heading out to the house to begin a non-chemical mouse-control and rodent-proofing job.
by Webmaster
Sep 06, 2023 08:55:36 am.

Wildlife-Exclusion Experts from our Birmingham Office Just Installed an Animal-Proof Roof Vent Cover at a Mountain Brook, Alabama Squirrel-Removal Job
by Webmaster
Sep 05, 2023 07:59:14 am.

We have a crew from our Birmingham office heading out to trap and remove raccoons from the attic of a Mountain Brook, Alabama home. They'll also be repairing the damage the raccoons did, animal-proofing the house to keep wildlife out of the attic, and replacing the attic insulation.
by Webmaster
Sep 05, 2023 07:38:52 am.

A wildlife-exclusion crew doing bat removal at a Mountain Brook, Alabama home is installing a Ridge Guard animal barrier on the peak of the roof to bat-proof the attic. A gap under the existing plastic roof ridge vent was how the bats got into the house in the first place.
by Webmaster
Sep 05, 2023 07:24:27 am.

I’m on the way to Thomaston, Ga this morning to begin a flying squirrel exclusion! Everyone stay safe and have a great week!
by Brandon C.
Sep 05, 2023 05:49:06 am.

Happy Labor Day!!! Back to work tomorrow. Got some squirrels running in attics in Tuscaloosa. Sealing a house with squirrels, mice, and snakes tomorrow. Then off to Birmingham for a rat job. Hope everyone had a good safe weekend.
by Chris Scott
Sep 04, 2023 07:16:36 pm.

We are in the mountains of Hiawassee, Ga this morning doing another Rat Exclusion to finish off our work week. Everyone have safe weekend and happy Labor Day!
by Brandon C.
Sep 02, 2023 07:29:29 am.

Headed out of Tuscaloosa, had a customer with a mouse and snake problem in their attic. On my way to Hoover to quote a house with squirrels in the attic. Then to Vestavia and Birmingham for mor squirrel quotes.
by Chris Scott
Aug 31, 2023 12:38:23 pm.

Water rot to the wooden trim over a ledge where wooden siding meets a brick foundation created a gap that allowed mice into a house in Hoover, Alabama. A mouse control crew from our Birmingham office is addressing the water problem, repairing the damage, mouse-proofing the house, and non-chemically treating the existing mouse infestation using non-toxic traps.
by Webmaster
Aug 31, 2023 07:22:25 am.

Headed to Newborn Ga today to address a bat issue.
by Chad W.
Aug 31, 2023 05:56:42 am.

All the rats have trapped, removed, and sealed out of the attic of a house in Hoover, Alabama. Rodent pest control specialists from our Birmingham office rodent-proofed the house, and used traps to catch and remove the existing rat infestation without using any poisons.
by Webmaster
Aug 30, 2023 09:20:18 am.

Technicians from our Birmingham office are busy doing bat removal and animal proofing at a house in Hoover, Alabama. The bat-exclusion work will also prevent other nuisance wildlife and rodent pests from getting into the attic.
by Webmaster
Aug 30, 2023 09:03:40 am.

This morning we're starting a squirrel removal job at a warehouse in Birmingham. Squirrels and other nuisance wildlife don't care very much about a building's purpose. We provide wildlife removal and exclusion services at commercial, educational, industrial, and governmental buildings of all kinds.
by Webmaster
Aug 30, 2023 08:30:13 am.

Severe water rot to the wooden siding made it easy for Norway rats to gnaw a fist-sized hole through the wall and into a house in Birmingham, Alabama. Non-chemical rat control at this home will begin with addressing the water problem and repairing the damage so we can rat-proof the house and eliminate the infestation without using poisons.
by Webmaster
Aug 30, 2023 08:13:31 am.

Just removed and relocated a squirrel from a funnel trap. Little buddy will find a new home, he’s not welcome in my customers house anymore
by Chad W.
Aug 30, 2023 07:19:16 am.

We have a crew in the crawl space doing Norway rat control at an Argo, Alabama home. They're sealing gap[s around the sill plate to rat-proof the house, and setting traps to catch and remove the rats already in the house without using any poisons.
by Webmaster
Aug 29, 2023 10:32:49 am.

A two-inch diameter hole in the vinyl siding where a pipe used to pass through into the house is the reason our non-chemical rodent control experts are doing mouse control at a Birmingham, Alabama home today. You can't permanently eliminate a mouse problem until the house is made rodent-proof. No way, no how.
by Webmaster
Aug 29, 2023 09:14:06 am.

A gap about two inches wide in the soffit panel where the electrical conduit for an outdoor light fixture was passed into the house also allowed a colony of bats into an Argo, Alabama home. The bat-removal crew is sealing all the gaps to bat-proof the house, after which they'll remove the guano and replace the attic insulation.
by Webmaster
Aug 29, 2023 08:52:51 am.

We have a wildlife-exclusion crew on the roof doing bat removal at a Birmingham, Alabama home today. The plastic roof ridge vent is warped and is being replaced by a Ridge Guard animal barrier, and all of the gable vents and the eaves of the roof are being screened to keep bats and other nuisance wildlife and pests out of the attic.
by Webmaster
Aug 28, 2023 09:22:07 am.

We have a wildlife-removal crew on the roof installing a Ridge Guard animal barrier as part of a Birmingham, Alabama squirrel removal and exclusion job. The barrier replaces the plastic roof ridge vent that the squirrels chewed away, and will keep nuisance animals of all kinds out of the attic for many years to come.
by Webmaster
Aug 28, 2023 09:07:19 am.

We have a rodent pest control crew in a crawl space non-chemically rat-proofing a house in Birmingham, Alabama. The rats that already got in are being trapped and removed from the house without using any poisons.
by Webmaster
Aug 28, 2023 08:35:14 am.

Finished up an exclusion before it for too hot outside. Perks of getting up early and getting started.
by Chad W.
Aug 26, 2023 11:03:43 am.

The Second Video in Today's Triple-Feature is of Bat Removal and Exclusion in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
by Webmaster
Aug 25, 2023 08:33:20 am.

Bat exclusion in Newborn Ga. It’s going to be a hot one.
by Chad W.
Aug 25, 2023 06:25:10 am.

A wildlife damage repair crew working at a Leeds, Alabama squirrel-removal job is repairing squirrel damage to the shingles and roof sheathing around a vent pipe sticking up vertically through the roof. Water getting into the house through the hole was the first evidence the homeowners got that they had a squirrel problem in the attic.
by Webmaster
Aug 24, 2023 09:34:33 am.

Screening the gable vent was the most-important part of a Birmingham, Alabama bat removal and exclusion job. Once the last of the bats have left the attic, we'll clean up and cart away the guano and replace the attic insulation.
by Webmaster
Aug 24, 2023 09:30:16 am.

A gap barely bigger than thumb-sized between the frieze board and the brick wall will have to be sealed as part of a bat-removal job at a Leeds, Alabama home. Bats are very slender animal when their wings are pulled in. They can get into homes and commercial buildings through very small gaps.
by Webmaster
Aug 24, 2023 09:27:02 am.

Today a rodent exclusion crew from our Birmingham office is screening all the foundation vents as part of a Leeds, Alabama rat control job. The screens that come with most foundation vents are much too flimsy to keep Norway rats out of a house.
by Webmaster
Aug 24, 2023 09:20:00 am.

A plumber's decision to pass a round pipe through a square hole in a brick wall resulted in a mouse infestation at a house in Leeds, Alabama. A rodent pest control crew is sealing the gap and any others that they find to mouse-proof the house. The existing mice will be non-chemically trapped and removed without using any poisons.
by Webmaster
Aug 24, 2023 09:10:26 am.

Another Bat exclusion this morning, Bogart Ga. Then headed to Jasper Ga to check out a dead animal smell
by Chad W.
Aug 24, 2023 06:47:23 am.

Squirrels gnawed through about a foot of the water-damaged fascia and soffit panel to get into the attic of a house in Calera, Alabama. The wildlife-management crew trapping and relocating the squirrels will also address the water problem and repair the damage.
by Webmaster
Aug 23, 2023 09:08:11 am.

A gap of a little more than an inch between a warped plywood crawl space door with no frame and the concrete foundation is why we're in a crawl space doing Norway rat control at a Calera, Alabama home. Even though it's still summer, rats and other rodent pests are already starting to look for and provision their winter homes.
by Webmaster
Aug 23, 2023 08:25:14 am.

A pipe of some sort passing through a hole about half an inch larger than its diameter through a brick wall created a gap that mice used to get into a house in Calera, Alabama. A mouse control crew working out of our Birmingham office is on their way to non-chemically treat the mouse problem and rodent-proof the house.
by Webmaster
Aug 23, 2023 08:18:00 am.

A chimney cap with no screen or wildlife protection at all is being replaced with an animal-proof one as part of a Calera, Alabama bat removal and exclusion job.
by Webmaster
Aug 23, 2023 07:54:46 am.

Resting up for another full week of critter ridding.
by Chad W.
Aug 20, 2023 06:11:58 pm.

Heavy stains on the main beam were evidence of a longstanding roof rat infestation in the attic of a house in Birmingham, Alabama. One of our rodent pest control teams is in the attic setting traps and rodent-proofing the roof to non-chemically eliminate the rat problem.
by Webmaster
Aug 20, 2023 10:18:03 am.

A gap of about an inch between the irregular surface of the stone chimney and the flange of the steel chimney cap is the reason a house in Vestavia, Alabama needs bats removed from the attic. Bats are very slender animals who can get into homes through very small gaps, making bat-exclusion very detailed and challenging work.
by Webmaster
Aug 20, 2023 09:03:16 am.

Bat Exclusion in Tyrone Ga this morning.
by Chad W.
Aug 19, 2023 07:28:24 am.

There is nothing like waking up and looking forward to going to going to work. I love my job and am blessed to be in the position I’m in.
by Chad W.
Aug 19, 2023 07:28:21 am.

Bat Exclusion in Tyrone Ga this morning.
by Chad W.
Aug 19, 2023 06:47:05 am.

Headed to Birmingham to do a raccoon quote. Got another raccoon quote in irondale. Squirrels will be active soon. Call Ridacritter for your free exclusion quote.
by Chris Scott
Aug 18, 2023 09:57:39 am.

A dentist office in Stone Mountain has a dead animal smell that needs checked out this morning
by Chad W.
Aug 16, 2023 07:11:34 am.

Just got done screen a gable and putting a bat check valve on a house in Tucker Ga
by Chad W.
Aug 15, 2023 01:27:41 pm.

Gray squirrels gnawed at the wooden trim at the corner of the roof to get into the attic of a house in Bessemer, Alabama. The crew removing the squirrels from the attic will also repair the damage and animal-proof the house.
by Webmaster
Aug 15, 2023 08:23:09 am.

This morning we're starting a squirrel-removal and wildlife-exclusion job at a large house in Birmingham, Alabama. Trapping and removing squirrels from a house must be accompanied by animal-proofing for a permanent solution.
by Webmaster
Aug 15, 2023 08:13:25 am.

A gap of about two inches between the end of the drip edge and the chimney allowed roof rats into the attic of a Birmingham, Alabama home. We're setting rat traps in the attic and rodent-proofing the house to non-chemically treat the rat infestation and prevent future problems with rodent pests or nuisance animals.
by Webmaster
Aug 15, 2023 08:10:49 am.

Droppings and acorn shells in the insulation were evidence that the attic of a house in Birmingham, Alabama needed mouse control. We're setting traps to non-chemically eliminate the mouse problem, and rodent-proofing the house to prevent future pest problems.
by Webmaster
Aug 15, 2023 08:03:36 am.

All the bats have been removed from the attic of a house in Birmingham, Alabama. Actually, the bats removed themselves. A tubular one-way bat trap we temporarily installed on the gable vent prevented the bats from getting back in after they returned from their nightly feeding flight.
by Webmaster
Aug 15, 2023 08:00:02 am.

A gap at the bottom of the garage door from when a driver bumped into it allowed Norway rats into the garage of a house in Bessemer, Alabama. Rat control at this house will require that the garage door be replaced, because it's impossible to permanently eliminate a rat problem as long as rats can still get into the house.
by Webmaster
Aug 15, 2023 07:48:10 am.

On the way to meet the preacher of a church in Buford Ga this morning to do a snake quote and inspection.
by Chad W.
Aug 15, 2023 06:44:41 am.

Sun’s out in Marietta. Getting hot
by Chad W.
Aug 14, 2023 02:51:31 pm.

The Birmingham, Alabama office of Rid-A-Critter provides in Birmingham, Alabama and the the entire Metro Birmingham area including Anniston, Bessemer, Brighton, Chelsea, Fairfield, Heflin, Homewood, Hoover, Hueytown, Irondale, Jasper, Leeds, Midfield, Moody, Mountain Brook, Oxford, Pell City, Trussville, Tuscaloosa, Valdosta, Vestavia, Warrior, and their surrounding areas. We are fully licensed and insured.

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