Omaha’s Lied Jungle is the largest indoor rain forest, and the Desert Dome covers the largest indoor desert. We have underground water reserves, botanical gardens, nature parks, and the Missouri River. With resources like these, it’s no wonder we have a wide variety of wildlife in the area.
You don’t have to go to the Henry Dooly Zoo and Aquarium or the Simmons Conservation Park to see wildlife, however. You can find them roaming your neighborhoods and in your yard, searching for food, water, and shelter. Wildlife like rats, mice, raccoons, skunks, opossums, bats, rabbits, snakes, and squirrels are a nuisance in some parts of Omaha.
Nuisance behaviors include invading your home or property, causing damage as they search for food and a place to sleep. If not dealt with quickly, damages will increase, along with the cost of repairs. We’ve seen this happen many times to homeowners and business owners. To help, we’ve created a three-step process that starts with an inspection. Inspections can be done at any time, even long before you notice damages from Omaha wildlife.
The second and third steps involve removing and excluding the animal, then repairing any damages. Below are some examples of how the process works.
Raccoons in Omaha are grey and white with black masks across their eyes and stripes on their tails. They are thieves in the night that adapt very well to urban life. Raccoons range in weight from seven to thirty-five pounds or more and, with their strong hands and claws, can climb trees, chimneys, and spouting. They also dig, rip, and tear to reach any place they can use as a den. Typical dens are under crawlspaces, chimneys, hollow trees, and storm drains. But their favorite spot is your attic.
Raccoons will rip through shingles, screens, pet doors, and any other entry point they can find to reach their den. They leave smudge marks, dig holes in your sod searching for insects and overturn food and trash storage bins. They love it when you have backyard barbecues and pool parties where scraps get left behind. Events like the Baseball World Series Championship games are hot spots too. Because raccoons eat anything from junk food to small livestock, they wreak havoc on your property searching for food.
You may want to drop the raccoons off at the Alpine Inn with their buddies where they can enjoy daily treats, but you can’t. It’s not legal. That’s why you should call our Critter Control professionals. Here’s what we can do.
