The combination of being a growing city, horse mecca, and tourist destination makes Lexington, Kentucky, a perfect target for nuisance wildlife. It’s quite common for people and wildlife to clash in urban areas close to farmland, with residents and businesses experiencing damage to structures and outdoor lawns and gardens from raccoons, rodents, opossums, squirrels, and more.
Regardless of this area losing a lot of its natural habitat to growth, nuisance animals don’t seem to care that southern hospitality is not being extended to them. Call Critter Control when you need professionals who can detect what animal is in your home, locate their whereabouts, get rid of them, repair the damage they created, and exclude them from entering your home or yard again.
Raccoons are a prevalent nuisance animal. Unafraid of people, they forage for food in residential, restaurant, hotel, and commercial trash cans, backyard gardens, and barns throughout Lexington. Their usual den can be found high up in trees where they feel safe from predators, but as their natural habitat is shrinking, attics, chimneys, barns, and sheds close to their scavenging places have become their homes of choice. Unfortunately, these smart, strong, and willful animals can create quite a lot of damage when creating a hole to gain entry to a property and once inside.
During the inspection, we determine the severity of the raccoon infestation. We look for physical evidence like footprints in or around the home, stains from raccoon feces and urine. On the exterior of the house, we look for damage like scratches on boards, broken vents and screens, ripped apart shingles, destroyed soffits, and every possible entry point.
We perform a full interior and exterior inspection and search for signs such as rub marks, guano, a strong scent of ammonia, and small openings. The most common sign is the accumulation of guano (feces).
Wildlife specialists look for signs such as chewing on, in, or around your home, small openings leading to the attic or the crawl space, droppings, and debris like nuts or nesting material. Beams, wires, pipes, and insulation may all show signs of damage from squirrels.
Lexington homeowners, business owners, and horse owners are all susceptible to rat and mouse infestations. Attics, basements, restaurants, and barns are sought out spaces for these nuisance animals to make their home. Rodents’ teeth grow throughout their lives, and they are notorious for chewing through electric wires, walls, and floors to create pathways to pantries, horse stalls, and restaurant storage areas. Rats and mice will contaminate food in pantries, and they also carry diseases including hantavirus, salmonella, and leptospirosis. They reproduce quickly and often, making it imperative to get rid of rats and mice quickly.
During a rodent inspection, we thoroughly inspect your attic and provide a complete exterior home inspection. The most common signs of rodent activity are gnaw marks, feces, rub marks, nesting material, runs in insulation material, and small entry points.
Opossums can be found inside attics and basements or outside under decks and sheds. Common signs include unique paw prints and feces. Opossums are docile and usually easy to spot.
Snakes are excellent at avoiding detection. We inspect your home for potential entry points and look for signs like snake skin and feces. Because a snake typically enters a home hunting for food, our wildlife inspector also looks for signs of a rodent infestation.
This franchise is independently licensed and operated by Christensen’s Urban Insect Solutions, Inc, dba Critter Control of Lexington.
