The Villages

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GET RID OF WILDLIFE IN THE VILLAGES

The Villages has many services for wildlife removal. The county’s furry residents can be found in the county’s 56 square miles. The local wildlife sometimes likes to infest your home and property. This can be a major nuisance for you and your family

Wildlife Removal

We can safely remove any nuisance on your property. We can remove bats, birds, raccoons, rats, snakes, and many more pests. These pests can disrupt your way of life and it is important to remove them as soon as possible. Animals build nests in attics, eat food in your garden, harass your pets, and may even use your pool as a water source

Opossums

Opossums are also a common nuisance in The Villages. These critters are a threat to your pets and will attack you if they feel threatened by you. Opossums will eat food from your garbage cans, dog bowls, and cat bowls. Opossums will drink water from your pool in the backyard.

An opossum trap is the only way to remove an opossum from your home. We can set traps around your property then properly release the opossums once caught.

Rats

Rats are some of the most common rodents in the country. Black rats, wood rats, Norway rats, and roof rats are the most common species in The Villages. You have likely encountered them at some point in your home.

The best method of solving your problem with rats is setting traps inside your house. In addition, we can seal access to other rooms in the house to prevent rats from moving from one spot to another. This prevention stops rats from possibly starting a new nest in another space in your home.

Rodent in garden

Rodent Control Process

For most people, gardening is more than just a past-time activity. Asides from being able to grow healthy vitamin and nutrient-rich produce for you and your family, the process itself of pulling out weed, watering, and watching your efforts pay off provides a feeling of reward and accomplishment.

The first step for effective rodent control is to ensure that they have no way of entering your home. This means a full inspection of your home is required. All entry holes must be sealed with non- chewable steel. Rodents usually have many entry points because they can wiggle their way through tiny gaps. Rats can go in a hole as small as 1/2 inch, while a mouse can squeeze through a hole as small as 1/4 inch. Because of their usually high population, it is futile to attempt rat trapping before sealing entry points, others will just get right in. The root of the problem must first be addressed. Common rodent entry locations include:

  • Overlapping and tiled roofs.
  • Broken sewers connected to the main sanitary sewer and toilets.
  • Space between roof jacks and vent pipes.
  • Crawl holes with a badly fit lid.

Due to the experience needed and complexity involved in effectively identifying and sealing potential entry points, it is best to involve the service of a pest management professional.

Believe it or not, food is arguably the main attractant for rats. Most homeowners leave food indiscriminately in their yard – and they become surprised when rats find a way into their garden.

Here are some things to implement right now:

Remove bowls of pet food or water at night.
Ensure you sweep seed crumbs from underneath your birdfeeder.
Pick up fallen leaves, vegetables, and fruits from your garden.
Fix dripping taps in your property.
Secure drains and add baffles to drainpipes.

Compost bins help to turn organic waste into nutrient-rich compost over time. But when you begin to add food scraps, animal waste, and the likes, don’t be surprised when rats colonize your compost. 

For starters, ensure that you watch what you put into your compost bin. Try to make use of a rat-proof compost bin. And make sure you keep an eye out on your compost area. 

If you know anything about rats, you probably know that they hate to be seen. That’s why they rely on tall shrubs, abandoned objects, and so on to conceal their identity as they move around. 

To make them uncomfortable in your garden, you must ensure there are no hiding spots there.

Here are some of what you can do:

  1. Ensure you trim your lawn regularly. 
  2. Remove fallen leaves and other debris in your garden from time to time. 
  3. Remove abandoned objects from your yard. 
  4. Remove wood piles from your yard.
  5. Move things around in your yard and garden. Rats are neophobic, so they hate disruptions to their territories. 

There are a lot of options when it comes to keeping rats out of your garden. 

You might try planting these around your yard and garden to keep mice and rats away: amaryllis, lavender, daffodils, alliums, catnip, elderberry, euphorbias, and wormwood. 

Rats also find essential oils with strong odors – such as cinnamon oil, pine oil, and peppermint oil – offensive. Cloves, ammonia, and cayenne pepper may also keep rats away. 

While you shouldn’t get a dog or cat for the sole purpose of catching rats, having a pet can help deter these nuisance rodents from your garden. Hence, having one is a good idea. 

  • Trapping

For rats persistently wreaking havoc in your garden, trapping might be the most suited alternative. Snap traps are best used to killing rats. But effectively trapping rats requires an adequate understanding of rat behavior. That’s why getting professionals like A+ Animal Solutions involved is usually the best way to go. 

Wrap Up

Rats in the garden can wreak an irrevocable amount of damage within a short time. That’s why denying them access in the first place is your best bet to avoid their troubles. A+ Animal Solutions can help you implement a rat prevention strategy guaranteed to keep these pesky critters out for good. 

After sealing the entry points, rodent control is the next step. The most important thing to note is that using poison is an ineffective and inhumane way to kill rats and mice. Poison seldom kills all of them, especially if entry points have not been sealed. Moreover, poison leaves dead rats rotting away in your attic, walls, and other hidden locations, emitting foul smells. Trying to locate dead rodents can then be problematic.

Similarly, glue traps are highly inhumane, inflicting great torture to rodents before they die. The permanent industrial adhesive on glue traps immobilizes any rodent unfortunate to step on it. After struggling to get off it for hours or even days, they eventually die of starvation, exposure, or suffocation.

The two humane ways to eliminate rodents include:

These traps humanely kill the rodent, usually in a relatively short amount of time. Furthermore, because these devices retain the dead animal, it is very easy to locate it and dispose of properly.

– One-Way Exclusion Funnels:

This method provides a way to successfully exclude rodents from your house without killing them. It works by sealing all entry points into your property except one. This is where the exclusion funnel is installed. Once a rodent leaves through that hole, it’s impossible to get back in. One major drawback is that you might have to wait a long time for all the rodents to leave. However, the greatest disadvantage is if a female leaves her pups and is unable to get back in. The
pups are likely to die and you have to deal with the foul smell that will ensue.

Therefore, snap or electric traps are the most effective in dealing with a rodent infestation. Setting traps is an art that requires expertise. This is why it is advised to seek professional help when dealing with rodent removal.

After all the rodents have been removed, the infected spaces must be decontaminated. This is because their droppings, urine, hair, and nesting materials are breeding grounds for bacteria that can eventually cause diseases like Salmonella or Leptospirosis. Moreover, you want to prevent a situation where bugs and cockroaches will be attracted to these remnants. Also, all structural damages should be repaired. This includes chewed woods, electrical wires, pipelines, insulation, and ducts.

Conclusion
The best way to ensure effective rodent control is by discouraging them from your property in the first place. This involves keeping good hygiene by eliminating food and water supplies and sealing all potential entry holes. In a case where all this fails, snap and electric traps are great ways to eliminate rodents if done correctly.


Rats are among the most dangerous pests to have in your home: they can cause immense structural damage and they carry deadly diseases everywhere they go. To add insult to injury, rats multiply at a breakneck rate, bearing as many as 1000 offspring in a year. For this reason, dealing with a rat problem as soon as it manifests is crucial. Signs of a rat infestation, however, are not always obvious because rats only need a hole around half an inch (1.27 cm) wide to access your home. Because of this, letting a professional, such as our wildlife control specialists at A+ Animal Solutions inspect your house for rat damage on a regular basis should become a regular part of your home-owning duties: an infestation caught and treated early can prevent both structural damage and disease from reaching you and your loved ones.

To begin, rats chew a lot: their teeth grow at a rate of 4.5-5.5 inches (11-14 cm) per year, meaning that they need to chew things constantly to keep their teeth at bay. In a home, this can manifest as drywall, insulation, and wiring damage. Chewed wires constitute a major fire risk, and are responsible for about a quarter of all electrical fires. Additionally, rats also chew soft materials like clothes, fabric, cardboard, and magazines for their nests, which in addition to causing damage to your property, poses a fire risk by providing kindling for any ensuing fire. However, the worst damage that rats can deal with their teeth comes when they chew on gas pipes: their sharp teeth can pierce right through the pipes, leading to gas leaks and potentially either gas poisoning or a gas explosion.

As rats scour your home for food, they will drop urine and waste everywhere they go, and worst of all, because they are specifically scavenging for food, this waste is likely to make its way to—and contaminate—your pantry. This is especially concerning considering that rats will also burrow through packaging to get your food, exposing you to a wide host of diseases including:

Salmonellosis
Hantavirus (a particularly nasty disease that kills half the people it infects)
Plague
Rat-bite fever
Leptospirosis
Arenavirus-induced diseases
Listeria
Toxoplasma gondii
Rat lungworm
In addition, droppings also attracts cockroaches and emits a pheromone attracting other rats, exposing you to cockroach-borne diseases and the terrifying prospect of cockroaches burrowing into your ears. To make matters worse, rat urine can soak into floorboards and other solid structures, weakening them and possibly causing floors to cave in.

Further still, in their search for food, rats are likely to deploy their sharp teeth to open bags of sugar and flour, which can invite other pests, such as ants and mice.

Should a rat die anywhere inside a home, it can also cause a distinct, horrible odor, which both makes everyday life unpleasant and dangerous, especially if flies find and infest the deceased body: if the flies choose to make their way around your house after they have laid their eggs in the carcass, they risk contaminating surfaces on which you eat, rest, and work.

If you do not address the rat problem in your home swiftly enough, rats can cause more profound problems to your home. As rats are natural burrowers, they like burrowing under homes and into foundations. This can lead to foundations weakening, which can lead to a home collapsing, especially if the area surrounding the house is prone to floods—floods can easily penetrate holes burrowed by rats and as such erode foundations to the point of collapse.

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Rodent in the roof?

Don’t be fooled by their relatively small size; mice can wreak havoc on your home, contaminate food, and spread disease. Mice in your home is always bad news, no matter how you look at it. These tiny creatures are very destructive and relentless, and their scurrying can keep you awake at night.

In the United States, roof rats are one of the two most common rat species. Some species of mice may prefer high areas around your property, but they can also penetrate any part of your home. If you’re currently dealing with mice on your roof, this guide will help you achieve that. 

Common signs of roof mice infestation

  1. Mice droppings, which are black grain-like droppings that measure 3 to 6 mm long 
  2. Urine stains and odors which usually appear like brown stains 
  3. Chew and gnaw marks on electrical wiring, food packaging, edges, and other materials. 
  4. Grease stains or tracks on the walls or baseboards
  5. Scurrying sounds of rodents at night or sightings. 

The most effective way of eliminating roof rats from your home is by following the steps below;

Sanitize your property

Sanitation is one of the most effective strategies to keep mice away from your home and control current infestations.

Mice require food and water in order to survive., and they will live wherever there is food and water. Consider the following to get rid of roof rats on your property:

Instead of storing food in cardboard boxes that can be easily chewed through, store them in metal or plastic containers with secure fitting covers.

  • Remove any clutter that rats might use to build their nests, such as paper or cardboard.
  • Store dog food and other pet food in airtight containers. Do not leave food or water out for your pet overnight, to prevent mice from getting to them.
  • Grass clippings, weeds, and other unwanted vegetation should be removed from the area around your property.

 

Sanitation is only the first step towards evicting mice in the roof, but you don’t stop there because merely removing food may not actually get the mice to leave, because these animals are very resilient. Therefore, you’ll have to move on to eviction. To evict these creatures, you first have to find out the gaps and cracks in your building through which they crawl into your house. 

Mice can fit through gaps as tiny as a half-inch in homes and structures. They may also fit through incorrectly installed or ill-fitting doors, windows, air vents, or screens.

By implementing the following steps, you can drastically restrict the ease of entry for mice (and thus the population size):

  • Caulk, wood, mesh, or other appropriate materials should be used to seal any openings larger than a quarter inch.
  • Spaces around the areas where pipes enter dwellings should be sealed and storm drains with big perforations should be replaced.
  • Check that all the doors and window screens are in good working order. If necessary, use door sweeps.

Bait and eliminate them

Once you’ve determined that you have mice on the roof, bait and kill them by using powerful rodenticides. Rodents will smell the bait and return to eat it until they are poisoned. When using this method to eliminate mice, it’s important that you do it outdoors, because if done indoors, the mice will crawl into inaccessible areas of your home to die. And when this happens, it becomes very difficult to find and remove the dead animals, plus they will attract all sorts of insects to your home, and the smell can be unbearable. 

Your Trusted Partner for Wildlife Control in The Villages

As the owner of A+ Animal Solutions, I am proud to offer comprehensive wildlife control services throughout The Villages. Our dedicated team is committed to providing top-notch, humane, and effective solutions for all your wildlife problems. Here’s an overview of our service area and what we offer:

Extensive Coverage Across The Villages

The Villages is a vibrant and growing community known for its beautiful homes, recreational facilities, and scenic landscapes. We serve the entire area, ensuring that residents from all corners can benefit from our expert wildlife control services. Our service area includes, but is not limited to:

  • Village of Spanish Springs: From the bustling town square to the serene residential areas, we handle wildlife issues across this lively part of The Villages.
  • Village of Lake Sumter Landing: Known for its picturesque waterfront and vibrant community, residents trust us to protect their properties from wildlife damage.
  • Village of Brownwood: We serve this charming village, ensuring homes and businesses remain wildlife-free.
  • Village of Hacienda: Our services extend to Hacienda, where we help residents maintain safe and secure environments.
  • Village of Alhambra: Providing reliable wildlife control to the beautiful and peaceful neighborhoods of Alhambra.
  • Village of Glenbrook: Serving this well-established village, we address wildlife issues in both residential and commercial areas.
  • Village of Caroline: Known for its friendly community and beautiful landscapes, Caroline residents rely on us to keep their properties safe from wildlife.
  • Village of Duval: Offering comprehensive wildlife control solutions to the residents of Duval, ensuring homes are protected.
  • Village of Amelia: Providing expert wildlife control services to the growing community of Amelia, from residential areas to recreational facilities.

Comprehensive Wildlife Control Services

Our team at A+ Animal Solutions offers a full range of services to address any wildlife issue you may encounter in The Villages. Our services include:

1. Animal Trapping and Removal

We specialize in the safe and humane trapping and removal of various wildlife species, including:

  • Raccoons
  • Squirrels
  • Rodents
  • Bats
  • Birds
  • Opossums
  • Coyotes
  • Gophers and Moles
  • Snakes

2. Damage Repair and Exclusion

Wildlife can cause significant damage to your property. Our services include:

  • Structural Repairs: Fixing holes, cracks, and other damage caused by wildlife.
  • Entry Point Sealing: Identifying and sealing entry points to prevent future infestations.
  • Insulation Replacement: Removing and replacing contaminated or damaged insulation.

3. Decontamination and Odor Removal

Wildlife can leave behind harmful contaminants and unpleasant odors. Our decontamination and odor removal services ensure your property is clean and safe:

  • Sanitization: Thoroughly cleaning and sanitizing affected areas.
  • Deodorization: Using professional-grade deodorizers to eliminate odors.

4. Attic and Crawlspace Restoration

We restore your attic and crawlspace to their original condition, ensuring they are safe and secure:

  • Debris Removal: Removing droppings, nests, and other debris.
  • Structural Repairs: Fixing damage to beams, rafters, and other structural elements.
  • Insulation Replacement: Installing new insulation to restore energy efficiency.

Why Choose A+ Animal Solutions?

  • Expertise: Our team has extensive experience and training in humane wildlife control.
  • Local Knowledge: As a local business, we understand the unique wildlife challenges faced by residents of The Villages.
  • Customer Satisfaction: Your peace of mind is our priority. We guarantee our work and ensure you are satisfied with the results.

Contact Us Today!

If you’re dealing with a wildlife problem in The Villages, don’t hesitate to reach out. Contact A+ Animal Solutions for a free consultation and let us take care of the rest.