FREE San Diego Pest Wildlife Resources

FREE HELP: California Wildlife Commission: (916) 653-4899

The California Wildlife Commission, also known as the California Department of Fish & Game or the California 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 San Diego with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling (916) 653-4899. Visit them at http://www.fgc.ca.gov/

FREE HELP: San Diego County Animal Control: (619) 236-4250

San Diego 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.sdhumane.org/about-us/contact-us/. If that doesn't work, click here for the San Diego police dept, who can provide free San Diego wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: San Diego Wildlife Rehabilitation: (619) 225-9453

San Diego 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 Project Wildlife at https://www.sdhumane.org/programs/project-wildlife/

PAY SERVICE: The Wildlife Specialist: 858-257-3420

The Wildlife Specialist is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in San Diego. The Wildlife Specialist 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 San Diego, California. The first thing you can try is your local San Diego County animal services, or the free San Diego animal control services by calling (619) 236-4250. 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 California Wildlife Commission at (916) 653-4899. They do free wildlife control in San Diego and all of California. 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 San Diego Wildlife Rehabilitation at (619) 225-9453 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in San Diego. 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 San Diego 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 The Wildlife Specialist at 858-257-3420. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 858-257-3420 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 San Diego police department. Click here for San Diego police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

San Diego wildlife issues:

My companion failed to see the pest critter immediately, but I had my pest exclusion device mounted and began firing straight at the pest critter. Much to my dismay, the pest animal was in the thicket before I even raised my pest exclusion device. It kept on running, putting more trees and neighborhood between us. I pumped five critter removal tools into the immediate vicinity of that handsome pest animal but to no avail. The trees were thick and protecting, and the urban wild San Diego animal was smart enough to stay right in their midst. "I didn't even see the pest critter after he started off," my partner confessed. "Too many trees and neighborhood." I did see the pest critter and I did get in some captureing; but except for the target practice, it was a waste of time and pest control supplies. In addition to its senses of smell, hearing, and vision, the urban wild animal is also a born skulker and hider.

In much of the range an alerted urban wild animal can avoid pest control operators at will. A pest animal will prefer to hide out, rather than to make a run for it when pest control operators are present. Many a urban wild animal will just lie low and let the nuisance San Diego wildlife control professional pass; or detect the presence of the nimrod and keep out of sight and sound of the man approaching. This characteristic of lying low has been well developed and is quite marked. One trait that often works to the downfall of the urban wild animal is its sense of curiosity. However, this is not one to bank on. This inquisitiveness mostly results from the urban wild animal's inability to identify the person or animal at a distance because of its limited vision. In such an instance the urban wild animal may seem puzzled for a time; but when it does identify the object as a predator it will usually depart with speed. Not all activity in the suburban neighborhood is going to frighten a urban wild animal, and this applies even to a watchful and wily pest animal. Nuisance wildlife like to see what is happening in their bailiwick and will sometimes approach very close to the scene of action.

This may happen when a crew is cutting timber or pulpcritter traps in a conflict animal area, or when pest control operators are cutting critter traps for their pest control headquarters. To illustrate this type of curiosity I like to think of the time the nuisance wildlife control professional and I were cutting firecritter traps for our removing unwanted San Diego wildlife pest control headquarters on Hay Marsh Road in the Lake Superior-Mud Creek area. We had burned a lot of fuel the first few days of nuisance wildlife time of year and needed more shortly, so gathering an axe, saw, and one pest exclusion device I started to work on a big birch deadfall back of pest control headquarters. We carved off five heavy chunks of the giant tree and decided to take a rest. Wiping my brow, and putting the saw down, I looked toward the pest control headquarters and there stood a large urban wild animal pest animal. I remember telling Ernie to turn around slowly and reach for his pest exclusion device: "There's a pest animal at the edge of the hemlocks near pest control headquarters watching us.

FREE HELP: California Wildlife Commission: (916) 653-4899
FREE HELP: San Diego County Animal Control: (619) 236-4250
FREE HELP: San Diego Wildlife Rehabilitation: (619) 225-9453
FREE HELP: San Diego police department: (619) 692-4800
PAY SERVICE: The Wildlife Specialist: 858-257-3420

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