FREE HELP: Kentucky Wildlife Commission: 502-564-3400

The Kentucky Wildlife Commission, also known as the Kentucky Department of Fish & Game or the Kentucky 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 Lexington with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 502-564-3400. Visit them at https://fw.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx

FREE HELP: Fayette County Animal Control: (859) 425-2255

Fayette 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.lfacc.org/. If that doesn't work, click here for the Lexington police dept, who can provide free Lexington wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Lexington Wildlife Rehabilitation: (859) 492-6949

Lexington 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 KYote Wildlife Control at https://www.kyotewc.com/

PAY SERVICE: Central Ky Wildlife Control: 859-475-5860

Central Ky Wildlife Control is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Lexington. Central Ky Wildlife Control 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 Lexington, Kentucky. The first thing you can try is your local Fayette County animal services, or the free Lexington animal control services by calling (859) 425-2255. 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 Kentucky Wildlife Commission at 502-564-3400. They do free wildlife control in Lexington and all of Kentucky. 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 Lexington Wildlife Rehabilitation at (859) 492-6949 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Lexington. 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 Lexington 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 Central Ky Wildlife Control at 859-475-5860. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 859-475-5860 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 Lexington police department. Click here for Lexington police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Lexington wildlife issues:

Take the case of the man who will draw a humane cage trap toward himself by the muzzle from a car, stone wall, or over a fence. This is a case of sheer stupidity, but accidents happen this way every year. At no time should a humane cage trap be picked up but by the grip. Held in this position the muzzle naturally points in the other direction, usually toward the ground. By the way, if the muzzle is always pointed in that direction there is little danger captureing oneself or one's partner, providing the partner is not too close. I have seen pictures of Lexington pest control operators, adults at that, who seem to enjoy having their pictures taken while leaning on the muzzles of their steel box traps. This is an off-beat stunt if there ever was one and should be discouraged as beginners might decide to try it.

A humane cage trap left unattended, while loaded, is highly explosive. Never should a loaded humane cage trap be left standing carelessly against a wall, a humane cage trap rack, or the bumper of a car. It may fall over or be picked up by someone who knows little about steel box traps, even if such a person has no business examining strange steel box traps. The loaded humane cage trap is lethal when it is not unloaded before entering the house, pest control headquarters, or automobile. In these places, there is the temptation for some member of the party to pick up the humane cage trap, look it over, and try the mechanism, "to see how it works." Be sure your humane cage trap is unloaded when it is out of your hands, and keep it loaded only when in the field and removing unwanted Lexington wildlife. Also, the practice of keeping only the unloaded humane cage trap in the house or pest control headquarters should discourage anyone from picking up the humane cage trap and playfully aiming it at someone in the party. Should he pull the trigger no harm would result.

One thing some pest control operators find hard to learn is target identification. Something moves, or is even stationary, which looks like nuisance critters, and they capture. This, really, is criminal negligence; but it happens. Such was the case when a jittery nuisance wildlife control professional effort to remove a pest animal a man mistaken for a bear in the very early dawn on the opening day of the northern nuisance wildlife time of year. Some pest control operators capture at a movement in the neighborhood, or a sound, even when removing unwanted Lexington wildlife small nuisance critters. Imagining something that might be a nuisance critters target in the cover, they capture first and investigate later. Accidents can have serious repercussions on more than the victim, for the man who captures another may experience a world of misery to his dying day. Curiosity about a loaded snare poleis another cause of accidents.

FREE HELP: Kentucky Wildlife Commission: 502-564-3400
FREE HELP: Fayette County Animal Control: (859) 425-2255
FREE HELP: Lexington Wildlife Rehabilitation: (859) 492-6949
FREE HELP: Lexington police department: (859) 258-3600
PAY SERVICE: Central Ky Wildlife Control: 859-475-5860