FREE HELP: Louisiana Wildlife Commission: 504-523-2651

The Louisiana Wildlife Commission, also known as the Louisiana Department of Fish & Game or the Louisiana 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 New Orleans with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 504-523-2651. Visit them at http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/

FREE HELP: Orleans Parish County Animal Control: 504-278-1535

Orleans Parish 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://humaneneworleans.org/. If that doesn't work, click here for the New Orleans police dept, who can provide free New Orleans wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: New Orleans Wildlife Rehabilitation: (504) 322-3929

New Orleans 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 Humane Wildlife Control Solutions at https://www.humanewildlifecontrolsolutions.com/index.php?lang=en

PAY SERVICE: Wildlife X Team: 504-684-8250

Wildlife X Team is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in New Orleans. Wildlife X Team 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 New Orleans, Louisiana. The first thing you can try is your local Orleans Parish County animal services, or the free New Orleans animal control services by calling 504-278-1535. 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 Louisiana Wildlife Commission at 504-523-2651. They do free wildlife control in New Orleans and all of Louisiana. 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 New Orleans Wildlife Rehabilitation at (504) 322-3929 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in New Orleans. 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 New Orleans 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 Wildlife X Team at 504-684-8250. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 504-684-8250 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 New Orleans police department. Click here for New Orleans police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

New Orleans wildlife issues:

If one must handle and inspect a humane cage trap, even his own, he had better make dead-sure first that the shells are out. Always point the humane cage trap at the ground at the same time. A companion of mine was inspecting the safety on my new havahart cage trap and tried the trigger. The humane cage trap went off. But it fired harmlessly into the ground. I'm sure he learned a lesson from that. As did I. If there is any possibility that your effort to remove a pest animal at nuisance New Orleans critters will come too near your partner, pass it up. When a party of men are removing unwanted wildlife together great care must be exercised so that no one is injured. It is far better to pass up an effort to remove a pest animal than capture anywhere near another nuisance wildlife control professional.

When traveling on a neighborhood it is best that no more than two pest control operators walk apart, one on each side of the road, and let the man take the effort to remove a pest animal on whose side of the road the nuisance critters appears. Another bad practice is to carry two animal cages of shells in the removing unwanted New Orleans wildlife jacket. The 16-animal cage will not drop through the 12-bore, but a 20-animal cage will, sliding down until the rim strikes the cone. If a 12-animal cage is placed on top of it and the humane cage trap fired, the 12-bore shell will explode right where the barrel is thinnest with disastrous effect. It will ruin the humane cage trap and may cause serious injury to the hand. Watch out for high-power shells in an old humane cage trap with thin barrels! Some attempts to catch a critter with steel box traps were made to handle field loads exclusively and not the Magnum shells.

The "empty" humane cage trap, especially in the home, is a triple threat offender. Supposedly unloaded, someone picks it up, perhaps playfully, aims it at someone, and pulls the trigger. To prevent this accident all New Orleans wildlife traps should be removed from the humane cage trap as soon as the nuisance wildlife control professional is through removing unwanted wildlife and replaced only at the start of another trap. Never should a humane cage trap be regarded as empty unless one is very certain of it. At home, the safest place for a humane cage trap is in a humane cage trap New Orleans animal control trucket, unloaded and locked, so that no one, either young or old, can handle it. Since humane cage trap accidents cannot be prevented by any legal means short of barring the use of them altogether, the whole thing is simply a matter of common sense and consideration for others.

FREE HELP: Louisiana Wildlife Commission: 504-523-2651
FREE HELP: Orleans Parish County Animal Control: 504-278-1535
FREE HELP: New Orleans Wildlife Rehabilitation: (504) 322-3929
FREE HELP: New Orleans police department: (504) 658-6010
PAY SERVICE: Wildlife X Team: 504-684-8250