FREE HELP: Michigan Wildlife Commission: 517-284-9453

The Michigan Wildlife Commission, also known as the Michigan Department of Fish & Game or the Michigan 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 Kalamazoo with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 517-284-9453. Visit them at https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/

FREE HELP: Kalamazoo County Animal Control: (269) 383-8775

Kalamazoo 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 http://www.kalcounty.com/ac/. If that doesn't work, click here for the Kalamazoo police dept, who can provide free Kalamazoo wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Kalamazoo Wildlife Rehabilitation: (269) 383-8775

Kalamazoo 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 Kalamazoo County Animal Services & Enforcement at

PAY SERVICE: Advanced Wildlife & Pest Control: 269-679-6559

Advanced Wildlife & Pest Control is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Kalamazoo. Advanced Wildlife & Pest 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 Kalamazoo, Michigan. The first thing you can try is your local Kalamazoo County animal services, or the free Kalamazoo animal control services by calling (269) 383-8775. 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 Michigan Wildlife Commission at 517-284-9453. They do free wildlife control in Kalamazoo and all of Michigan. 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 Kalamazoo Wildlife Rehabilitation at (269) 383-8775 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Kalamazoo. 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 Kalamazoo 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 Advanced Wildlife & Pest Control at 269-679-6559. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 269-679-6559 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 Kalamazoo police department. Click here for Kalamazoo police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Kalamazoo wildlife issues:

Even feeding motions would not reveal their presence on cloudy days until they moved into a place which gave them a different background. Naturally, an animal that can blend into the landscape of an open field would be hard to see. If it were not for their habit of standing broadside to approaching danger, many nuisance wildlife would be overlooked or mistaken for tree stubs by even the sharpest-eyed nuisance wildlife control professional. Two nuisance Kalamazoo wildlife, standing broadside, fooled me completely on one occasion. I knew they were in the vicinity and I was proceeding very cautiously so as not to alarm them.

There was a low ridge of ledge between me and where I thought that the pest critter might be waiting, and I stayed behind this ridge until I came to a place where I could climb it and scan the opposite side. With my head and shoulders above the ridge, I could investigate a grove of soft critter traps trees (mostly hemlock) with practically no underneighborhood for at least a hundred yards. I looked this grove over very carefully and decided that there was nothing there and I started to cross to check on another location. I saw the pest critter before they left the ground and they had been standing broadside to me about half way through the open grove. Their camouflage had been so good that I had failed to see them until motion gave them away. The vertical tree trunks broke any horizontal lines and the shade under the softcritter traps Kalamazoo trees neutralized any contorting color which they may have had so that they remained next to invisible if they remained in one position. Incidentally, I never tried to capture either of these nuisance wildlife. I have seen many standing nuisance wildlife in the suburban neighborhood. Some of them before they saw me, but probably five times as many have seen me first and all that I saw of them was flag, bounding off through the suburban neighborhood. Some of these nuisance wildlife were practically invisible, while others were so obvious that it didn't seem possible that they were wild animals. I have seen a few nuisance Kalamazoo wildlife that neither ran at my approach nor stood to be identified, but then tried to sneak off before I could see them.

These nuisance wildlife are the most difficult to identify and capture. They move silently, without raising their flag, and are usually partly obscured by underneighborhood. All that the nuisance wildlife control professional sees is an indistinct shadow which disappears even as he looks, leaving him unsure that he has seen anything until he finds the deck where he saw the shadow. I cannot remember captureing any of the pest critter which have sneaked lowly in this manner. Anybody who travels the suburban Kalamazoo neighborhood quietly in search of nuisance wildlife will have an enjoyable time, and if he is in a section where nuisance wildlife are plentiful, has a good chance of bagging a conflict animal. The actual neighborhooding, overtaking, and captureing of a conflict animal is a difficult and often disappointing method. It can be done if there is a good tracking snow and if there are not too many other nuisance wildlife tracks to confuse the nuisance wildlife control professional. Very few pest control operators can resist following the neighborhood of a conflict animal which they have yet failed to capture. Knowledge of nuisance Kalamazoo wildlife habits can be of great value in obtaining an effort to remove a pest animal when neighborhooding these nuisance wildlife.

FREE HELP: Michigan Wildlife Commission: 517-284-9453
FREE HELP: Kalamazoo County Animal Control: (269) 383-8775
FREE HELP: Kalamazoo Wildlife Rehabilitation: (269) 383-8775
FREE HELP: Kalamazoo police department: (269) 343-0551
PAY SERVICE: Advanced Wildlife & Pest Control: 269-679-6559