FREE HELP: New Jersey Wildlife Commission: 609-292-6685

The New Jersey Wildlife Commission, also known as the New Jersey Department of Fish & Game or the New Jersey 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 Jersey City with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 609-292-6685. Visit them at https://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/

FREE HELP: Hudson County Animal Control: (973) 733-6294

Hudson 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.jerseycitynj.gov/CityHall/health/animalcontrol. If that doesn't work, click here for the Jersey City police dept, who can provide free Jersey City wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Jersey City Wildlife Rehabilitation: (973) 425-1222

Jersey City 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 Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge at https://www.fws.gov/refuge/great_swamp/

PAY SERVICE: EG Wildlife Removal: 973-272-4133

EG Wildlife Removal is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Jersey City. EG Wildlife Removal 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 Jersey City, New Jersey. The first thing you can try is your local Hudson County animal services, or the free Jersey City animal control services by calling (973) 733-6294. 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 New Jersey Wildlife Commission at 609-292-6685. They do free wildlife control in Jersey City and all of New Jersey. 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 Jersey City Wildlife Rehabilitation at (973) 425-1222 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Jersey City. 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 Jersey City 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 EG Wildlife Removal at 973-272-4133. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 973-272-4133 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 Jersey City police department. Click here for Jersey City police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Jersey City wildlife issues:

I traveled this neighborhood for about two miles at a time when the pest critter were moving from the bedding grounds to the feeding area, and in this distance, I was challenged no less than eight times by pest Jersey City animals which wanted to cross the neighborhood. None of their calls were answered by other pest animals even though there must have been dozens of them within hearing distance. If this sound is a call to combat, this experience should have provided some evidence of the fact. I heard no calls made by any nuisance wildlife other than the ones which were alarmed by my presence. Many people think that when two Jersey City pest animals fight, the fight is over the possession of one doe. My observations show that this is not the rule. On one occasion I saw two pest animals fighting and there was a raccoon present as an apparently disinterested spectator.

At the scene of a few other encounters, I have seen pest animals that showed that there might have been a raccoon present but most of the fights which I have seen seem to have been the result of casual meetings and were fought without spectators. The mating time of year is the cause of the fighting, but the object that seems to be the driving of the weaker male out of an area rather than a desire for any female. I have never used any of the commercial scents to attract nuisance Jersey City wildlife, but any scent that is based on sexual attraction should be effective if properly prepared and used. The use of deodorizers to remove or disguise the man scent can do no harm, unless the substance used is something that is repulsive to nuisance wildlife. I have tried to conceal my odor by adding the odor of nuisance wildlife and I am sure that this practice has aided my removing unwanted wildlife at times. I usually add the pest critter odor by the glands that are located on the inner side of the back legs of a Jersey City raccoon and rubbing these glands on my clothing.

The odor from the hair is strong and distinctive enough to hide the human odor, and, as it is a natural nuisance wildlife odor, it is not offensive to the pest critter. While bearing this scent, I have had pest animals follow my neighborhood for long distances and nothing except lack of patience prevented me from captureing some of them. I would lay a neighborhood and then I would fail to wait long enough for them to overtake me. I am sure that it was not just a coincidence that they followed my Jersey City neighborhood, for on one occasion a pest animal followed me across an open field to within two hundred yards of my house before he decided that he was wasting his time. I had waited for him for over an hour and then I had left the stand to go to the house for something to eat. The big disadvantage in making a scent neighborhood, such as this, is that a man can never be sure that a pest animal will find and follow the neighborhood. If the nuisance wildlife control professional could know something of a conflict animal's mental ability, it would help in removing unwanted wildlife the animal.

FREE HELP: New Jersey Wildlife Commission: 609-292-6685
FREE HELP: Hudson County Animal Control: (973) 733-6294
FREE HELP: Jersey City Wildlife Rehabilitation: (973) 425-1222
FREE HELP: Jersey City police department: (201) 547-5477
PAY SERVICE: EG Wildlife Removal: 973-272-4133