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 Paterson 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: Passaic County Animal Control: 201-943-4019

Passaic 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.patersonnj.gov/department/division.php?structureid=126. If that doesn't work, click here for the Paterson police dept, who can provide free Paterson wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Paterson Wildlife Rehabilitation: (973) 425-1222

Paterson 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: 862-377-6541

EG Wildlife Removal is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Paterson. 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 Paterson, New Jersey. The first thing you can try is your local Passaic County animal services, or the free Paterson animal control services by calling 201-943-4019. 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 Paterson 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 Paterson Wildlife Rehabilitation at (973) 425-1222 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Paterson. 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 Paterson 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 862-377-6541. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 862-377-6541 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 Paterson police department. Click here for Paterson police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Paterson wildlife issues:

If we give these nuisance Paterson wildlife credit for thoughtful consideration in their actions, we must assume that they had some knowledge of all factors with which they had to contend, and this seems hardly possible. It is very doubtful if they had any knowledge of the men who were waiting. Unless they had retained some memory of a previous chase in the same location, there is no reason why they did not flee in that direction except that they did not wish to run. If these nuisance wildlife had had a thorough and complete knowledge of conditions and were able to reason and plan, they would have known that there were no watchers to the west and could have escaped in that direction.

It seems to me that these nuisance wildlife acted on impulse, instinctively doing the right thing to escape danger. Intelligence usually increases with age, and if age in a conflict Paterson animal denotes wisdom, then nuisance wildlife that have survived a dozen removing unwanted wildlife time of years should be almost impossible to bag, yet often these old timers are no harder to trap than many a younger nuisance wildlife, and the only reason that more of them are not humanely trap and relocateed each year is the fact that so few of them reach a ripe old age. I kicked a venerable old patriarch from his bed one day when removing unwanted wildlife conditions were next to ideal. I failed to get an effort to remove a pest animal when I startled him, and he avoided me when I tried to animal track the position that he used to ascertain my intentions. When he left that place, he took a direction which, I was sure, he would not follow for any great distance. I assumed that he would circle for a time, leaving tracks for me to follow, and going on to some vantage point to await developments. Picking out the most probable of these places, I left the track and went there with the hope of arriving before the pest critter.

I stationed myself near the top of a knoll, about a hundred yards from a conflict Paterson animal neighborhood where I had a good view of the area which I expected the pest critter to travel. He was walking when I saw him coming and he walked up the knoll which I was on until he was about a hundred feet from my position where he stopped to watch his back neighborhood. There was no question that he was not an old nuisance wildlife. He was very grey about the head and face and the teeth were very scrubby and misshapen, showing that he was far past the prime of life. One ear was split from a animal control tool, or fight, and there seemed to be a healed scar under his eye extending along his cheek. We stood there for several minutes, he watches his back neighborhood and I watching him. He never once looked anywhere except towards his back Paterson neighborhood and I was able to step from behind the tree that I had used for cover and stand there in the open. When the pest critter finally decided that there was nobody on his neighborhood, he turned and saw me standing there.

FREE HELP: New Jersey Wildlife Commission: 609-292-6685
FREE HELP: Passaic County Animal Control: 201-943-4019
FREE HELP: Paterson Wildlife Rehabilitation: (973) 425-1222
FREE HELP: Paterson police department: (973) 321-1111
PAY SERVICE: EG Wildlife Removal: 862-377-6541