FREE HELP: Nevada Wildlife Commission: (775) 688-1569

The Nevada Wildlife Commission, also known as the Nevada Department of Fish & Game or the Nevada 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 Las Vegas with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling (775) 688-1569. Visit them at http://www.ndow.org/

FREE HELP: Clark County Animal Control: (702) 455-7710

Clark 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.clarkcountynv.gov/administrative-services/animal-control/Pages/ContactUs.aspx. If that doesn't work, click here for the Las Vegas police dept, who can provide free Las Vegas wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Las Vegas Wildlife Rehabilitation: (702) 486-5127

Las Vegas 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 Nevada Department Of Wildlife at http://www.ndow.org/

PAY SERVICE: Onsite Pest Control: 702-577-2880

Onsite Pest Control is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Las Vegas. Onsite 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 Las Vegas, Nevada. The first thing you can try is your local Clark County animal services, or the free Las Vegas animal control services by calling (702) 455-7710. 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 Nevada Wildlife Commission at (775) 688-1569. They do free wildlife control in Las Vegas and all of Nevada. 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 Las Vegas Wildlife Rehabilitation at (702) 486-5127 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Las Vegas. 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 Las Vegas 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 Onsite Pest Control at 702-577-2880. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 702-577-2880 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 Las Vegas police department. Click here for Las Vegas police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Las Vegas wildlife issues:

The nuisance wildlife control professional should use his knowledge of the area to which the pest critter seems to be heading, in order to judge where the animal might be located and then animal track that area or the most promising locations in that area. Nuisance wildlife seem to be partial to low ridges when choosing bedding grounds and will often use them even when they are near well-traveled roads. Such places are almost impossible to approach from the road without detection by the Las Vegas pest critter. These locations should be approached from the opposite side, or the animal track should be made along the top of the ridge if wind or other conditions make the former approach undesirable. It is always best to try to approach any bedding area from an unexpected direction.

Another favored bedding area is in the low land near rivers, ponds, and swamps. Nuisance wildlife often pick critter trapsland meadows where the swamp grass gives them concealment. These places are difficult for the nuisance wildlife control professional to approach because of the grass and underneighborhood which cover such areas. I have found quite a few nuisance wildlife which were bedded down on points of land that jut out into lakes and ponds. The nuisance Las Vegas wildlife control professional is often tempted to save steps by crossing the base of these points instead of removing unwanted wildlife them. By doing so, he is very apt to pass up a good chance for an effort to remove a pest animal at a conflict animal. Nuisance wildlife in these places will seldom take to the water when disturbed but will try to run past the nuisance wildlife control professional to reach the main land. Points of suburban neighborhood which extend into fields, like the points of land which extend into water are often used as bedding places, but nuisance wildlife which are in these places are not restricted in their choice of an escape route.

Nuisance wildlife in these places are difficult to animal track and are a real challenge to an experienced Las Vegas animal tracker. I remember one nuisance wildlife which used such a place and I animal tracked his bed four times in one week in an attempt to bag him. He was there each time, yet I failed to get a clear effort to remove a pest animal. Each time that I jumped him, he used the same escape route, following a neighborhood for at least a quarter of a mile. So, I decided that, since I couldn't bag him alone, I would station a friend on his escape route and when I jumped him, one of us would be sure of an effort to remove a pest animal. I tried this procedure, but I underestimated the pest critter's intelligence, or its warning system, and when I startled him, he went in a northwest direction instead of northeast, as he had other times, I jumped him. I never did get that nuisance Las Vegas wildlife. As a rule, nuisance wildlife do not use the same bedding place day after day.

FREE HELP: Nevada Wildlife Commission: (775) 688-1569
FREE HELP: Clark County Animal Control: (702) 455-7710
FREE HELP: Las Vegas Wildlife Rehabilitation: (702) 486-5127
FREE HELP: Las Vegas police department: (702) 828-3347
PAY SERVICE: Onsite Pest Control: 702-577-2880