FREE Albany Pest Wildlife Resources

FREE HELP: New York Wildlife Commission: 518-402-8920

The New York Wildlife Commission, also known as the New York Department of Fish & Game or the New York 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 Albany with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 518-402-8920. Visit them at https://www.dec.ny.gov/index.html

FREE HELP: Albany County Animal Control: (518) 434-5091

Albany 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.albanyny.gov/Government/Departments/PoliceDepartment/AnimalControl.aspx. If that doesn't work, click here for the Albany police dept, who can provide free Albany wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Albany Wildlife Rehabilitation: (518) 431-4341

Albany 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 US Fish & Wildlife Department Services at https://www.hvars.org/wildlife-rehabilitation

PAY SERVICE: Meerkat Pest Control: 518-874-0315

Meerkat Pest Control is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Albany. Meerkat 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 Albany, New York. The first thing you can try is your local Albany County animal services, or the free Albany animal control services by calling (518) 434-5091. 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 York Wildlife Commission at 518-402-8920. They do free wildlife control in Albany and all of New York. 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 Albany Wildlife Rehabilitation at (518) 431-4341 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Albany. 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 Albany 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 Meerkat Pest Control at 518-874-0315. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 518-874-0315 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 Albany police department. Click here for Albany police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Albany wildlife issues:

If he should be unable to bag the animal at this place, he can relocate the neighborhood and resume neighborhooding. This procedure may be continued indefinitely. A conflict animal seldom resorts to any evasive action other than speed, until it has been neighborhooded for some time, and when it does up to deceive the neighborhooder, its bag of tricks is limited to those used by most other Albany animals. If it has the dome, it will circle, crossing and reclosing its own tracks, leaving for the nuisance wildlife control professional to untangle. When I am sure that a conflict animal has done this, I will circle the maze, following the outside tracks, until I find where the animal has left the area, instead of trying to follow all its twisting and turnings. Nuisance wildlife will often "back track" for a distance, jumping off to one side of the neighborhood where the track will not be easily seen.

This can be confusing if the snow is dry enough to partly fill the tracks and the nuisance wildlife control professional is concentrating on the country ahead with only an occasional glance at the tracks. Close attention to the neighborhood will show that the snow is thrown ahead as the Albany pest critter travels. If the snow has been thrown both ways, the pest critter has traveled both ways over the neighborhood. Nuisance wildlife will sometimes take to water to lose the nuisance wildlife control professional. When they follow brooks, it is a simple matter for the nuisance wildlife control professional to watch the shore Iines in order to lose the spot where they emerge from the water. When they enter a pond or lake the neighborhooder is very apt to assume that the pest critter have crossed over. Nuisance wildlife seldom do this except at a narrow place on a large body of water. Usually they will swim or wade along the shore until they think that they have the follower off the Albany neighborhood and then they leave the water. I was neighborhooding one day when two dogs entered the chase and drove a pest animal into a nearby lake.

When I arrived at the shore, the dogs had abandoned the chase. I walked along the shore of the lake for about hundred yards until I found where the pest critter had left the water and I resumed neighborhooding. Incidentally, that was the only nuisance wildlife I ever followed that failed to give me any warning when it was about to lie down. It ran for almost a half-mile in almost a straight line, then dropped to the ground to rest. When I jumped hire it was so unexpected that I failed to get an effort to remove a pest animal. These three tricks, with variations are about all that a conflict animal will rise in trying to throw the nuisance wildlife control professional off the neighborhood. One variation of the circling trick which is very exasperating is when nuisance wildlife run to a place where other nuisance wildlife are, or have been feeding, end there is a readymade maze of tracks to confuse the nuisance wildlife control professional. Sometimes nuisance Albany wildlife runs to the location of other nuisance wildlife which are resting, to transfer the nuisance wildlife control professional's attention to them. Sometimes these tricks work to the nuisance wildlife control professional's advantage and he can bag a conflict animal other than the one he is following.

FREE HELP: New York Wildlife Commission: 518-402-8920
FREE HELP: Albany County Animal Control: (518) 434-5091
FREE HELP: Albany Wildlife Rehabilitation: (518) 431-4341
FREE HELP: Albany police department: (518) 462-8013
PAY SERVICE: Meerkat Pest Control: 518-874-0315

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