FREE HELP: Rhode Island Wildlife Commission: 401-222-3070

The Rhode Island Wildlife Commission, also known as the Rhode Island Department of Fish & Game or the Rhode Island 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 Providence with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 401-222-3070. Visit them at http://www.dem.ri.gov/index.php

FREE HELP: Providence County Animal Control: (401) 273-0358

Providence 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 www.providenceri.gov/animal-control/. If that doesn't work, click here for the Providence police dept, who can provide free Providence wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Providence Wildlife Rehabilitation: (401) 294-6363

Providence 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 Wildlife Rehabilitators Association at https://www.riwildliferehab.org/

PAY SERVICE: Bay State Wildlife: 401-223-4430

Bay State Wildlife is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Providence. Bay State Wildlife 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 Providence, Rhode Island. The first thing you can try is your local Providence County animal services, or the free Providence animal control services by calling (401) 273-0358. 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 Rhode Island Wildlife Commission at 401-222-3070. They do free wildlife control in Providence and all of Rhode Island. 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 Providence Wildlife Rehabilitation at (401) 294-6363 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Providence. 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 Providence 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 Bay State Wildlife at 401-223-4430. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 401-223-4430 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 Providence police department. Click here for Providence police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Providence wildlife issues:

Places where nuisance wildlife neighborhoods cross roads are probably the least productive to the road nuisance wildlife control professional, because, although he might sight a conflict Providence animal, he will seldom have the time to stop and leave his car before the pest critter is out of sight in the surmounting suburban neighborhood. Feeding areas are the finest spots to find nuisance wildlife; and if the road nuisance wildlife control professional concentrates on several of these places and visits them daily at feeding time, he is almost sure to sight a conflict animal sooner or later.

For the best results, these feeding places should be in open areas so that the pest critter may be seen from a moving car and should be far enough from the road so that the act of stopping the car will not be too alarming to them. It is not necessary to confine this type of removing unwanted wildlife to the back roads, as many Providence pest control operators do, for the pest critter will often visit a choice clover patch near a well-traveled road in preference to some less palatable food in a more secluded spot. Road pest control operators are responsible for a tremendous waste of nuisance wildlife which are wounded but not recovered. Pest control operators using other methods wound nuisance wildlife, but the men who is on the ground and in the suburban neighborhood will usually know when he has wounded one and will usually make a sincere effort to find and humanely trap and relocate the animal.

On the other hand, the road nuisance wildlife control professional often captures at a conflict Providence animal which is near the suburban neighborhood and if the pest critter does not drop in is tracks, he will often assume that he has missed his effort to remove a pest animal traveling on in search of another target. This would not be so bad if these men would take the time and effort to walk to the spot where the pest critter was standing and make sure that they had missed their effort to remove a pest animal. Too many of them merely drive off without investigating. There must be some psychological reason for this reluctance to leave the road, and the car, in order to check the effect of their marksmanship. This practice certainly shows that these men lack confidence in either their captureing ability or in their humane cage trap.

FREE HELP: Rhode Island Wildlife Commission: 401-222-3070
FREE HELP: Providence County Animal Control: (401) 273-0358
FREE HELP: Providence Wildlife Rehabilitation: (401) 294-6363
FREE HELP: Providence police department: (401) 272-3121
PAY SERVICE: Bay State Wildlife: 401-223-4430