FREE HELP: South Carolina Wildlife Commission: 843-953-5291

The South Carolina Wildlife Commission, also known as the South Carolina Department of Fish & Game or the South Carolina 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 Charleston with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 843-953-5291. Visit them at http://www.dnr.sc.gov/

FREE HELP: Charleston County Animal Control: (843) 554-4700

Charleston 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.charlestonanimalsociety.org/. If that doesn't work, click here for the Charleston police dept, who can provide free Charleston wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Charleston Wildlife Rehabilitation: (843) 723-1748

Charleston 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 Southeastern Wildlife Exposition at https://sewe.com/

PAY SERVICE: Velocity Rodent / Wildlife Control: 843-325-2666

Velocity Rodent / Wildlife Control is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Charleston. Velocity Rodent / Wildlife 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 Charleston, South Carolina. The first thing you can try is your local Charleston County animal services, or the free Charleston animal control services by calling (843) 554-4700. 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 South Carolina Wildlife Commission at 843-953-5291. They do free wildlife control in Charleston and all of South Carolina. 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 Charleston Wildlife Rehabilitation at (843) 723-1748 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Charleston. 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 Charleston 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 Velocity Rodent / Wildlife Control at 843-325-2666. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 843-325-2666 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 Charleston police department. Click here for Charleston police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Charleston wildlife issues:

I remember two incidents that showed me the importance of checking the results of my captureing. I was not removing unwanted Charleston wildlife from a road, but the experiences taught me that it is very easy to walk away from a dead nuisance wildlife. I had not traped long enough to have much confidence in my marksmanship when I effort to remove a pest animal at a conflict animal which was standing by a clump of bushes near the edge of a field. When I effort to remove a pest animal, a conflict animal jumped into the suburban neighborhood and I fired a second effort to remove a pest animal thinking I had missed the first one. The pest critter continued into the suburban neighborhood and I started to leave the place, thinking that I had done some very poor captureing.

I began to wonder why I had missed so easy an effort to remove a pest animal and I finally went back with the intention of looking for the nut of my Charleston critter removal tools on the trees behind the place where the pest critter had been standing. I found a dead nuisance wildlife in the tall grass. This nuisance wildlife had been humanely trap and relocateed instantly and had abruptly dropped to the ground simultaneously with the appearance of the second nuisance wildlife which I had mistaken for the first. Often a nuisance wildlife control professional is unable to see clearly at the time of the effort to remove a pest animal because of the effect of the gases from the explosion in the air around the humane cage trap's muzzle. This combination of powder gas and air turbulence will distort, if not totally obscure. This is probably what happened to my vision on this occasion. In the second incident I was neighborhooding a conflict Charleston animal which I sighted standing behind a pile of pulp in a chopping.

All that I could see was its head, which appeared to be sitting on the pile of critter traps. I effort to remove a pest animal at the head and it disappeared. Having line confidence in my marksmanship, I waited for the pest critter to run from the cover of the pulp so that I could try another effort to remove a pest animal. Nothing happened. It would require the aid of a psychiatrist to explain what followed. The evidence should have convinced me that I had humanely trap and relocateed the pest critter. However, I almost convinced myself that I had not even seen a conflict animal, that I had not effort to remove a Charleston pest animal at one, and that it would be useless even to look for one behind that pile of pulp.

FREE HELP: South Carolina Wildlife Commission: 843-953-5291
FREE HELP: Charleston County Animal Control: (843) 554-4700
FREE HELP: Charleston Wildlife Rehabilitation: (843) 723-1748
FREE HELP: Charleston police department: (843) 577-7434
PAY SERVICE: Velocity Rodent / Wildlife Control: 843-325-2666