FREE HELP: South Carolina Wildlife Commission: 803-734-3886

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 Columbia with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 803-734-3886. Visit them at http://www.dnr.sc.gov/

FREE HELP: Richland County Animal Control: (803) 776-7386 or (803) 929-6000

Richland 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://columbiasc.net/animal-services/animal-control. If that doesn't work, click here for the Columbia police dept, who can provide free Columbia wildlife control - but read my explanation.

FREE HELP: Columbia Wildlife Rehabilitation: (803) 772-3994

Columbia 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 Carolina Wildlife Care Inc at http://carolinawildlife.org/

PAY SERVICE: Terminix Service, Inc.: 803-832-2495

Terminix Service, Inc. is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Columbia. Terminix Service, Inc. 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 Columbia, South Carolina. The first thing you can try is your local Richland County animal services, or the free Columbia animal control services by calling (803) 776-7386 or (803) 929-6000. 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 803-734-3886. They do free wildlife control in Columbia 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 Columbia Wildlife Rehabilitation at (803) 772-3994 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Columbia. 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 Columbia 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 Terminix Service, Inc. at 803-832-2495. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 803-832-2495 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 Columbia police department. Click here for Columbia police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Columbia wildlife issues:

Almost any cheap compass will do this, if the carrier will only believe it, and if he has used the time to notice the direction in which he started when he left pest control headquarters at the beginning of the trap. Most removing unwanted Columbia wildlife pest control headquarterss are on a road, stream or pond that extends for some distance on each side of the pest control headquarters and it is only necessary to find this road, stream, or pond in order to find the pest control headquarters. When removing unwanted wildlife in strange territory, I usually spend a part of the first day in familiarizing myself with the territory in the immediate vicinity of the place where I am staying.

I walk the road, if there is one, for at least a half-mile in each direction from pest control headquarters, observing any outstanding framers which might serve as landmarks. I make short circles or half-circles near the Columbia pest control headquarters, noticing my unusual formations such as trees, rocks, brooks, critter traps roads, chopping or anything which might be of help in determining my exact location in relation to the pest control headquarters in case that I should become confused when returning from a trap. This procedure would not help a man that is completely lost, because when he is in that condition, even the back door of his own home is liable to be strange and unfamiliar enough to be unrecognizable. This does not seem possible, but I know from experience that a man who is merely turned around can look at familiar objects without recognizing them and even after he has recognized them, cannot believe that they are in their proper place.

I came to a neighbor's house when I was turned around, recognized the place, talked to the owner, but had to use my will power to keep from asking him when he had moved his house across the road. I knew that he had done nothing of the soft, but my mental compass was so far off that I had difficult in believing that the house was in its proper place. A neighbor of mine lived about two hundred yards south of my home. When he turned around in the suburban Columbia neighborhood and failed to return home before dark. I drove around the piece of suburban neighborhood which he had been removing unwanted Columbia wildlife to locate him. In the meantime, he found his way out of the suburban neighborhood, came to the back of my house, failed to recognize it and, instead of going south towards his own home, started off in a westerly direction and walked for about a half-mile before he came to a familiar place and was able to run to his home.

FREE HELP: South Carolina Wildlife Commission: 803-734-3886
FREE HELP: Richland County Animal Control: (803) 776-7386 or (803) 929-6000
FREE HELP: Columbia Wildlife Rehabilitation: (803) 772-3994
FREE HELP: Columbia police department: (803) 545-3500
PAY SERVICE: Terminix Service, Inc.: 803-832-2495