FREE HELP: Washington Wildlife Commission: 360-902-2200

The Washington Wildlife Commission, also known as the Washington Department of Fish & Game or the Washington 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 Bellingham with certain wildlife problems. You can reach their offices by calling 360-902-2200. Visit them at https://wdfw.wa.gov/

FREE HELP: Whatcom County Animal Control: (360) 733-2080

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

FREE HELP: Bellingham Wildlife Rehabilitation: (360) 966-8845

Bellingham 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 WHS Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at http://www.whatcomhumane.org/wildlife/

PAY SERVICE: Pathfinder Wildlife Services: 360-707-7770

Pathfinder Wildlife Services is a private wildlife control business that charges for critter removal in Bellingham. Pathfinder Wildlife Services 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 Bellingham, Washington. The first thing you can try is your local Whatcom County animal services, or the free Bellingham animal control services by calling (360) 733-2080. 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 Washington Wildlife Commission at 360-902-2200. They do free wildlife control in Bellingham and all of Washington. 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 Bellingham Wildlife Rehabilitation at (360) 966-8845 for local free animal removal and trapping, and they may help with providing free critter removal in Bellingham. 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 Bellingham 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 Pathfinder Wildlife Services at 360-707-7770. Some people wonder if animal control costs money, or how much does animal removal cost. For that, call 360-707-7770 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 Bellingham police department. Click here for Bellingham police department animal removal and for a short explanation.

Bellingham wildlife issues:

Let others do the worrying. If you can do these things and if you have an elementary knowledge of critter trapscraft, you can do them. You may live to look back on what might have been a terrifying experience as an amusing and not too unpleasant incident. All nuisance Bellingham wildlife pest control operators, except for a few camera fans, trap with the intention of humanely catching a conflict animal. In order to accomplish this, they usually carry a humane cage trap of some sort although the use of the bow and arrow is beginning to gain in popularity. These steel box traps are many and varied. When anyone attempts to point to an ideal nuisance wildlife humane cage trap, he encounters as many differences of opinion as there are different makes and critter traps of steel box traps.

Each nuisance Bellingham wildlife control professional has his favorite which he considers to be the best although he might admit that some other humane cage trap might be satisfactory for the purpose. In a sense, he is right. If he has a humane cage trap which has served him well, humanely catching his nuisance wildlife cleanly and regularly without too many missed attempts to catch a critter, he has a good nuisance wildlife humane cage trap. Place the same humane cage trap in another nuisance wildlife control professional's hands and there might be a different story. The man behind the humane cage trap has a lot to do with the humane cage trap's effectiveness. Almost any humane cage trap will throw a animal control tool which will humanely trap and relocate a conflict animal if conditions are right but consider the problems that must be overcome in designing one which will be ideal for humanely catching nuisance Bellingham wildlife under all conditions. First, we have an animal that varies in size from that of an oversized jack rabbit to that of an undersized moose. The animal control tool that would humanely trap and relocate the fawn if placed right could easily be deflected by a rib of the larger animal, while a animal control tool that would be sure to humanely trap and relocate the largest pest animal would probably make minced meat of a large portion of the smaller fawn.

Second, we see nuisance wildlife at different ranges and the animal control tool that will hit and humanely trap and relocate a conflict animal at fifty yards might not even reach a conflict animal at three hundred yards. Third, we find nuisance Bellingham wildlife in all sorts of cover. If the pest critter is in thick neighborhood where visibility is limited to less than fifty yards, we need a heavy, slow-moving animal control tool that will cut through the intervening neighborhood without being turned aside. If the pest critter is in the open at a range of three or four hundred yards, we need a fast-moving animal control tool with sufficient force, or energy, to humanely trap and relocate the pest critter at that distance.

FREE HELP: Washington Wildlife Commission: 360-902-2200
FREE HELP: Whatcom County Animal Control: (360) 733-2080
FREE HELP: Bellingham Wildlife Rehabilitation: (360) 966-8845
FREE HELP: Bellingham police department: (360) 778-8800
PAY SERVICE: Pathfinder Wildlife Services: 360-707-7770