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Welcome to Rid-A-Critter Animal Control

Providing humane, non-chemical animal control throughout our service area.

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Welcome to the North Georgia office of Rid-A-Critter, Inc., one of the most well-established and best-equipped regional wildlife management companies in the region.

Rid-A-Critter was founded in 2001 to bring a fresh, environmentally enlightened, and scientific approach to nuisance animal control and wildlife management. We have grown to become one of the region's largest wildlife management companies.

We have built our reputation by providing high quality, professional, environmentally sound, and humane animal control, along with business practices that have earned us the Better Business Bureau's highest rating.

We also employ technicians who live in and know the regions that they service, but who also have plenty of backup available from the rest of the crew for those really big jobs. We service both residential and commercial accounts. No job is too big or too small, and we pride ourselves on treating every customer with the same high standards of respect and appreciation.

Rid-A-Critter services portions of Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee through our Regional Offices. You can click on the links below for more specific information about animal control in each region:

North Georgia (this site)
Metro Atlanta Region
Athens, Georgia Region
Macon, Georgia Region
Birmingham, Alabama Region

 

Our Services

With local animal-control specialists located throughout the region, we can handle any animal control job, no matter how big or how small, including:

Please contact us if the critter you need controlled isn't listed. We're a full-service animal control company and can help solve wildlife problems that don't occur frequently enough to warrant their own pages on this site.

 

The Need for Humane Wildlife Control in The South

Our region is growing. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Georgia's population is one of the fastest-growing in the country. But as the human population increases, so do conflicts between humans and wildlife.

Rapid development is causing wild animals to be displaced from their natural homes. More and more wild animals are being forced to live near human-occupied areas, creating an increased need for humane animal removal.

At Rid-A-Critter, our emphasis is on humane and ethical wildlife management. The animals were here first, after all, and they're just trying to survive by adapting to the ever-growing number of humans moving into their neighborhoods.

But it's also true that when animals and humans live closer and closer to each other, incidents of property damage and animal attacks upon humans, domestic animals and livestock increase. So, unfortunately, does the risk of zoonotic diseases like rabies, mange and other parasitic diseases, and histoplasmosis. That means that it often becomes necessary to humanely remove and relocate animals both for their benefit, as well as our own.

 

Animal Damage to Buildings

In addition to the health risks, animals and pests often cause physical damage to buildings, which ranges from nuisance-grade (such as the holes drilled by carpenter bees), to potentially devastating (such as the risk of fire created when squirrels, rats, or mice gnaw on the insulation of electrical wiring). Animal damage also can result in secondary moisture damage when animals damage shingles and flashing, allowing rain and moisture to get in to a home.

To reduce these risks and live in harmony with urbanized wildlife, we need humane, earth-friendly, professional animal control. At Rid-A-Critter, we know that wildlife management and environmental stewardship go hand in hand. We were providing "green" animal control services long before "green" became a buzz word.

Our crew of animal control professionals can humanely trap, remove, or relocate almost any nuisance animal from your home, commercial office building, church, barn, or anywhere else on your property, in accordance with all relevant federal and state laws and industry best practices.

 

About Us

Rid-A-Critter is licensed by the states of Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee to provide animal control services. We also are fully insured to protect you and your property. We provide high-quality service at reasonable cost.

Our professional technicians are carefully screened, drug-free, receive continuous, ongoing training, and live in the areas that they service. We serve both residential and commercial accounts.

Our repair check field supervisors perform unannounced Quality Assurance Inspections on active jobs to assure that our high standards are being maintained, and our employees work with the finest equipment and materials available.

We will continue to pursue perfection in all we do, and your business will be greatly appreciated and rewarded with our total efforts. We know you have choices and sincerely hope you will choose us for your animal control needs.

On behalf of our entire crew, thanks for choosing Rid-A-Critter.

 

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Gray squirrels gnawed a fist-sized hole through the miter joint of the roof trim at the end of the soffit to get into the attic of a house in Villa Rica, Georgia. The team trapping and removing the squirrels from the attic and relocating them will also repair the damage and animal-proof the roof to prevent new critter problems.
by Webmaster
Mar 30, 2023 10:00:25 am.

Gray squirrels chewed right through the sealant that a handyman used along a roof junction point at a house in Buford, Georgia. Our squirrel-removal professionals are at the house doing the job right.
by Webmaster
Mar 30, 2023 09:39:16 am.

Gray squirrels gnawed at and enlarged a knot hole in the clapboard siding until it was big enough for them to get into a house in Acworth, Georgia. Our squirrel-removal technicians are installing a funnel trap over the hole to trap the squirrels as they leave the house. This will help insure that both the young squirrels and their mom are relocated as a family.
by Webmaster
Mar 30, 2023 09:04:05 am.

Technicians from our North Georgia office are installing steel cages over the roof vents as part of an Acworth, Georgia bat-removal and wildlife-exclusion job. We use cages rather than screens because they also keep other animals, not only bats, out of the attic.
by Webmaster
Mar 30, 2023 08:59:48 am.

Beautiful day to be out and about, quoted squirrel jobs in Decatur(where it’s greater), and Riverdale, headed out to Covington for mice, back to Marietta for squirrels chewing on facia board
by Chris Collender
Mar 29, 2023 03:16:33 pm.

The cooler weather this morning was welcomed by a crew working on a roof doing bat removal in Hiawassee, Georgia. This morning they're installing a Ridge Guard animal barrier that will keep bats and other wildlife out of the attic for many years to come.
by Webmaster
Mar 29, 2023 09:51:25 am.

We are over here in Marietta working on an exclusion job. Customer had Grey Squirrels, Rats and Mice. Lots of work cut out for us today!
by Mason B.
Mar 28, 2023 10:19:20 am.

Norway rats gnawed holes through the vapor barrier over the dirt floor of the crawl space to get into a house in Suwanee, Georgia. Our rat control crew is pouring a concrete floor to rodent-proof the house.
by Webmaster
Mar 28, 2023 10:16:54 am.

The screens behind the foundation vents are corroded and falling away from the metal covers, and that's why our rodent pest control crew is doing mouse control as a Suwanee, Georgia home. Among other non-chemical mouse-exclusion measures, they're screening the outsides of the foundation vents to rodent-proof the house.
by Webmaster
Mar 28, 2023 09:39:42 am.

This morning one of our North Georgia wildlife-management crews is in an attic doing squirrel removal in Roswell, Georgia. There's a whole family of squirrels up there. They will be humanely trapped and relocated as a group.
by Webmaster
Mar 28, 2023 09:26:48 am.

Rain rain go away, in Stone Mountain today
by Chris Collender
Mar 27, 2023 11:18:39 am.

Squirrels gnawed a hole about the size of a lemon through the corner of the plywood soffit panel right behind the rain gutter to get into the attic of a house in Baldwin, Georgia. The team removing the squirrels from the attic will also repair the damage and seal the roof to make the attic animal-proof.
by Webmaster
Mar 27, 2023 09:24:54 am.

Raccoons bent about a foot of the end of the metal rain gutter down and tore off the fascia to get into a house in Baldwin, Georgia. Raccoons are very strong and very smart, which makes raccoon removal and exclusion a challenge. Raccoon Damage to the Roof of a House in Baldwin, Georgia
by Webmaster
Mar 27, 2023 09:16:07 am.

We are out here in Bent Tree, Jasper GA on a metal roof sealing up the house for Flying Squirrels.
by Mason B.
Mar 27, 2023 09:09:49 am.

A Half-Inch Gap Between the Brick Wall and the Frieze Board Explains Why this House in Norcross, Georgia Needs Bats Removed from the Attic
by Webmaster
Mar 27, 2023 08:42:23 am.

A crew is heading out to do a bat-exclusion job in Alpharetta, Georgia. Bats are removed by sealing them out of the place where they're roosting, which is typically (but not always) the attic of a house.
by Webmaster
Mar 27, 2023 08:26:22 am.

Happy Friday! Today's First Video is Of a Bat Removal and Exclusion Job in Alpharetta, Georgia
by Webmaster
Mar 24, 2023 08:47:16 am.

In Oglethorpe, Montezuma, Vienna and Byron Ga. today quoting homes Wildlife Exclusions that has Bats and squirrels.
by Jason Arruda
Mar 23, 2023 11:31:15 am.

This afternoon a crew from our North Georgia office will be starting a bat-removal and wildlife-exclusion job at a house in Temple, Georgia. Bat removal gets very busy this time of year as the bats get active and make up for slim pickings in the insect menu over the long winter.
by Webmaster
Mar 23, 2023 09:31:23 am.

Raccoons tore several sections of the weathered wooden soffit panel out of the soffit to get into the attic of a house in Hiram, Georgia. The crew trapping and removing the raccoons from the attic is also repairing the damage and animal-proofing the house.
by Webmaster
Mar 23, 2023 08:57:40 am.

On route to a trap check in Elijah to check out some traps in the attic for flying squirrels. In 2 weeks we’ve caught 14 flying squirrels at this house.
by Mason B.
Mar 23, 2023 08:51:43 am.

Bat guano dropping down from the attic onto a window sill was the first sign that a colony of bats needed to be removed from the attic of a house in Hiawassee, Georgia. Bat colonies can get quite large if left undisturbed.
by Webmaster
Mar 23, 2023 08:48:10 am.

A poorly-cut miter joint in the roof trim where it meets the shingles created a tapered gap about fingertip-high that allowed bats into the attic of a house in Gainesville, Georgia. Bat-removal experts from our North Georgia office are on their way to animal-proof the house to keep bats and other wildlife out.
by Webmaster
Mar 23, 2023 08:40:43 am.

We should be finished with an Ellijay, Georgia bat-removal job some time later this morning or early this afternoon. The bats have been sealed out of the attic, so our technicians are cleaning up the guano and replacing the insulation.
by Webmaster
Mar 23, 2023 08:32:35 am.

Technicians doing bat removal in Madison, Georgia are replacing a chewed-up plastic roof ridge vent with a steel Ridge Guard that will keep bats and other wildlife out of the attic. Some other animal chewed up the plastic ridge vent at some point, and bats seized the opportunity to get into the house.
by Webmaster
Mar 23, 2023 08:15:31 am.

Bat calls are coming in already with the mild winter in middle to south ga. Tifton, Vienna, Cordele, Zebulon, and Barnesville Ga. Just to name a few cities I’ll be today and tomorrow.
by Jason Arruda
Mar 22, 2023 12:41:29 pm.

We just finished installing a steel cage over a dome-shaped roof vent as part of a Blue Ridge, Georgia bat-removal and wildlife-exclusion job. All of our animal-proofing work is comprehensive and will keep critters of all kinds out of the attic, regardless of what the original animal problem was.
by Webmaster
Mar 22, 2023 11:26:11 am.

A wildlife-exclusion team working on a Toccoa, Georgia bat-removal job is almost finished. All the bats have been sealed out of the attic and flown away, so that part is done. Now they're cleaning up a couple of tons of guano, removing it from the attic, and hauling it away for safe and responsible disposal.
by Webmaster
Mar 22, 2023 11:23:22 am.

Our Bat-Exclusion Technicians are Replacing the Improperly-Attached Flashing at a Bowden, Georgia Bat-Removal Job
by Webmaster
Mar 22, 2023 11:05:40 am.

We have a crew on their way to bat-proof the roof of a house in Acworth, Georgia. Bat removal is accomplished by exclusion. The bats basically remove themselves, and we seal them out.
by Webmaster
Mar 22, 2023 10:33:03 am.

We’re wrestling with rats in an attic all day at this apartment building in Smyrna today
by Brandon C.
Mar 22, 2023 08:39:17 am.

A warped section of siding near the roof of the house is sticking out on one end, creating a taped cap along its bottom edge that allowed bats into a house in Snellville, Georgia. Our bat-removal crew will replace the warped siding as part of the exclusion job.
by Webmaster
Mar 21, 2023 09:49:26 am.

This morning we have wildlife technicians doing squirrel removal at a Canton, Georgia home. The squirrels on the roof didn't seem too happy when our crew showed up to catch and relocate them.
by Webmaster
Mar 21, 2023 09:35:20 am.

Squirrels chewed a hole about the size of a lemon through the roof trim between the rafters under a roof overhang to get into the attic of a house in Suwanee, Georgia. Our squirrel-removal crew is repairing the damage.
by Webmaster
Mar 21, 2023 09:32:00 am.

This morning our North Georgia wildlife-management experts are installing a metal animal barrier along the edge of the roof as part of a bat-removal job in Jasper, Georgia.
by Webmaster
Mar 21, 2023 09:22:57 am.

A crew doing bat removal in Hiram, Georgia has confirmed that all the bats are out of the attic. There was a solitary bat looking forlorn as it looked into the attic from the outside of a screen over the gable vent, but no bats inside the house. Now our crew is vacuuming up the guano and replacing the smelly, filthy attic insulation.
by Webmaster
Mar 21, 2023 09:16:58 am.

It’s freezing cold but we’re still going to seal a house and trap some squirrels this morning in Marietta
by Brandon C.
Mar 21, 2023 07:52:36 am.

Good morning, glad to back, was out 2 1/2 months cause I broke my leg, time to quote some houses
by Chris Collender
Mar 20, 2023 09:48:34 am.

On my way this rainy morning to talledega Alabama to seal up a metal roof won’t be able to screen the ridge vents today but I will be able to mount the traps and do as much work as I can. It’s builds character and a trust worthy relationship with our customer rainy or not we may not finish but we will get started then come back on a dry day to finish the job. Today I am removing and reallocating grey squirrels and mice
by Landon K.
Mar 17, 2023 02:23:54 pm.

On my way this rainy morning to talledega Alabama to seal up a metal roof won’t be able to screen the ridge vents today but I will be able to mount the traps and do as much work as I can. It’s builds character and a trust worthy relationship with our customer rainy or not we may not finish but we will get started then come back on a dry day to finish the job. Today I am removing and reallocating grey squirrels and mice
by Landon K.
Mar 17, 2023 09:11:39 am.

We’re treating a house for Carpenter Bees this morning in Marietta!
by Brandon C.
Mar 17, 2023 08:52:39 am.

On my way this rainy morning to talledega Alabama to seal up a metal roof won’t be able to screen the ridge vents today but I will be able to mount the traps and do as much work as I can. It’s builds character and a trust worthy relationship with our customer rainy or not we may not finish but we will get started then come back on a dry day to finish the job. Today I am removing and reallocating grey squirrels and mice
by Landon K.
Mar 17, 2023 08:32:16 am.

Happy Friday! First up in today's double feature is this video of an Alpharetta, Georgia Squirrel Removal Job
by Webmaster
Mar 17, 2023 08:29:04 am.

This morning we're bat-proofing the roof of a house in Ranger, Georgia. Bat removal and bat proofing are really two ways of saying the same thing because bat removal is accomplished by exclusion. We don't actively remove the bats from the attic. We just seal them out so they can't get back in when they return from feeding.
by Webmaster
Mar 16, 2023 10:11:32 am.

A wooden slat missing from the bottom of a triangular gable vent created a gap of almost three inches that allowed gray squirrels into the attic of a house in Dalton, Georgia. The crew trapping and removing the squirrels from the attic will also screen the gable vent to animal-proof the house.
by Webmaster
Mar 16, 2023 09:49:37 am.

A clothes dryer vent that was missing two out of its three louvers made it easy for Norway rats to get into a house in Alpharetta, Georgia. Rat-control technicians from our North Georgia office are replacing the vent with a rodent-proof one, and using traps to get the existing rats out of the house without using pesticides.
by Webmaster
Mar 16, 2023 09:43:14 am.

Our Wildlife-Exclusion Experts Just Finished Installing an Animal-Proof Roof Vent Cover at a Flower Branch, Georgia Bat-Removal Job
by Webmaster
Mar 16, 2023 09:31:54 am.

This morning we're installing Ridge Guard animal barriers along the roof ridges as the finishing touch to a Carrollton, Georgia squirrel-removal and wildlife-exclusion job. Squirrels can chew through cheap, plastic roof ridge vents, but Ridge Guard is guaranteed to keep them out.
by Webmaster
Mar 16, 2023 09:18:27 am.

There were no animals in the traps at a Hiram, Georgia squirrel-removal job this morning. Now that all the squirrels have been removed and relocated from the attic, our wildlife-exclusion technicians will finalize the animal-proofing part of the job.
by Webmaster
Mar 16, 2023 09:13:01 am.

Technicians from our North Georgia office are heading out to a squirrel-removal job in Temple. They're setting traps in the attic and on the roof to humanely remove the squirrels so they can be relocated before we animal-proof the house.
by Webmaster
Mar 16, 2023 09:09:43 am.

We're installing a Ridge Guard wildlife barrier as part of a Cumming, Georgia bat-removal and wildlife-exclusion job. The tough steel barrier will keep nuisance animals and rodent pests of all kind out of the attic.
by Webmaster
Mar 16, 2023 09:05:42 am.

Today a crew from our North Georgia office is starting a bat-removal job in Hiram, Georgia. The first step will be installing check valve traps to allow the bats to get out of the attic so we can bat-proof the house. It's important not to seal wildlife into buildings.
by Webmaster
Mar 16, 2023 09:03:13 am.

We should be done with a Temple, Georgia bat-removal and wildlife-proofing job some time this afternoon. There are no more bats in the attic this morning, so our animal-exclusion experts are permanently sealing the gaps to bat-proof the roof.
by Webmaster
Mar 16, 2023 08:58:38 am.

Squirrels in Lilburn Ga. Headed to Atlanta to solve a rat problem
by Chad W.
Mar 15, 2023 10:46:33 am.

We are over here in Conyers GA doing an exclusion job for Grey Squirrels. Customer has been seeing them pop in and out of their gutters for a few weeks now. Won’t be an issues anymore after today.
by Mason B.
Mar 15, 2023 10:12:23 am.

Squirrels in Lilburn Ga. Headed to Atlanta to solve a rat problem
by Chad W.
Mar 15, 2023 09:58:04 am.

All it took was a gap of about three quarters of an inch between the brick wall and the frieze board for bats to get into the attic of a house in Acworth, Georgia. Bat-removal specialists from our North Georgia office are sealing the gap to bat-proof the house.
by Webmaster
Mar 15, 2023 09:47:08 am.

Gray squirrels gnawed away about an inch of the top edge of a wooden fascia board to enlarge the existing gap in the edge of the roof and get into the attic of a house in Acworth, Georgia. Our squirrel-removal experts are working in the cold covering the gap with an animal barrier to keep squirrels and other wildlife out of the house.
by Webmaster
Mar 15, 2023 09:28:40 am.

A gap of about three quarters of an inch at the edge of the roof sheathing right behind the metal rain gutter allowed bats into the attic of a house in Jasper, Georgia. The bat-removal team is covering the gap with a metal animal barrier to prevent bats and other nuisance wildlife from getting into the attic.
by Webmaster
Mar 14, 2023 09:24:07 am.

A gap of about five eighths of an inch between the roof flashing and the wooden trim allowed bats into the attic of a house in Hiawassee, Georgia. Our bat removal and exclusion experts will install a metal wildlife barrier along the edges of the roof to bat-proof the house.
by Webmaster
Mar 14, 2023 09:17:59 am.

Gray squirrels tore through the outer covering of an insulated flexible heating duct in the attic of a house in Dawsonville, Georgia, exposing the fiberglass insulation inside the duct. Our squirrel-removal crew is inspecting the duct with a borescope to determine whether the squirrels actually got into the heating system. As cold as it is today, this was not good timing.
by Webmaster
Mar 14, 2023 08:54:55 am.

One of Our North Georgia Wildlife-Management Crews is Heading Out to Repair Water and Raccoon Damage to the Soffit of a House in Dawsonville, Georgia
by Webmaster
Mar 14, 2023 08:51:24 am.

Rodent Pest Control Technicians from our North Georgia Office are Braving the Cold Weather to Install Ridge Guard to Replace a Damaged Roof Ridge Vent at a Young Harris, Georgia Roof Rat Control Job
by Webmaster
Mar 14, 2023 08:38:42 am.

In Tifton Ga giving a quote for a commercial building for squirrels and then headed to another commercial building in Americus Ga for bats. Ending the day in Macon Ga for a residential quote for Rats. Have a good day!
by Jason Arruda
Mar 13, 2023 11:57:15 am.

Rid-A-Critter provides animal removal and animal damage repair in all of North Georgia, including Athens, Atlanta, Alpharetta, Canton, Carrollton, Cartersville, Cumming, Dacula, Doraville, Ellijay, Flowery Branch, Gainesville, Jasper, Lawrenceville, Loganville, Macon, Milton, Norcross, Rome, Roswell, Suwanee, Villa Rica, Winston, Woodstock, Young Harris, and everywhere in between.

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