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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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Mice chewed around AC lines in a home in Hiawassee Georgia.
by Bin P.
Jun 01, 2023 10:19:01 am.

Doing quotes for Bat Exclusions in Douglasville this morning, then sealing a house for Bats in Ackworth! Blessed to be busy!
by Brandon C.
Jun 01, 2023 08:53:16 am.

We just caught two squirrels in one trap and removed them from the attic of an Alpharetta, Georgia home. Young squirrels like to play follow the leader, and very often they follow each other right into a trap.
by Webmaster
Jun 01, 2023 07:43:01 am.

Sealed some bee holes this morning in Blue Ridge. Just quoted a house with snake issues in Roswell. Headed home for the day
by Chad W.
May 31, 2023 04:47:42 pm.

We just removed the last of the snakes from the crawl space of a house in Snellville, Georgia. The snakes were more a symptom than the actual problem, which was rats in the crawl space. The animal-proofing we implemented to keep rats out will also keep the snakes out of the house. Besides, without the rats, they will have no reason to go in there, anyway.
by Webmaster
May 31, 2023 09:34:13 am.

A four-inch section of vinyl soffit panel fell out of the soffit right at a roof junction point and allowed raccoons into the attic of a house in Snellville, Georgia. Wildlife-removal technicians from our North Georgia office will repair the soffit, as well as trap and remove the raccoopns from the attic.
by Webmaster
May 31, 2023 09:30:44 am.

One of our Wildlife Relocation Technicians is on his Way to Check a Funnel Trap at a Snellville, Georgia Squirrel-Removal Job
by Webmaster
May 31, 2023 09:18:59 am.

A handyman attempting to seal Norway rats out of a house in Snellville, Georgia applied sealant around a heating duct with no matrix to hold it place. That allowed the rats to gnaw through the sealant and into the duct system. Don't waste your time hiring handymen for rodent pest exclusion. Very few of them know how to do it right.
by Webmaster
May 31, 2023 09:00:28 am.

Back up north this morning. Blue Ridge carpenter bees and Jasper bats.
by Chad W.
May 31, 2023 06:48:51 am.

Sold a exclusion in Gray Ga for bats now to Griffin Ga for a dead animal smell in a commercial building then to Meansville Ga for a quote for animal exclusion, possibly more bats.
by Jason Arruda
May 30, 2023 12:31:31 pm.

A four-inch diameter hole where an exhaust vent cover fell off the soffit panel right near the rain gutter downspout made it that much easier for gray squirrels to get into the attic of a house in Canton, Georgia. The squirrel removal and exclusion work at this house will include replacing the exhaust vent cover to keep squirrels and other wildlife from using the hole to get into the attic.
by Webmaster
May 30, 2023 10:04:24 am.

A gap of about half an inch between the soffit and the brick wall allowed mice to climb up the wall and through the gap into the attic of a house in Hiawassee, Georgia. Mice are much better climbers than one would think considering their small size, which make non-chemical mouse pest control very meticulous work indeed.
by Webmaster
May 30, 2023 09:35:20 am.

A homeowner just found a handful of bats hanging from the top of a gable vent in the attic of their Hiawassee, Georgia home. One of our inspectors is on his way to check out the problem and draw up a plan for bat removal and exclusion.
by Webmaster
May 30, 2023 09:25:00 am.

We’re helping a Church get rid of a squirrel problem they have in one of their Ministry houses this morning!
by Brandon C.
May 30, 2023 08:26:53 am.

We are sealing a house and trapping squirrels in the attic of this beautiful home in Alpharetta today!
by Brandon C.
May 30, 2023 08:24:56 am.

Stone Mountain this morning to check out some gray squirrel damage on a house. Then to Blue Ridge to seal some bee holes
by Chad W.
May 29, 2023 05:34:22 am.

Sealing a metal roof on Lake Oconee this morning then back to the Atlanta area to check some traps. Happy Friday
by Chad W.
May 26, 2023 06:47:18 am.

Attic full of snake skins in Alpharetta Ga this morning. Bats in Winder. Eventful day
by Chad W.
May 25, 2023 02:55:33 pm.

A wildlife-exclusion crew doing squirrel removal in Acworth, Georgia found a squirrel nest between the rafters at the eave of the roof. This is a pretty common place for gray squirrels to build their nests.
by Webmaster
May 25, 2023 10:47:01 am.

The reason a house in Alpharetta needs gray squirrels removed from the attic is a two-inch gap between the frieze board and the brick wall, that allowed the squirrels to easily get into the attic. Gaps like this usually develop because the roof settles and pushes the eaves outward.
by Webmaster
May 25, 2023 10:25:16 am.

Oglethorpe Ga customer having issues with something entering her crawlspace. Headed out to do a inspection.
by Jason Arruda
May 25, 2023 10:06:56 am.

A Foundation Vent that Crept Out a Bit from the Brick Wall is the Reason Why this House in Blue Ridge, Georgia Needs Non-Chemical Mouse Control
by Webmaster
May 25, 2023 09:48:17 am.

We’re helping a Church get rid of a squirrel problem they have in one of their Ministry houses this morning!
by Brandon C.
May 25, 2023 07:37:57 am.

Headed to Alpharetta Ga this morning quote a house with some severe squirrel damage then Winder Ga to get rid of some bats out of a house
by Chad W.
May 25, 2023 06:07:59 am.

This afternoon we'll be starting a Dahlonega, Georgia squirrel-removal and wildlife-exclusion job. Once the squirrels have been caught and relocated, we'll also replace the attic insulation and repair the damage that they did.
by Webmaster
May 24, 2023 11:39:52 am.

Squirrels gnawed a hole about the size of a pear through the corner of the wooden soffit panel right behind the rain gutter to get into the attic of a house in Jasper, Georgia. The crew trapping and removing the squirrels from the attic will also repair the damage and animal-proof the house.
by Webmaster
May 24, 2023 11:36:43 am.

The air-conditioning installer cut away enough of the foundation vent lattice to create a gap about four inches high by three inches wide that he passed the pipes through. Unfortunately, the gap also allowed Norway rats into the Jasper, Georgia home. We have a rat control crew at the house screening the vents to keep the rodents out.
by Webmaster
May 24, 2023 11:22:34 am.

A hole in a concrete foundation wall about two inches across where a pipe used to pass through allowed Norway rats into a house in Dahlonega, Georgia. The stains on the concrete under the hole told us that this house has needed rat control for a long time.
by Webmaster
May 24, 2023 11:17:25 am.

Raccoons used the gap formed by a broken piece of siding on the chimney enclosure where the overhang of the roof meets it to get into a house in Jasper, Georgia. We'll repair the siding as part of the raccoon-removal job.
by Webmaster
May 24, 2023 11:14:21 am.

Raccoons chewed the edges of a few feet of the shingles getting into the attic of a house in Dahlonega, Georgia. The wildlife-management technicians trapping and removing the raccoons from the attic will also repair the damage they did and animal-proof the house.
by Webmaster
May 24, 2023 11:08:22 am.

Critter truck getting maintenance then it’s off to Gray Ga for noises in the attic.
by Jason Arruda
May 24, 2023 10:23:13 am.

Headed to Covington Ga this morning to quote a rat infestation. Then to Social Circle Ga to look at a house on a church property that has squirrels.
by Chad W.
May 24, 2023 06:06:53 am.

Our North Georgia wildlife-exclusion specialists are installing a metal animal barrier along the edges of the roof as part of a Rome, Georgia squirrel-removal and animal-proofing job. Most houses have construction gaps between the roof sheathing and the fascia, and most squirrels know about them. They learn about them in squirrel kindergarten.
by Webmaster
May 23, 2023 10:50:03 am.

Our wildlife-exclusion professionals are installing a Ridge Guard animal barrier on the roof peaks as part of a Young Harris, Georgia flying squirrel removal and animal-proofing job. The flyers gnawed right through the old plastic roof roof ridge vents to get into the attic.
by Webmaster
May 23, 2023 10:41:17 am.

Do you want to know why we have a team of rodent exterminators doing mouse control in Young Harris, Georgia today? Okay, I'll tell you. It's because a gap around an insulated air-conditioning line where it passes through a hole in the cinder block foundation allowed the mice into the house.
by Webmaster
May 23, 2023 10:28:53 am.

A team of rodent pest control professionals doing mouse control at a Big Canoe, Georgia home is screening all the foundation vents to mouse-proof the house. The existing screens behind the vent covers are pretty much rotted away, which is how the mice got into the house in the first place.
by Webmaster
May 23, 2023 10:24:16 am.

Zebulon, Thomaston, Butler, Ellaville, Americus, Albany and Moultrie Ga cities I’ll be today quoting wildlife removal services.
by Jason Arruda
May 23, 2023 10:22:46 am.

A rodent pest control crew doing mouse control in Rome, Georgia is reinstalling the crawl space door to mouse-proof the house. The door has a fingertip-sized gap along the hinge side because the hinges were installed improperly, which allowed the mice into crawl space.
by Webmaster
May 23, 2023 10:20:47 am.

Blue Ridge Ga this morning to treat some carpenter bee holes then headed to the Atlanta area to check some traps and quote a few jobs
by Chad W.
May 23, 2023 05:59:36 am.

A gap about two inches high between two layers of shingles at the peak of the roof is the reason our wildlife-management technicians are doing squirrel removal at a Hiawassee, Georgia home this morning.
by Webmaster
May 22, 2023 10:02:56 am.

Greasy stains around a gap in the wooden siding at a roof junction made it easy to tell how roof rats were getting into a house in Alpharetta, Georgia. The rat control crew is repairing the damage and sealing the house to non-chemically treat the rat problem and prevent future infestations with rodent pests.
by Webmaster
May 22, 2023 09:58:18 am.

A pile of scat in the insulation was all the evidence we needed of raccoons that needed to be trapped and removed from the attic of a house in Alpharetta, Georgia. The insulation itself will also have to be replaced, of course.
by Webmaster
May 22, 2023 09:34:38 am.

A sloppy, tapered cut about eight inches wide in the end of the roof flashing left a triangular gap between the flashing and the sheathing that allowed gray squirrels into a house in Young Harris, Georgia. The squirrel-removal crew is replacing the flashing with a metal animal barrier to prevent squirrels and other wildlife from getting into the attic.
by Webmaster
May 22, 2023 09:31:13 am.

There are two reasons why our wildlife-control technicians are removing snakes from the crawl space of a house in Young Harris, Georgia. The first is that the gaps between a row of vertical bricks allowed the snakes into the crawl space. The second is that the same gaps allowed mice into the crawl space, and the snakes followed the mice to eat them.
by Webmaster
May 22, 2023 09:27:37 am.

Bats are flying in trussville heading to give some customers an exclusion quote. Raccoons in an attic in Tuscaloosa.
by Chris Scott
May 22, 2023 09:12:55 am.

We’re doing an Exclusion for Gray Squirrels in Douglasville this beautiful morning!
by Brandon C.
May 22, 2023 09:05:19 am.

Headed to a flying squirrel exclusion in Atlanta then to take some bat check valves down in Helen Ga
by Chad W.
May 22, 2023 06:08:44 am.

Raccoon traps set in Atlanta.
by Chad W.
May 19, 2023 03:04:57 pm.

We’re headed out to treat/seal carpenter bee holes at a few houses this beautiful morning!
by Brandon C.
May 19, 2023 07:07:49 am.

Headed to downtown Atlanta this morning to trap a raccoon that’s been breaking into a house then to be Athens area to take some traps down. Happy Friday
by Chad W.
May 19, 2023 06:12:53 am.

Exclusion sold in Gray Ga. Going to be another satisfied customer.
by Jason Arruda
May 18, 2023 04:00:20 pm.

Was able to squeeze another customer in today in Gray Ga. Issue is bats.
by Jason Arruda
May 18, 2023 02:58:01 pm.

Water damage to the wooden roof trim made it that much easier for gray squirrels to get into the attic of a house in Woodstock, Georgia. The wildlife-removal crew doing the squirrel removal and animal proofing will also find and fix the water problem and repair the damage.
by Webmaster
May 18, 2023 10:54:24 am.

The reason we have a wildlife-control crew in the attic doing squirrel removal at a Suwanee, Georgia home is because a gap of about an inch and a half between the frieze board and the brick wall allowed the squirrels into the attic. This often happens as a roof settles over time and pushes the eaves outward.
by Webmaster
May 18, 2023 10:40:48 am.

In Tyrone Ga on a few exclusion quotes, then to Fayetteville Ga. Bats, squirrels and attic noise
by Jason Arruda
May 18, 2023 10:01:35 am.

Customer stated “Chad, I have bats in the belfry”. How could I not go check this out ?
by Chad W.
May 18, 2023 06:16:33 am.

Caught 6 mice at a house in Braselton Ga. Happy customers
by Chad W.
May 17, 2023 05:41:33 pm.

Carpenter Bee quote in Ellijay Ga then bats in Monroe Ga
by Chad W.
May 17, 2023 10:08:18 am.

A crew doing squirrel removal in Tallapoosa, Georgia are repairing holes that the squirrels gnawed through the fascia to get into the attic. The squirrels themselves have already been humanely trapped and relocated to the forest.
by Webmaster
May 17, 2023 09:39:06 am.

Sealed a house in Atlanta this morning then another in Duluth this afternoon. Chad 2. Rats 0
by Chad W.
May 16, 2023 04:23:31 pm.

Sealing another rental home for a repeat customer in Douglasville this morning
by Brandon C.
May 16, 2023 07:25:54 am.

A handyman left a gap of about two inches in the drip edge that he installed as an animal barrier to keep squirrels out of the attic of a house in Big Canoe, Georgia. The squirrels found the gap and used it to get back into the house. A wildlife-exclusion crew from our North Georgia office is heading out there to trap and remove the squirrels and properly animal-proof the house.
by Webmaster
May 16, 2023 05:29:04 am.

The bottom four inches of the wooden garage door frame are basically gone because of water rot, which allowed Norway rats into a house in Jasper, Georgia. Non-chemical rat control at this house will begin with addressing the water problem and repairing the door frame to seal rats and other rodent pests out of the house. The existing rats will be treated by trapping and removal.
by Webmaster
May 16, 2023 05:06:55 am.

A gap of about two inches between the wooden frieze board and the brick wall was all the space that gray squirrels needed to get into the attic of a house in Jasper, Georgia. Our wildlife-exclusion specialists will seal the gap to animal-proof the house, as well as trap and remove the existing squirrels from the attic.
by Webmaster
May 16, 2023 05:02:14 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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