If you were to ask any professional nuisance wildlife removal technician which job they hated the most, it would probably be removing bats from residential and commercial buildings. It's not only one of the most complicated animal removal projects, but also the most long-winded, and the one that comes with the most damage, destruction, and cleanup too.



Bat Trapping … Pointless & Impossible
You can't trap bats. Colonies are usually hundreds, perhaps even thousands of individuals strong, so trying to find a trap to first trap them all in, and then to transport them all in — SAFELY — is going to be virtually impossible. Bats are unlikely to fly right into any kind of cage trap, and they are usually too fast for netting-style traps too, especially if you're on the end of it.

Even if you could successfully trap a bat or two, or even the entire colony, you wouldn't be able to drive far enough away with them to then prevent them coming right back. Bats can quite literally migrate from one side of the world to the other, covering tens of thousands of miles, just to find a warmer place to roost for the winter months. What makes you think they won't be able to find their way home when you dump them just a few miles away, in the local woods?

Bat Poisoning … Illegal & Irresponsible
When you poison a bat, where do you think it will go? Do you think it will flap off away somewhere, dying in a place that won't ever bother you again? That's not going to be the case. The bat will probably just head right back into the roost, curl up to sleep, and then die. If the roost is in your attic, that's just where the dead animal will be. In some cases, bat colonies will push individuals out of a roost if they are displaying signs of physical illness or disease. What happens if your diseased bat ends up getting chewed by your pet dog or cat? If that poisoned bat has enough poison still left in its body to create a case of secondary poisoning, your pet is going to become quite sick. If the poison levels are that high, your pet might even die.

There isn't a registered poison to kill bats. It isn't safe to kill bats with poison, not just for your pets, but also for other wild animals, your kids, and even full-grown adults in the community too.

Bat Repellents … Expensive & Unsuccessful
We know that there are a hundred ad one “magical” products on the internet that promise to get rid of the bats in your attic, but we can assure you that almost all of them — if not all of them — will not work. You can open the hatch into the attic and shine a light up there, but the bats will just come back once you've turned the light off and shut the hatch. You can't have the light on up there all the time — that would be a total waste of electricity. Having the light on up in the attic for six months might cost you a couple of hundred dollars — around the same price that a professional would have charged to come in and sort the job out for you.

The same thought process should apply to any other electrically-powered devices, too. Machines that give off light and sound to repel bats are often mains-operated, and those that aren't will require constant battery changes. That's if you don't opt for a solar-powered device, and you know how they always come with the higher initial cost, because of all the so-called high-tech stuff that's gone into them. Oh, and those “inaudible” devices are quite frequently audible. Your neighbors' will soon let you know, don't worry.

Bat Exclusion - Perfect (For Professionals)
Now we can get to the heart of the matter — bat exclusion actually works to get rid of bats, but only when you do it at the right time of the year. Oh, and it might be illegal if you get the process wrong too. In fact, just a little mention about the legalities of bat removal while we're here; check the laws for your state before taking any action. You might find that your method of bat removal is actually unlawful and could result in legal action taken against you. Lethal force — killing bats — almost always requires permits or licenses of some form, and are usually only obtainable by an experienced operative.

You have a brief window of time in which you can get rid of bats using exclusion methods, and any other method just won't do. If you seal the building without first removing ALL bats in the colony, you're sealing bats inside, ensuring they die in there. If you use exclusion devices at the WRONG time of the year, the bats either won't leave the roost because they are hibernating, or you'll exclude mothers but lock the youngsters inside. Again, you'll have a generation of dead bats on your hands then. (And the legalities too!) Bat removal or exclusion really is a job best left to the professionals, and if you give us a call today, you'll find that the prices we quote are much cheaper than you might anticipate. It's certainly cheaper than the alternative — getting it wrong, lots of medical bills, damage to the building you live in, and perhaps a fine or two, too?

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