Animals are usually thought of as good assets, but that opinion changes when the local wildlife decides that your home or attic isn’t just for humans. If this happens, there are a few options for animal control in Jupiter. Which ones are the best depends on the situation and on which type of animal is involved.
When the animals are rodents, “control” usually means extermination. Setting out wooden traps is a good way to eliminate a random mouse or rat, but if there is a true infestation, this method will be too inefficient to get the job done fast enough. Repeating metal traps can catch about 20 mice before they need to be emptied, but having to empty them at all is often seen as a downside. Therefore, many people use poison bait to get rid of entire colonies of mice or rats. Once the bait is put out, the rodents’ tendency to eat anything that seems edible will do the rest.
Since the animals that are most likely to invade a home are mice or rats instead of bigger species, most people will call a company like Bates Exterminating to get rid of them if they don’t want to handle the problem themselves. This can bring greater success since exterminators know how to place baits so that they will actually be eaten.
Professional animal control in Jupiter is also required for restaurants, grocery stores, and other food-sales companies. In the case of these companies, the point of such efforts is the prevention of any infestations rather than the removal of existing ones. If an infestation actually takes place, the local health department will shut the company down until it is eliminated. This makes it imperative that food companies never allow a rodent colony to get started.
If the animals are along the lines of raccoons, squirrels, skunks, or other wildlife that isn’t on everybody’s kill list, animal control in Jupiter involves calling a private company to come and get rid of them. Such companies usually use box traps to catch them alive since it is undesirable to have large carcasses littering a home or property. Then, the animals are taken away. What is done after that depends on the company involved. Humane destruction of captured pest animals is fairly standard, and for species that can become invasive, this is often a good idea.
