Call or Send a Request About an Animal in the Attic
Call, or send the form.
Calls route by ZIP to an independent operator where one covers the address; where none does, they come to Local Core Group, which runs this site.
Either way your request routes by ZIP to an independent wildlife control operator where one covers your address, and that operator settles price and timing on the call back. Where none does, it comes to Local Core Group, which runs this site.
What helps on the call
- When you hear it. Morning, night, or dusk and dawn narrows down the animal.
- Where it is loudest. Above a bedroom ceiling, inside a wall, at a vent, in the chimney.
- What you have seen outside. Bats leaving the roofline at sunset, a torn vent, a gap at the soffit.
- How long it has been going on. Timing helps judge whether young may be inside: the Forest Service says most fox squirrel births come in mid-March and July, and raccoons mate from January to March.
- Photos of droppings or the entry, if you have them. Do not sweep droppings up first.
If a bat is inside the house
Do not let it go yet. Confine it if you safely can and ask your local health department whether it should be tested. That holds whether someone woke up with it in the room, it was near a child or someone asleep or impaired, or it touched a person or a pet. The bat in the house page explains why and links to the health department lookup.
Before you call
Not sure what the animal is? The guide to telling attic animals apart lists the checks that settle it. How requests are handled is covered on the questions page, and the privacy policy explains what happens to the details you send.
Calling
Michigan Attic Animal Removal is a referral service and does no removal work itself. Whether an operator is available for your address, and when, is settled on the call.