Frontline Animal Removal’s Blog
Join us weekly for new content covering the wonderful world of nuisance animal removal and repair!
In these posts you’ll find: tips, job examples, videos, opinions, etc.
We’ve got so much to share we can’t put everything on our pages!
Enjoy and subscribe to be informed of new posts.
Window Well Skunks
Window Well Skunks For those of a certain generation, one might recall a popular Atari games of the 1980s called "Pitfall" in which Pitfall Harry (a la Indiana Jones) works his way through the jungle trying to avoid all sorts of danger. And, as this snip of an online...
Squirrel or Raccoon?
Is it a Squirrel or Raccoon? There is an opening of some shape or form that you believe may be allowing raccoons or squirrels or some other nuisance animal into your attic or other part of the house. How can you be sure it's an active entrance- that animals are...
Solve a Groundhog Problem
Trapping Groundhogs / Woodchucks We are often asked, "What is the best and easiest way to catch a groundhog?" We almost always answer by stating that successful groundhog trapping is best accomplished by putting the right trap in the right place. Easy to say...but...
Unique Problems | Unique Solutions
Unique Nuisance Animal Problems Nuisance animal removal jobs have a lot of similarities: An animal is in the house and people want them out They are removed through trapping or exclusion The area where the animals were getting in is repaired And though many jobs are...
Chimney Raccoons
Removing Chimney Dwelling Raccoons My sister called with some urgency one evening last week stating there was a raccoon on the patio. Her kids alerted her to it and, as she looked out the kitchen window, she saw it sitting atop her patio gazebo. It then climbed onto...
Pause on Bats
Ohio Law & Bats Today, May 16, is a special day when it comes to bat removal here in the State of Ohio. Why? We call it a special day because it is the first day of the period of the year when no one is allowed to make an exclusion for bats (exclusion= kick them...
Flying Squirrel: Chewing & Poohing
Pesky Flying Squirrels Say the word 'squirrel' to someone here in Northeast Ohio, and the likely picture to pop into that person's head is one of a gray or black squirrel. It's true because gray and black squirrels are visible during daylight hours and are in all our...
Water, Gutters & Squirrels
Water Damage is Invitation to Animals Nuisance animals are very opportunistic. Once they find a weak spot, they are very likely to exploit it and move right in. Water damage is a very common cause of weakness on many a home's exterior in our Akron / Canton / Kent...
Baby Time!
Baby Squirrels and Raccoons Abound It's been so rainy lately... Goodbye April showers...bring on those May flowers! We know, we know-- it's just typical springtime weather. And just as typical, we know this April to May transition is filled with baby squirrels and...