Did you know there are 4 species of squirrels found in Ohio? Ohio is home to Eastern Flying squirrels, Red squirrels, Fox squirrels and Eastern gray squirrels. As we enter mid-January, squirrel activity begins to increase. Eastern Gray Squirrels may enter your soffits and attic spaces to ensure a good warm, dry and quiet environment to raise their first set of young for the year. They may have two sets of young. The young will be born in February -March and July -August, however they are not mobile for another 6-8 weeks. If squirrels choose your home, you may hear noises above your head as you sleep or in the wall behind your bed. The activity should increase as the female prepares this area for her newborn offspring. This noise would be daily and fairly consistent. The best practice would be to evict the female before the young are born inside your attic space. Getting the squirrels out while there are young is difficult unless the young are found and reunited on the outside of the home. Reuniting can be done when our technicians locate the young in the attic and can collect them and place them inside a temporary reuniting box for the female to use. The female then has the ability to collect the young from this box and move them one by one to a nearby leaf nest in a tree.
If we suspect there are offspring and we cannot locate them, we will monitor the area until all young are active and mobile, allowing us to move forward with eviction. TLC Wildlife Management can provide a real-time account of what is going on and provide the best solution for the animals and homeowners using non-lethal eviction methods and then installing permanent exclusion at the point of entry.
Our animal eviction/ exclusion services and solutions are proven and guaranteed! We provide a full interior and exterior inspection of your home and provide you with photos and solutions to prevent wildlife from using your home now and in the future. Call today to schedule your inspection and book animal removal services near you!
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