Rodent Season Is Starting in Georgia — Is Your Attic Ready?
As the weather begins to change it’s Rodent Season in Georgia, we’re entering that time of year again—rodent and nuisance wildlife season.
When temperatures start cooling down, squirrels and rats begin looking for warm, protected places to nest. Unfortunately, your attic can look like the perfect place to call home.
And it isn’t just squirrels and rats. We also occasionally find raccoons and opossums making their way into attics, crawlspaces, and other areas of homes and commercial buildings.
It’s More Than Just Getting Out of the Cold
This time of year isn’t only about animals looking for warmth and shelter. It’s also nest-building time.
Squirrels, rats, and other nuisance wildlife may begin gathering nesting material and establishing a protected area where they can eventually have and raise their young.
Once an animal gets established inside a structure, the problem can become much more serious.
Squirrels and rats can chew wiring, damage insulation, contaminate attic areas with urine and droppings, and damage wood and other building materials. Larger wildlife such as raccoons can cause considerable damage while entering or moving around inside a structure.
That’s why simply removing an animal doesn’t necessarily solve the problem.
You need to determine how it got inside in the first place—and keep it from getting back in.
Wildlife Exclusion Season Has Already Started
At Cardinal Pest Management, we’ve been going pretty steady with Nuisance Wildlife Exclusion work for the past month, and we expect activity to continue increasing as Georgia moves into cooler weather.
Wildlife exclusion is about finding and correcting the areas animals are using—or could potentially use—to enter a structure.
Depending on the building, that can include rooflines, soffits, fascia, vents, gaps around construction, crawlspace openings, and other vulnerable areas.
The objective isn’t just to deal with the animal you hear scratching in the attic tonight.
The goal is to help keep the next one from getting inside tomorrow.
Residential and Commercial Wildlife Exclusion
Cardinal Pest Management performs nuisance wildlife exclusion work for both residential and commercial properties.
We also have references available from both commercial and residential accounts where we have completed exclusion work.
Whether you’re a homeowner hearing something moving around above the ceiling or a property manager dealing with wildlife activity at a commercial property, we can inspect the structure, identify potential entry points, and provide recommendations for correcting the problem.
Free Estimates Within 50 Miles of Rockmart, Georgia
Cardinal Pest Management offers a FREE estimate for nuisance wildlife exclusion within a 50-mile radius of Rockmart, Georgia.
Located outside our 50-mile service radius?
We can still come inspect your property. An inspection fee may apply because of the additional travel involved, but if you hire Cardinal Pest Management to perform the recommended exclusion work, we’ll waive the inspection fee.
Hearing Something in Your Attic?
Scratching, chewing, scurrying, or thumping noises shouldn’t be ignored—especially as we move into Georgia’s cooler months.
It could be a squirrel.
It could be a rat.
And sometimes that heavier noise isn’t a rodent at all—it could be a raccoon or opossum.
The sooner the entry points are identified, the sooner you can address the problem before an unwanted visitor turns your attic into its new home—or nursery.
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Contact Cardinal Pest Management today to schedule your wildlife exclusion estimate.