Animal Control

What Dangers Wildlife Can Pose to Your Home

The most common nuisance wildlife includes rats, squirrels, opossums, raccoons, mice, pigeons, skunks, snakes, and bats. These animals are a health hazard because they carry disease-causing parasites like lice, ticks, fleas, viruses, and bacteria. Nuisance wildlife management or wildlife control involves the systematic or selective removal of certain types of wildlife that are destructive or pose a health risk.

Animals deserve a place to live, just like humans. However, since they are notorious carriers of zoonotic diseases, you should have professional animal control in Toronto to remove them from your home. Here are some of the leading carriers of diseases:

• Raccoons – Raccoons are renowned carriers of rabies, leptospirosis, raccoon roundworms and Salmonella. You may get rabies, a deadly viral disease if a rabid animal bites you. If you accidentally ingest or inhale raccoon feces, you may get raccoon roundworms. Infestation with raccoon roundworms could lead to larval migration to your central nervous system, causing damage to the brain tissues or your eyes.
• Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease acquired through coming into contact with infected urines. The common symptoms of the illness include vomiting, shivering, fever, dehydration, kidney damage, renal failure, and meningitis.
• Squirrels – Squirrels do not rank among the notorious carriers of zoonotic diseases. However, you could get an infection if you come into contact with their droppings. Squirrel droppings might carry Salmonella and leptospirosis.
• Skunks – Skunks do not carry diseases; however, they can be a real nuisance when they invade your dwelling place due to their feeding, burrowing, and defence mechanisms.
• Rats – In the Middle Ages, rats became notorious disease carriers when they caused the bubonic plague that led to the death of thousands of people in Europe. Rats can also transmit the following diseases: rat-bite fever, leptospirosis, salmonella-related illnesses, and eosinophilic meningitis.
• Bats – You might assume that bats are harmless. However, they are the leading transmitters of the rabies virus, especially in North America.
• Birds – Birds that are highly likely to invade your home are pigeons. Even if pigeons do not carry or transmit zoonotic diseases, their droppings are harmful. Pigeon droppings may host a particular virus that causes histoplasmosis.

How PestLine Can Help with Animal Control in Toronto

The prevalence of wildlife in urban areas has constantly been growing. This has cost many home and business owners thousands of dollars in repairing damages caused by wildlife. The interaction between humans and animals is also a health hazard, given that some animals are carriers or transmitters of zoonotic diseases. Animals are opportunists and will not hesitate to invade your home in search of food and warmth. At PestLine, we have an experienced team of experts who will conduct a thorough inspection of your home and take the necessary steps to remove animals from your home. For years, we have helped Toronto home and business owners to keep their premises free from animals. After removing them from your premises, we will take the proper measures to prevent them from returning.