Orlando, FL Animal Control Experts

Professional Animal Control services in Orlando, FL. Dr. Critter specializes in the nuisance wildlife that gets into Central Florida homes, mostly attic rodents, raccoons, snakes, and bats and provides expert wildlife control throughout Central Florida.

Need critter control in Orlando?

Call Dr. Critter at 800-932-7287. We answer 7 AM to 11 PM, seven days a week, and most Orlando calls get a same-day visit. We take out whatever got in, whether that is squirrels in the attic, a raccoon, roof rats, a snake or an armadillo, then seal the openings it used. Sealed entries carry a lifetime warranty. The phone estimate is free, and the written quote is what you pay.

Dr. Critter is a family-owned company based in Sanford, in business since 1996, and not part of the national Critter Control franchise. A lot of people say critter control when they mean any kind of wildlife removal, and that is the work we do.

Squirrels in an Orlando attic

Squirrel removal is a roofline job. We find the hole they chewed, fit a one-way door so they can leave but not get back in, check for young, and then seal the house with material they cannot chew through. The squirrel guide covers the signs, and squirrel removal across Orange County covers the rest of the county.

Why Choose Dr. Critter for Animal Control in Orlando?

Who comes out to an Orlando call

Steve DeMoor, who most customers know as Dr. Critter, founded the company and has handled Central Florida wildlife since 1996. Sam handles inspections across Orlando and the Seminole County corridor: naming the animal and mapping the way it got in before any trap goes up. You can ask for either of them by name when you book.

We work out of Sanford, north of Orlando, and cover the whole city and the rest of Orange County along with Seminole, Osceola, Volusia and Brevard. The phones are answered from 7 AM to 11 PM, seven days a week, and most Orlando calls get a visit the same day: 800-932-7287.

About the license question: there is no state trapper license number to show you, because the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says it does not license nuisance wildlife trappers. What FWC keeps is a voluntary directory of nuisance wildlife control operators, which we are registered in, and the rules that actually govern the work are FAC 68A-4.001 and 68A-9.010.

• Emergency Response 7 AM–11 PM - Seven days a week, including weekends and holidays
• Insured, and registered with FWC - as a nuisance wildlife control operator
• Lifetime Warranty - We guarantee our work
• Humane Methods - Safe for animals and your family
• Local Expertise - We know Orlando and its wildlife challenges

Our Control Process in Orlando

1. Free Inspection - Complete property assessment
2. Humane Removal - Safe extraction of all animals
3. Entry Point Sealing - Prevent future intrusions
4. Cleanup & Restoration - Remove contamination and odors
5. Lifetime Warranty - Guaranteed protection

Common Animal Issues in Orlando

Our experienced technicians regularly address these problems:

• Attic and crawl space intrusions
• Structural entry points
• Droppings and contamination

Get Professional Help Today

Don't let nuisance wildlife damage your Orlando property. Contact Dr. Critter for immediate, professional assistance.

Our page on wildlife removal in Central Florida sets out how a job is inspected, quoted and warranted, in Orlando and everywhere else we work.

What animal control actually covers in Orlando, and what it does not

Animal control in Orlando means nuisance wildlife: the raccoon in the attic, the roof rats in the soffit, the armadillo under the pool deck, the snake beside the lanai. It is not the county animal services department, which handles stray dogs and cats and does not remove wildlife from a private structure, and it is not pest control, which is licensed for insects and works to a different scope. If you are hearing something overhead at two in the morning, the wildlife side is the one you want. Our roof rat guide and attic animal removal pages cover the two most common versions of that call.

Why Orlando properties get the calls they do

The city is not uniform, and the wildlife pressure follows the building stock rather than the postcode. The older tree-canopied districts north and east of downtown, the neighborhoods threaded through the Chain of Lakes, and anywhere with mature oak overhanging a roofline give squirrels and roof rats a bridge straight onto the structure, which is why those areas generate most of the attic work. Newer subdivisions further out trade that problem for a different one: open retention ponds, fresh sod over sandy fill, and construction-disturbed ground, which is armadillo and snake territory. If a snake has already turned up in the garage or pool cage, our page on snake removal in Orlando covers what to do before we arrive. Barrel tile roofs anywhere in the metro add bats to the list, because a lifted tile is an entry a bat can use and a homeowner cannot see from the ground. Our page on bat removal in Orlando covers how and when those colonies can legally come out.

When the calls cluster through the year

Raccoon work peaks from March into June, when females move litters into attics and the job stops being a trapping job and becomes a hand-removal job. Our page on raccoon removal in Orlando walks through that visit. Rat calls climb from October as nights cool and the population moves indoors. Armadillo digging tracks rainfall rather than the calendar and gets worse for the two or three nights after any hard rain, in any month. Bats are the one species with a hard legal date attached: exclusion is barred from April 16 through August 14 under Florida Administrative Code 68A-9.010, so a bat call in June is a call about scheduling August rather than about starting work. The Central Florida wildlife activity calendar maps the whole year, species by species.

What an Orlando job actually involves

Inspection first, and it is free. That establishes the species, the entry points, and whether young are present, because all three change the sequence. Removal follows, and it is not the end of the work. Sealing every entry the structure offers is what stops the next animal moving into the space this one vacated, and it is the part a cheap quote leaves out. Contaminated insulation and droppings come out after the building is closed. Most jobs run one to three weeks end to end, longer for bats because the colony has to empty itself over several nights rather than be removed.

What it costs

We quote after the inspection rather than off a price list, because the two things that drive the number are how much sealing the structure needs and how much contaminated material has to be replaced, and neither is knowable over the phone. What we can say up front is that the inspection and the phone estimate cost nothing, and that exclusion work carries our lifetime warranty: if an animal gets back in through work we sealed, we come back at no charge. For the ranges and the factors behind them, see what wildlife removal costs in Central Florida and our pricing and guarantee page.