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Heritage Wildlife Management

(613) 601-2959

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    • Wildlife Services
      • Nuisance Wildlife Species
      • Raccoon Removal
      • Squirrel Removal
      • Skunk Removal
      • Mouse and Rat Control
      • Bird Removal
      • Beaver Removal
      • Muskrat Removal
    • Prevention Services
    • The Process
    • Blog
    • Contact Us
Heritage Wildlife Management

(613) 601-2959

  • Home
  • Wildlife Services
    • Nuisance Wildlife Species
    • Raccoon Removal
    • Squirrel Removal
    • Skunk Removal
    • Mouse and Rat Control
    • Bird Removal
    • Beaver Removal
    • Muskrat Removal
  • Prevention Services
  • The Process
  • Blog
  • Contact Us

Wildlife Prevention Services

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There are plenty of reasons to invest in ensuring that no wildlife enters your home or business.

Wildlife prevention is the best action you can take towards preventing wildlife from entering your property. The wildlife prevention methods keep animals away, preventing home damage and keeping everything mess-free. If there has been an ongoing wildlife issue and it was not dealt with, many insurance companies will refuse to compensate for damages such as fire due to chewed wires. If you’ve already began to face wildlife challenges, you can act now to ensure the animals do not return. Protection from injury, sickness and loss by handling wildlife, messes and damages begins by making your property wildlife-proof.

Juvenile raccoon on property.

Prevention Services

We use wildlife prevention methods that ensure the animals are removed from the home without hurting you or the animal. We trace the location of the animals, decide on the best method of extraction, and then remove the wildlife. During this process, we’ll also conduct a thorough inspection of the area around your home to spot any animals, entry points and potential future entry points.

Heritage Wildlife Management will give you a plan to keep all the wildlife out permanently. We will provide an estimate and prioritize which preventative measures should be taken first.  

We guarantee the area we proof will be intact unless someone tampers with it.

Reinforced chimney cap to prevent birds and squirrels from entering.

Wildlife Proofing: Chimneys

Chimneys are common means animals use to enter your property. To prevent such cases, chimneys need to be covered well. We offer animal proofing. Heritage Wildlife Management offers a roof inspection and recommendations to prevent future damage and future requirements of any wildlife removal services.

Prevention services to keep critters out of roof vents.

Wildlife Proofing: Roofs and Soffit

In some cases, wildlife may damage parts of your roof and use these as entry-points. Squirrels, raccoons, bats and birds can get in through your roof. Raccoons and squirrels can sense air flow through a damaged or old roof and chew through your roof, vents and around stack vents and soffit.

Rock and wire retaining wall to prevent skunks and groundhogs from getting under sheds and decks.

Wildlife Proofing: Ground

Some animal species use the ground a lot more than the roof areas to enter your home or property. They could be mice, rats, red squirrels, chipmunks and snakes. Snakes will enter homes in Ottawa looking for mice. Heritage Wildlife Management will do an inspection and write up an estimate to solve your issues with appropriate wildlife prevention services and a game plan to a permanent solution.

Tips to Prevent Wildlife Infiltration

Here are just a few …

  1. You can try and discover what the wild animals love to feed on. Look to bird feeders, garbage, gardens and fruit or nut trees in not your property but also those surrounding you.
  2. Checking for holes or openings in the roof, basement, or porch from time to time.  Call  Heritage Wildlife Management if you find entry holes.
  3. Cut any overhanging branches that can allow wildlife getting onto the roof causing damage or even worse, making a home of your attic. Overhanging limbs may also be damaging your roof.
  4. Place garbage in a container with a lid that’s sealable and/or lockable to prevent the animals from getting in it.
  5. If you have pets, always store their pet food inside to avoid attracting wild animals.
  6. Lastly, birds and other small animals may use the chimney to get into your home. To prevent this from happening you can install some unique caps or wrap the chimney cap with wire mesh. If you make any alterations to fuel burning appliance vents, be sure to have your HVAC professional check after you’ve finished and to ensure you haven’t caused any venting restriction.

Choose Heritage Wildlife Management for skunk prevention and removal services.

Nuisance wildlife has always been a part of our Ottawa community, however an increase has been reported and is escalating annually. Wild animals continue to get into the busy urban neighbourhoods in search of food as well as shelter. They’ve now settled into areas full of humans and are drawn by fruit and nut trees (as in the Glebe and Rockcliffe areas), bird feeders, gardens and garbage. We all enjoy watching wildlife from a distance but it becomes problematic when they’re too close and on invading your home or property.

Contact Heritage Wildlife Management for your nuisance squirrel service needs.

Birds and animals in the attic, garage or basement could cause problems to your electrical wiring, tamper with the insulation and cause costly damage to your home. Besides damaging the property, the animals pose a health risk with the pests they harbour, diseases they hold as well as the feces they leave behind.

Pigeons on roof leaving behind a big mess.

Contact Heritage Wildlife Management for wildlife prevention services to restrict wildlife from entering your home and reduce the risk posed to you, those you love and your pets.


It is advisable to seek these wildlife prevention methods and proofing services earlier, rather than incurring the expense of removal later, including the repair to damages caused by these intrusive animals.

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  • Certified Professional Wildlife Control Operator
  • National Wildlife Control Operators Association Member

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