Wildlife Removal in Shreveport, Louisiana
What is in your attic, what it costs to get out, and what Louisiana law requires. Free quotes from licensed local operators.
- Sourced from LDWF published rules
- Independent; we do not perform removals
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Start with the animal
Different animals do different damage on different timetables, and the law treats them very differently. Pick what you are dealing with.
Raccoons
Raccoons do more structural damage than any other animal that gets into a house, and in Shreveport they are the single most common call.
$300 – $600 for removal; far more if the attic needs restoring
Raccoon removal →Squirrels
Squirrels are the most frequent attic invader in Shreveport and the one most likely to start a fire.
$300 – $550 typical
Squirrel removal →Bats
Bats are the most legally constrained animal in this trade. Getting the timing wrong is not just inhumane, it is often illegal.
$400 – $600 small colony · $500 – $1,200 typical · $5,000 – $8,500 for a large colony
Bat removal →Opossums
Opossums are less destructive than raccoons but they den in the same places, and they are much harder to smell out until the mess is substantial.
$250 – $500 typical
Opossum removal →Armadillos
An armadillo can turn a good lawn over in a single night, and the burrows go under concrete.
$250 – $550 typical
Armadillo removal →Nutria
Nutria are invasive, unprotected, and their burrowing collapses the banks they live in.
Varies with site access and water level
Nutria removal →Snakes
Most snakes found around Shreveport homes are harmless and beneficial. A few are not, and the difference matters.
$150 – $400 for removal of a single snake
Snake removal →Skunks
Skunks den under porches, decks and sheds, and you usually know about it before you see one.
$300 – $550 typical
Skunk removal →Birds
This is the job most often done illegally, because almost nobody realises how broadly birds are protected.
$200 – $600 depending on access
Bird removal →Dead animals
Unpleasant, urgent, and almost always the consequence of an earlier problem that was sealed up instead of solved.
$200 – $600, more if drywall has to be opened
Dead animal removal →How they actually get in
Almost every job starts at one of the same eight places. Knowing which one matters, because sealing the wrong gap just moves the problem.
The part most people get wrong
An exterminator and a wildlife operator are not the same trade. Nuisance wildlife control requires a separate state licence, and bats and nearly all native birds are protected by law: a general pest company often cannot legally touch them. Nor will animal control: agencies decline this work and refer callers to private operators.
Louisiana runs the most demanding regime of the states we cover. Every NWCO must carry a valid LDWF permit while working, and permits are issued to individuals only: each person doing the work needs one in their own name, so a company permit does not cover an unlicensed employee. Operators must be 18 or over, must hold both a valid Louisiana trapping licence and a valid Louisiana basic hunting licence while working, and must score at least 80 percent on the LDWF NWCO examination covering wildlife biology and behaviour, control methods, and the law. Permits run on a calendar year and must be renewed annually. Everything Louisiana requires →
- 10animals covered in depth, not listed
- 8towns across Caddo Parish and around it
- Louisianalaw cited from the published source
- Freequotes, and no obligation to take one
What Shreveport is actually like to work in
Highland is the part of Shreveport that generates most of the difficult calls. It runs to roughly a hundred acres of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, American Foursquare and Craftsman bungalows, some of it standing since the 1870s, and housing of that age is built in ways that suit an animal: unlined masonry chimneys nobody burns anything in any more, deep boxed eaves with voids behind them, and balloon framing that lets a squirrel travel from the roofline down inside a wall. Broadmoor is the other half of the picture and a different problem, built out through the 1940s, 50s and 60s under magnolias and pines that are now well above the rooflines.
Shreveport sits on the Red River, and the Red River National Wildlife Refuge runs along the corridor south of the city. A river corridor is a highway for animals as much as for barges, and the neighbourhoods backing onto the bottomland get a steadier supply of raccoons and opossums than a map of the city would suggest.
The City of Shreveport publishes a short list of what it does not do, and it is unusually blunt: it does not pick up stray animals, does not spray for mosquitoes and does not supply rat poison. All of it goes to Caddo Parish Animal Services instead, and Caddo handles dogs and cats. Nothing in either remit covers an animal that has moved into a roof, so a squirrel in the eaves is a private expense from the first phone call. City of Shreveport, Animal/Pest Nuisance
Getting the animal out is half the job
By the time most people call, something has been living up there for weeks. The droppings, the flattened and soaked insulation, the chewed wiring and the smell all remain after the animal has gone, and on an insurance claim or a house sale, that is the part that gets inspected. What restoration involves →
Somebody has to look at the property to answer that. How many entry points or burrows there are, how hard they are to get at, and whether young are present is what sets the price, and none of it can be judged from a description. Send us your address and licensed local operators will quote the inspection and the work. Request free quotes →
Common questions
Who actually does wildlife removal: can I just call an exterminator?
Usually not. Nuisance wildlife work requires a state licence that a pesticide applicator’s licence does not cover, and bats and most native birds are protected by law. A general pest control company often cannot legally take the job.
Will the city or animal control come out for free?
The City of Shreveport publishes a short list of what it does not do, and it is unusually blunt: it does not pick up stray animals, does not spray for mosquitoes and does not supply rat poison. All of it goes to Caddo Parish Animal Services instead, and Caddo handles dogs and cats. Nothing in either remit covers an animal that has moved into a roof, so a squirrel in the eaves is a private expense from the first phone call.
What does it cost?
It depends entirely on the animal. Removing a single snake might be $150; a large bat colony with attic restoration can run past $8,000. The per-animal pages below give honest ranges.
Is it urgent?
Often yes, and not for the reason people expect. The animal itself is rarely the emergency: the damage compounds. Chewed wiring, soaked insulation and young born inside a wall all get worse and more expensive by the week.
Where we cover
Across Shreveport, Caddo Parish and the surrounding towns:
Shreveport · Bossier City · Haughton · Benton · Blanchard · Greenwood · Stonewall · Minden. Service areas →
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Licensed wildlife operators covering Shreveport will contact you directly. There is no charge and no obligation.