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Patrick Durocher, the owner of Control Wildlife Pest in the area of Montreal, spends his days trapping, catching and getting rid of bothersome creatures for city residents. Patrick typically schedules two to four appointments a day, but he must be flexible for the urgent and unpredictable phone calls that he might receive. No one wants to wait a couple of hours if there’s a squirrel in his or her living room. Climbing up ladders and stabilizing himself on a roof produces its own dangers, but dealing with wild animals that might carry diseases is a risk that’s part of the job. Exterminateur raton laveur

Squirrels

Still, stubborn squirrels, cunning ‘coons and stench-ridden skunks are no match for the Varmintman.

Crawling around on his hands and knees in a dark, low-beamed attic space, M. Durocher is facing just another day on the job. For this particular task, he must remove a handful of baby squirrels from a West-Island family’s attic they search for exterminateur écureuil Montréal. He gathers the squirrels in a net and attempts to transfer them into a Havahart metal trap when something hits him on the back. In the darkness, he struggles to place the babies in the trap when the same force hits him again in the chest. After gathering the young squirrels into the trap, he fumbles around for a flashlight only to discover the assailant — the mother squirrel.

Patrick’s says he rarely deals with confrontational squirrels, but mothers will go to extreme lengths to protect their young, in this instance, launching herself at him. But usually a squirrel will resort to its favorite pastime — chewing. Squirrels have the ability to chew through just about any material, including vinyl, wood, plastic and aluminum, which is why they easily get into people’s homes.

Sometimes a mother is separated from her young by a one-way squirrel trap or other steel barricades. If not, in Patrick’s experience with Control Wildlife Pest, a mother has no problem creating a new entrance by just gnawing her way back into the home. That’s why it’s important to first identify if squirrels live in the attic and then determine if they are young squirrels. From there, someone from Wildlife control can decide how to go about the situation.

Because squirrels love to chew, one of the biggest concerns most families have is damage to electrical wiring. If squirrels can get past aluminum and vinyl, wires are no problem. In most cases squirrels need only to come in contact with a transformer, but occasionally they will meet their fatal end by chewing through electrical cables. Exterminator squirrel Montreal

Hydro-Québec says the department installed guards in problem areas to keep squirrels from the power lines and away from the transformers, but sometimes those safeguards are just not enough. “If you’ve ever had bird feeders and want to keep squirrels out, they tend to still find a way,” Patrick say’s Extermination écureuil West-Island

Raccoons

After a scruffy encounter with a rambunctious raccoon, Patrick Durocher has a newfound appreciation for his gloves. Despite his best efforts, the raccoon still managed to sink its teeth into one of Patrick’s fingers. Little did the raccoon know, its jaws of fury would ultimately cost it its life.Exterminateur raton laveur Montréal

After a high-speed chase around the garage, Patrick was able to corner the frightened raccoon against a wall where it proceeded to make things worse by wedging itself behind a metal grate. Still unable to get to this contentious ’coon with his control stick, Patrick decided to go for broke and use his hands.Exterminator raccoon Montreal

“I just went down with my gloves and grabbed the thing, and it immediately turned around on its back and started biting the gloves,” Patrick says.Exterminator raccoon West-Island

Although he finally managed to get the raccoon into his trap, Patrick didn’t escape unscathed. He peeled off his gloves to reveal broken skin on one of his fingers. Unfortunately, this battle wound meant that the raccoon would have to be tested for rabies — a test that requires euthanasia, so the brain of the possibly infected animal can be sent to a qualified laboratory. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most common test is the direct fluorescent antibody test or DFA. Patrick is rabies-free.

Raccoons often approach houses in search of food or to take shelter in warm chimneys or attics. Raccoons are omnivorous and opportunistic eaters, and their ability to adapt has led them from the forests of North America to a wide range of habitats, including cities and urban areas. Control Wildlife Pest Montreal most often receives complaints about raccoons rummaging in dumpsters or sneaking their way into people’s homes.

Although Patrick doesn’t consider this experience his shining moment in raccoon wrangling, he was happy that he was at least able to remove the critter from his client’s dwelling. —Lyne Duquette

Skunks

Patrick Durocher packed his truck with four animal traps, a Faceguard 18–inch and three Tomahawk traps. The plan was to set the traps around the site the baby skunks were using to enter a white metal shed. When Patrick pulled into the driveway of the house in Montréal at 10 p.m., the white-haired, mustachioed customer didn’t have all night to wait. He told Patrick the wildlife control needed to be out — now.Extermination moufette Montréal

No, Patrick said, generally I put skunk traps out by hand and get them that way.

No, the man said, pick them up.

Of course, the customer is always right.

The striped skunk is one of two skunks, along with the endangered spotted skunk, that inhabit Québec. They prefer to live underground in dens covered by hedges or brush to hide them from predators.Exterminator skunk Montreal

Patrick discovered two kitten-sized babies huddled against the shed, one under an upturned kiddie pool, the other one beside a garage. Patrick scooped up the first with his 2-foot-long minnow net. Exterminateur moufette Montréal

The good news about adult skunks is that they use their oily yellow butyl mercaptan spray only when they have to. They’re intelligent about when and when not to use it. The bad news about younger skunks is that they have the ability to spray at birth, and juvenile skunks are not intelligent. Their spray can shoot up to 20 feet. Patrick looked at the baby skunk huddled 3 feet away next to the garage. He looked at the net he needed to catch it. He reached down toward the baby.

Four days later, the smell was gone. Four months later, the stain on the minnow net, now brown, remains. - Patrick Durocher