Welcome to Pest Animal Chicago! We are a wildlife removal company servicing Chicago, IL. We are a family-run business, and we pride ourselves on our commitment to customer service. We handle the removal of squirrels in attics, raccoons in houses, skunk trapping, and more. We also do the best rat control work in the city - we don't use poisons like those large Chicago pest control comnpanies. We solve the rodent issue permanently via trapping and exclusion repairs to your home or building to keep them out for good. We take a humane approach to wildlife control. Call us now at 773-770-4413 for your Chicago wildlife control needs.

Our Service Range

We service the greater Chicago region, includng Cook County, DuPage County, Kane County, Kendall County, Lake County, McHenry County and Will County. We service all suburbs and towns, such as Arlington Heights, Aurora, Berwyn, Bolingbrook, Cicero, Des Plaines, Elgin, Evanston, Gary, Hammond, Hoffman Estates, Joliet, Kenosha, Mount Prospect, Naperville, Oak Forest, Oak Lawn, Oak Park, Orland Park, Palatine, Schaumburg, Skokie, Tinley Park, Waukegan, Wheaton, and more.

How to Keep Skunks Away

Chicago skunks cause damage any time they reach human household. Whether it's killing far animals, devastating gardens, yards, and sheds or spraying on your pets, it is definitely important to know how to keep skunks away and keep your home skunk-proof. Skunks, being nocturnal omnivore mammals, are most likely to attack at night. Drawn by the available opportunity for food and shelter, Illinois skunks will most likely use the opportunity to use any spot available to get inside a residence, like a cracked fence. This means that is not very likely that you will spot a skunk during the day. Instead, chances are that you will spot damage in your home caused by skunks in the morning after the skunk had raided your yard for the entire night. If you want to avoid skunk invasions to catch you off guard, it is important to know a few facts about how skunks manage to get inside a home in the first place.



How Illinois skunks get inside a home or a building is a question with a simple answer. Initially, skunks will catch on the smell of food coming from a household, using they highly sharpened sense of smell. Skunks can scent food kilometers away, and if a skunk is in need of fresh protein, it will not restrain from attempting to get to farm animals, particularly poultry, in your farm or raiding the trash cans in your back yard. Skunks, actually, search for food in the human household only in extreme circumstances. They will attack human household most likely if their natural habitats have been compromised or destroyed. The most frequent reason for Chicago skunks abandoning their natural habitats due to deforestation, wildfires and the urbanization of forest areas. Cutting of trees, the biggest reason for skunks abandoning their natural habitats, destroys their dens, leaving skunks scared, with no shelter and with limited food resources.

One of the best ways to keep Chicago skunks out of your home is fencing. Installing a good-quality fence in your yard should keep skunks from chewing and clawing through or burrowing under them. Skunks are very well capable of tackling fences and they will win the battle against any fence that is not tall, sturdy, dense or deep enough. To fence your property in the right way, you are going to have to dig the fence deep enough to stop skunks from burrowing under them. Even though burrowing is not skunk's main feature, they are extremely capable of digging tunnels underneath fences. These tunnels, however, don't normally reach deeper than you can dig in your fences. Make this a number one task in proper fencing. Choosing a right material for your fence is also a must. You should opt in for a sturdy material, be it mesh wire or wood, that Illinois skunks are not going to be able to claw or chew through. Make sure to inspect your fence on a regular basis and fix any holes, gaps or rotten spots you find. Only once your fence is completely sealed, you can rest assured that your home is skunk-proof.

To conclude, there are multiple effective ways of preventing skunks from getting inside your home. However, proper fencing and all necessary home repairs are the basic and most effective method of deterring Illinois skunks.

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