You wake up to frantic scratching inside the wall. A thud in the hallway. Or worse, a bat flying across your bedroom. Finding a wild animal loose in your living space is not a minor inconvenience. It is a middle-of-the-night emergency, and it needs a same-night answer.
When wildlife gets inside, delay costs money. Chewed electrical wiring, destroyed insulation, contaminated air, structural damage and exposure to rabies, leptospirosis and histoplasmosis all get worse by the hour.
If an animal is inside your home right now, Attic Kings offers 24/7 emergency wildlife removal throughout Norcross, Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County and the greater Metro Atlanta area. Call 404.723.1065.
Our Full-House Exclusion Guarantee
When we perform complete, whole-house animal proofing on your home, we cover the entire process: we service, trap and seal. If another wildlife problem arises afterward, you are covered under our renewable warranty.
In urgent overnight situations where full repairs are not feasible on the spot, our technicians apply an emergency "band-aid" solution. We remove the active animal and temporarily seal the entry point, then return for a full inspection during daylight hours.
The 5 Most Common Wildlife Emergencies We Handle
1. A Bat Inside Your Living Quarters
The Signs and Hazards
High-frequency squeaking, faint crawling sounds behind drywall, or bats swarming out of your rooflines, eaves or gable vents at dusk all point to an attic colony. When a bat strays into a bedroom or hallway, it becomes an immediate emergency. Bats carry potential rabies exposure, and their guano builds up into a serious respiratory hazard.
What to Do While You Wait
Do not lose sight of it. Close the bat inside a single room, shut all interior doors and stuff towels under the door gaps. Knowing exactly where the bat is lets our technician capture it the moment we walk in. Learn more about our bat removal and exclusion process.
2. A Raccoon Inside the House
The Signs and Hazards
Raccoons are powerful, stubborn and highly destructive. Emergency calls usually start with a raccoon squeezing through a doggie door, falling through ruined ceiling sheetrock, breaking through soffits or descending an uncapped chimney flue. Once inside, they tear up ductwork, smash drywall and aggressively defend the space.
What to Do While You Wait
Safely isolate the raccoon in the room where it entered by shutting interior doors. Keep your distance, but know exactly which room or chimney flue it is contained in so our team can extract it quickly. See our full raccoon removal services.
3. A Snake in the House, Garage or Basement
The Signs and Hazards
Snakes follow scent trails left by mice and rats. They get in through preexisting holes, unsealed crawl space doors, pipe openings and gaps around the garage. If you have snakes, you very likely have a rodent problem feeding them.
What to Do While You Wait
Snakes are expert hiders. Keep eyes on it from a safe distance. If it slips out of sight, finding it gets significantly harder. If it is in a confined room, close the door, block the bottom gap with a heavy towel and wait for our technician. Here is how our snake removal service works.
4. Loose Squirrels and Flying Squirrels
The Signs and Hazards
Squirrels and flying squirrels end up in living quarters by slipping down chimneys, descending through utility cutouts around furnaces and water heaters, or traveling between floor joists and wall voids. Flying squirrels in particular move between floors. Trapped in a wall cavity, they chew relentlessly on wiring and framing.
What to Do While You Wait
- If it is running loose: Close it into a single room, block the under-door gap and track its position.
- If it is trapped inside a wall: Mark an X on the wall with tape or a pencil exactly where you hear scratching or chewing. We may need to cut a small section of sheetrock to free the animal, and marking the spot saves real time and repair cost.
More on squirrel removal and flying squirrel removal.
5. Rats or Mice Spotted Indoors
The Signs and Hazards
Seeing a rat or mouse cross your kitchen floor means the population is already established somewhere you cannot see. Rodents chew constantly, shredding insulation and gnawing electrical wiring behind walls, which is a documented fire hazard.
What to Do While You Wait
Our technicians can deploy emergency traps or perform hand removals to handle the immediate animal. In most cases, emergency traps get you through the night safely, followed by a full-home inspection the next day to identify entry points, set a targeted trapping program and permanently seal the structure. See our rat removal and mice removal services.
Why Emergency Removal Is Only Half the Job
Getting the animal out solves tonight's problem. It does not solve next month's. Every animal that got inside used an entry point, and that entry point is still open after the animal is gone. Worse, the scent and pheromone trail left behind actively signals other animals that your attic is a viable den site.
This is why every emergency call should be followed by a full exclusion inspection. We identify every gap, seal it with materials animals cannot chew through, and back the work with our renewable guarantee. We also handle attic decontamination to remove contaminated insulation, droppings and the pheromone trails that draw repeat intrusions.
Emergency Wildlife Removal Across Metro Atlanta
Attic Kings has operated out of Norcross, GA since 2013, and our technicians are licensed through the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. We know local wildlife pressure because we work it every night.
We provide 24/7 emergency animal removal in:
- Norcross and Peachtree Corners
- Lawrenceville and Snellville
- Duluth, Suwanee and Buford
- Lilburn and Tucker
- Alpharetta, Roswell and Johns Creek
- Gwinnett, Fulton, DeKalb, Forsyth and surrounding counties
Restore Your Peace of Mind Tonight
Whether you need an animal extracted in the next hour or full-house animal proofing with our complete service guarantee, Attic Kings has you covered.
- Call now: 404.723.1065 reaches our 24/7 emergency dispatch team.
- Book online: Request your free inspection and lock in long-term protection for your home.
Attic Kings, Inc.
1728 Chase Common Ct., Norcross, GA 30071