Beaver Trapping

Beaver Trapping & Removal

Professional, Affordable and Effective Beaver Trapping, Removal & Dam Destruction Services

More often than not when faced with dealing with a Beaver problem, it is instinctive for us to think the solution to the beaver problem is to go and destroy their dam. Our thought is that they will just go away and quit causing problems... Not TRUE!

Beavers are highly industrious, therefore, removing dams and lodges has little impact on deterring beavers from an area. Dam removal is a laborious and sometimes can be an expensive task. Often dams will be repaired by the very next day. Continuous destruction of a dam will sometimes, depending on availability of construction materials, cause beavers to move to another site. However, displaced beavers may be even more troublesome at their new location. Therefore, dam removal is not effective unless the nuisance beavers are removed.

This is straight from the Georgia Department of Natural Resource's website:
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What to expect when you hire Professional Trappers

First we will ask you some questions to about your specific situation. Where the beavers located? How do you know that it is a beaver and not a muskrat, raccoon or something else --- Have you seen it? Can someone show us specifically where the dams are or the lodge is located? This helps us to get a better grasp as to what we are dealing with. Has anyone tried to trap the beavers in the past - are they trained or educated to avoid traps? How many times?

Then we inspect the property to see if we can quickly locate active dams & lodges. From that we estimate the size of the colony and the effort that has to go into trapping. That helps us figure out a fair price for the trapping, lodge and dam destruction. The last thing you want to do is destroy the dams before the beavers have been removed.

Then we set up traps specific to that animal and the situation, whether or not the area requires live traps, snares, or leg holds. Whether or not the property owner has a preference as to the type of trap we use is considered.

By our own standards, and the law, regardless if we use live traps or not we have to check the traps every single day to remove the beavers.

During the hotter summer months we provide shade to the live traps & a supply of water to make them comfortable until they can be removed.

There are some tricks to the trade with timing and all... BUT, After there are no more signs of activity we begin the destroying the dams and lodges to restore the natural flow and water level as mentioned above..