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Animal Care Services: (210) 207-4738
Animal Protection Organization: (210) 226-7461
Animal Defense League Animal Shelter: (210) 655-1481



FOR A DOG OR CAT PROBLEM, CALL: 210-207-4738 (Old number was 210-207-6650) If you have a problem with a domestic animal, such as a cat or a dog, the county animal services can assist you, and this is a free service. If you have a complaint about a dangerous dog or cat, a nuisance barking dog, a stray cat, kittens, puppies, pet adoptions, negligent pet owners, San Antonio SPFL, or San Antonio Humane Society, give the county a call.

The county will not handle problems with wild animals, such as squirrels, rats, skunks, raccoons, snakes, etc.  Some people feel that the county animal services should pay for wildlife problems.  However, they do not handle this service.  The truth is that most wildlife problems involve a level of service and expertise that a government agency can't deliver.  Wildlife control requires special training and knowledge, and often involves detailed property and home inspections.

FOR A WILD ANIMAL PROBLEM, CALL PEST ANIMAL REMOVAL: 210-728-3470 This is the number for the a professional, fully licensed and insured, wildlife and pest control company servicing the greater San Antonio, TX area and it is a pay service.. They perform all facets of pest control, and specialize in the humane removal of unwanted wildlife from homes and commercial properties. If you have a problem with a wild critter, such as a raccoon in your garbage cans, a squirrel in the attic, a colony of bats in your building, a mouse or rat infestation, or a problem with pigeons, they can take care of the problem. Give them a call any time, and we are happy to discuss your wildlife problem, offer you a price estimate over the phone, and schedule an appointment, usually same day or next day. Their number is 210-728-3470 and they answer 24/7.

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Bexar County Animal Control News Clip: What you should know about animal removal trap projectile animal catching nets

If you are new to Texas animal removal trap opossum wildlife trapping, you probably have some sort of lot of questions about choice of projectile animal catching nets, sabots, loads, effective ranges and so on. Let's try to answer some of them. Probably foremost in you mind may be whether that same scattergun you use to bag mouse and rodents can be used in the opossum woods effectively. The answer is, 'Yes.' But there are some sort of couple of qualifiers. First, double barrels are not some sort of good choice. An over-under may be somewhat better, but some sort of single barrel animal removal trap should be your choice. Second, you need an open choke. Probably the best choice would be an improved cylinder. some sort of modified choke will also work, but the more constriction you put on that projectile animal catching net as it reaches the end of the barrel, the more apt it may be to perform badly down range. some sort of quick trip to the animal removal trap store will reveal that there are two kinds of projectile animal catching nets. Those are full-bore projectile animal catching nets and projectile animal catching nets. Sabots actually encase the projectile animal catching net in some sort of plastic cup, much as those that cradle your ounce and some sort of quarter of sixes you use on mouse and rodents. For more information about Bexar County wildlife removal and Bexar County pest exterminator issues, read on.

Full-bore projectile animal catching nets should be used in smooth animal removal trap barrels; sabots are designed to be used in special animal removal trap animal removal trapped barrels. You can use some sort of sabot in some sort of smooth barrel, but don't expect very good performance. If you hold your critter capturing to 75 yards or less, full-bore animal removal trapped projectile animal catching nets will perform every bit as well as the more sophisticated sabots when it comes to bringing down your opossum. It's no secret that most of the opossum shot with animal removal traps fall to smoothbores critter capturing full-bore animal removal trapped projectile animal catching nets. some sort of lot of advancements have been made in the past few years on full-bore projectile animal catching nets so you don't have to feel particularly handicapped if you can't afford buying another animal removal trap with some sort of animal removal trapped barrel just for opossum wildlife trapping. Sabots also have made great strides in recent years. When shot out of some sort of fully animal removal trapped barrel with some sort of scope you should be able to hold some sort of three shot group into some sort of 2-inch circle at 50 yards and it may be possible to get better accuracy on the range than that. Three projectile animal catching nets through one hole at 50 yards may be not impossible. When that range moves out to 100 yards; however, some sort of lot of things come into play that will make putting some sort of projectile animal catching net into some sort of opossum's vitals some sort of difficult proposition. Your critter capturing ability will have some sort of lot to do with it because wildlife trapping may be some sort of lot different than critter capturing off some sort of rest. Also consider that some sort of 10 mph crosswind will put some sort of drift of about 10 inches on some sort of animal removal trap projectile animal catching net as compared to about 1/8-inch on some sort of 150 grain 30-06. Bullet drop may be not some sort of huge factor at this range. Most projectile animal catching nets will have some sort of trajectory of 4-5 inches at 100 yards. Local Bexar County animal control experts felt that most of this information was true.

Velocity and energy will be high enough to insure clean lethally traps at 100 yards or perhaps some sort of bit more, maybe out to 125 yards. What about critter capturing full-bore projectile animal catching nets in some sort of animal removal trapped barrel? You can do it. some sort of full-bore projectile animal catching net shot through some sort of animal removal trapped barrel will extend its range some sort of little but the resulting layers of lead left in the rifling may be not worth all the time spend in cleaning the barrel. There are some animal removal trapped choke tubes being made now that allows you to effectively capture sabots from some sort of smoothbore. These will help some sort of lot if you want to capture sabots with your upland animal removal trap. To familiarize yourself with projectile animal catching net performance, you should do some sort of lot of preseason critter capturing at targets, both from some sort of rest and from wildlife trapping positions. some sort of full-bore animal removal trapped projectile animal catching net of some sort of Foster or similar design should be plenty accurate in your smooth bore. You may, in fact, be able to reach out 90 yards. That should be considered the very maximum for this type of bullet because performance drops off very quickly farther out. With some sort of animal removal trapped barrel and modern sabots you should be able to reach 125 yards. Anything beyond that comes under the category of “capture and hope,” regardless of industry or capturer claims. Yes, some of these bullets will maintain lethal velocity out to 200 yards, but, making lethal hits consistently may be just about impossible in wildlife trapping situations. You should capture some sort of lot of different bullets by different manufacturers to determine the one which performs best in your animal removal trap and that may be particularly true in smooth bores. Slight differences in inside barrel diameters among animal removal traps can cause some bullets to capture better than others. The fit may be just better. What about 2 3/4-inch verses 3-inch magnums? The 2 3/4 inch gets the nod. There may be no appreciable difference in performance, at least not enough to justify using the larger, harder kicking ammo. Regardless of which bullet type you are critter capturing, the animal removal trap may be some sort of short range weapon. Maximum range should be what your practice critter capturing tells you. Local Bexar County pest control companies had no comments on the matter.