Precision Pest Control gets called into a lot of Pasadena homes after a store-bought trap or spray has already been tried, often on properties backing up to Vince Bayou or one of the other waterways that run through this part of Harris County. Bats, opossums, and raccoons in particular do not respond to the kind of treatment sold at a hardware store. We start from what actually failed.


Bats and raccoons are the two calls we get most often after someone has already tried to handle it themselves, usually because a hardware-store repellent or a single trap did nothing against an animal that has already found a way into an attic or chimney and has no reason to leave. Opossums and snakes show up around properties near Armand Bayou and other low-lying, bayou-adjacent yards, where wildlife naturally moves through and a fence rarely stops it. Rodents chew through the same gaps that let bats and raccoons in, and once an entry point is open, cockroaches and spiders tend to follow without anyone noticing the connection.
A bat colony in a Pasadena attic does not care about a can of spray, because the problem was never about killing anything, it is about an opening in the roofline that the colony uses every evening to leave and every morning to come back. Sealing that gap while bats are still roosting inside traps them in the structure, which creates a worse problem than the one you started with, so the sequence matters as much as the materials. The same logic applies to raccoons denning in a chimney or crawl space. A trap set without knowing whether there are young inside just separates a mother from her litter, and a homeowner ends up with a bigger mess and an animal that is now more defensive.
Snakes and opossums get the same treatment from a lot of DIY approaches, usually a call to remove one animal that shows up once, when the real issue is a yard near a bayou or drainage ditch that keeps attracting them back. Rodent bait bought off a shelf can also poison something further up the food chain if it is placed without knowing what else uses that same space, including pets. We start every job by figuring out why an animal chose that property in the first place, since removing one bat, one raccoon, or one snake without closing the door behind it just means doing the same job again in a few months.


See at Pest World!


See at Pest World!