# Ohio Attic Animal Removal
# ohioatticanimalremoval.com
# Phone: 614-767-5459

> Ohio Attic Animal Removal (ohioatticanimalremoval.com) is a referral service for Ohio homeowners with an animal in the attic, a wall or a chimney.
> It is run by Local Core Group, which has no field staff and does no removal, sealing, cleanup or repair work.
> A call or form request is passed to an independent wildlife operator when one works at that address; the operator sets the price and answers for its own license and insurance.
> The site names no operator, publishes no prices and does not say that any city or county has an operator.
> Facts on its pages come from federal, county and city sources that were read and saved with their dates; no Ohio state rule is stated on the site, and the operator who takes a job answers for following state rules.

## Verified facts (sources read 2026-11-02 to 2026-11-02; each read date is on the sources page)

- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: the Indiana bat is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, with a listing date of March 11, 1967.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Federal Register): the rule reclassifying the northern long-eared bat as endangered was published November 30, 2022 and took effect March 31, 2023.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: chimney swifts, their eggs and their nests are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Federal Register): European starlings, house sparrows and rock pigeons are not protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: the animals most often found with rabies in the U.S. are bats, skunks, raccoons and foxes.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: the hantavirus that most often causes hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the U.S. is spread by the deer mouse, and sealing holes and gaps keeps rodents out of a home.
- U.S. Geological Survey: its Wildlife Health Bulletin 2011-03 reported confirmed white-nose syndrome in little brown bats in Lawrence County, Ohio.
- Cuyahoga County Board of Health: its jurisdiction is all of Cuyahoga County other than the City of Cleveland.
- Hamilton County Public Health: it takes animal bite reports for Hamilton County outside Cincinnati, Norwood and Springdale.

## Animals and services

- [Raccoon removal](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/services/raccoon-removal/): Raccoons denning above the ceiling or inside a chimney, and what to tell the operator on the call.
- [Bat removal](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/services/bat-removal/): A colony in the attic or roofline, the pup season that decides the timing, and who does the work.
- [Squirrel removal](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/services/squirrel-removal/): Gray, fox, red and southern flying squirrels, the openings they use, and what the job covers.
- [Mice and rats](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/services/mice-and-rats/): House mice and Norway rats: the gap sizes they fit through and the sealing that keeps them out.
- [Bird removal](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/services/bird-removal/): Starlings and sparrows in a vent, a woodpecker in the siding, and what federal law says about each.
- [Bat in the House](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/services/bat-in-house/): A bat loose in a room: the exposure check first, then which health department to call and who captures the bat.
- [Animals in the Attic](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/services/animals-in-attic/): Not sure what is up there. The season narrows the animal, with the Ohio source for each clue.
- [Animals in the Chimney](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/services/animals-in-chimney/): Scratching or chirping in the flue. Raccoons with young, protected chimney swifts, and what waits until the birds have gone.
- [Attic Insulation Removal and Cleanup](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/services/attic-cleanup/): Soiled insulation, bat droppings, raccoon latrines and mouse nests: what health sources say, and what to ask an operator.

## Guides


## City pages

- [Bats and Raccoons Inside a Cincinnati Home](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/locations/cincinnati/): The city health department arranges bat testing but takes no live bats, and 311 logs raccoons or bats indoors. What each office does, and who does the capture.
- [A Bat in a Cleveland House and Who You Call](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/locations/cleveland/): Cleveland has its own health department, apart from the county board. The bat-contact line, the bite line, and what city animal control handles.
- [A Bat in a Toledo Bedroom and the Lucas County Steps](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/locations/toledo/): The county health department's steps for a bat in the bedroom: keep it in the room, have it captured, call to arrange testing. One district, two phone options.
- [Bat Removal in Akron and What Summit County Public Health Does](https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/locations/akron/): Summit County Public Health says in writing that it does not capture bats. Who captures one in an Akron house, who arranges testing, and the county rabies line.
- Health departments by county and city: https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/locations/

## Sources

- Every source with retrieval dates: https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/sources/

## Contact

- Phone: 614-767-5459 (calls route by ZIP to an independent operator where one covers the address)
- Request form: https://ohioatticanimalremoval.com/contact/