# Texas Attic Animal Removal
# texasatticanimalremoval.com
# Phone: 512-434-0107

> Texas Attic Animal Removal (texasatticanimalremoval.com) is a referral service for Texas homeowners with a raccoon, squirrel, bat or opossum in the attic.
> 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. It has no pages on rats, mice, birds or snakes.
> Facts come from Texas statutes, state agency pages read by a person, and city pages; three city pages were read from dated Internet Archive copies and are labeled.

## Verified facts (sources read 2026-10-03 to 2026-11-13; each read date is on the sources page)

- Texas Parks and Wildlife Code, Section 63.101: hunting, selling and buying bats is barred, and a bat may be removed when it is inside or on a building people occupy.
- Texas Department of State Health Services: when a bat is in a room and contact cannot be ruled out, such as waking to find it there, the bat should not be released; local animal control captures it for rabies testing.
- Texas Parks and Wildlife: raccoons, opossums, skunks and foxes are fur-bearing animals, and releasing a captured one on another property needs written authorization from the department.
- 25 Texas Administrative Code, Section 169.34: a statewide rabies quarantine makes it illegal to transport a live raccoon, fox, skunk or coyote in Texas, with listed exemptions.
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Code, Section 63.001: gray, cat, fox and red squirrels are game animals.
- City of Austin: Austin Animal Services does not remove healthy native wildlife.
- City of Houston (BARC): for animals in a garage or attic, residents are told to call a licensed pest control company.

## Animals and services

- [Raccoon removal](https://texasatticanimalremoval.com/services/raccoon-removal/): A fur-bearing animal under Texas law, with state rules on taking it and on moving it once caught.
- [Squirrel removal](https://texasatticanimalremoval.com/services/squirrel-removal/): Game animals under Texas law. This page is short, because the state pages read say little about one in a building.
- [Bat removal](https://texasatticanimalremoval.com/services/bat-removal/): What to do when a bat is in a room with people, what state law allows, and when pups are in the roost.
- [Opossum removal](https://texasatticanimalremoval.com/services/opossum-removal/): An opossum inside the house or attic. Yards and decks are outside what this page covers.
- [Animals in the attic](https://texasatticanimalremoval.com/services/animals-in-attic/): Which animals Texas sources place in attics, where rats and birds stand, and what to ask about insulation and chimneys.

## Guides

- [Does Animal Control Remove Wildlife From a Home in Texas?](https://texasatticanimalremoval.com/guides/does-animal-control-remove-wildlife/): What Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and Fort Worth each say about wildlife in an attic or home: what the city will not do, and when it does respond.

## City pages

- [Wildlife Removal in Austin, Texas](https://texasatticanimalremoval.com/locations/austin/): What Austin Animal Services does and does not do about wildlife in a house, and when 3-1-1 is the right call.
- Health departments by county and city: https://texasatticanimalremoval.com/locations/

## Sources

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

## Contact

- Phone: 512-434-0107 (calls route by ZIP to an independent operator where one covers the address)
- Request form: https://texasatticanimalremoval.com/contact/