Affordable Wildlife Solution

A bat was circling the bedroom at 1:30 in the morning. The homeowner texted Affordable Wildlife Solution at 2:30, got a call back at seven when the phone opened, and Les was on site by ten — bat captured so it could be tested, attic and roofline checked for how it got in. That account, posted in August 2026, is the shape of nearly every story told about this Dartmouth outfit. The owner does the work himself, by customers' accounts; writers in 2025 name Les Botelho as the man who quotes the job and turns up for it. The calls are raccoons, squirrels, bats, birds and groundhogs — in attics, chimneys, sheds and under porches. On Google the tally is 5★ across 154 ratings; its Angi and HomeAdvisor pages carry the same 5.0 from 96 reviews, and the Better Business Bureau grades it A+ for wildlife removal. Speed is the line that keeps repeating, and it comes with specifics rather than adjectives. A Memorial Day Saturday call in May 2026 brought him out by noon and back again at 9:30 that night to finish the job. A 2025 customer logged a ten-minute callback and a same-day visit for a raccoon in a chimney; another had him arrive at 10:30 at night for a raccoon in a garden shed, then return to look for kits. The second through-line is that removal isn't where he stops. Homeowners describe humane traps checked every morning until the last animal is out, followed by the repair that matters: gable vents sealed, hardware cloth fitted over a gap under solar panels, chimney caps installed. In January 2026 a flying squirrel was lifted out of a fireplace and the chimney capped on the same visit. In 2025 a bird's nest in a wall was sealed and a woodpecker deterrent fitted. Worth pinning down is how the trapping is priced. A homeowner in May 2025 described a flat fee covering a five-day program — setting the traps, checking them daily, rebaiting and resetting as needed — rather than a charge per animal, so ask what that window covers and what happens if the animal isn't caught inside it. Several customers volunteered that his number came in under competing quotes; one in April 2025 said half. He's the call for the urgent, in-the-house problem: something scratching above the ceiling, something down the chimney, something flying around at 2am. Before booking, settle the trapping window and get the sealing work written into the quote — that exclusion step is what separates a removal from a repeat visit.