Merrimack Valley Wildlife Control

Merrimack Valley Wildlife Control is a Merrimack, NH outfit built around one specialty: getting bats, squirrels, raccoons, and other nuisance animals out of houses and keeping them out. The company's own site says it has served Southern New Hampshire and Northern Massachusetts for 30 years, offering trapping, exclusion sealing, and attic cleanup with insured technicians and 24/7 emergency availability. The written record behind the 4.9-star rating on both Angi and HomeAdvisor (27 reviews, the same underlying pool on both sites) runs almost entirely from 2008 through 2013, so it's a dated track record rather than a recent one -- but it's a deep and consistent one. Owner Paul Estey is named directly in review after review, and the specifics repeat: a bat in an apartment sealed up within two days in a 2011 review, a raccoon and her two babies pulled from a chimney in 2009, flying squirrels trapped out of a cathedral ceiling the same year. Several reviewers mention a same-day or next-day response, and the Better Business Bureau backs it up with an A+ grade for wildlife management services (the company isn't BBB-accredited, but BBB still rates it). It isn't spotless. A 2011 reviewer felt a $235 skunk-trapping setup fee wasn't worth it after no skunk turned up in the traps, and a 2009 reviewer, otherwise pleased with a thorough squirrel removal, pushed back on being charged for tree trimming they hadn't asked for. Both are specific, named-job complaints worth asking about rather than vague gripes. Given how old the written reviews are, it's worth confirming directly that pricing, response times, and the crew are still what they were over a decade ago before booking -- the reputation here was clearly earned, but the paper trail behind it stops in 2013. For bats in the attic, squirrels in the eaves, or a raccoon that's moved into the chimney, this is a long-tenured specialist with a strong, if dated, local record -- just get current pricing and confirm today's availability up front.