Southern Wildlife Management

Same day service was great to experience! Bruce was a pleasure to meet and work with ... and also provided his thoughts on an issue not related to the original call. Will keep Southern Wildlife Mgmt on my list of quality home services for future needs!!

Professional and quick! Great service.

Update: I originally planned to have them come back a month or so after the exclusion job just to check everything out, but I have heard NO noise at all from the squirrels. Entirely squirrel-free! The estimate/cost was much lower than other quotes I received as well. As expected, the conversation was very pleasant when I called the company just to follow up with Verron about not needing a check-up visit after all due to the excellent work. No more tree rats in my attic! I returned home from seeing family over the holidays and noticed that I had squirrels move into my attic while I was away. After reading reviews and checking with other local businesses in regards to pricing, I gave Southern Wildlife a call as well and spoke with Verron about the pesky rodents. She explained in great detail how the process worked, pricing, and also offered exclusion services WITHOUT pressuring me. She was very transparent about why those services are recommended as well. Overall I am VERY pleased with the services. Highly recommend this friendly and efficient family owned business if you're in need of fair pricing and honest work!!

Great service! I live in Alpharetta, GA, and Southern Wildlife was knowledgeable, honest, and easy to work with. They took the time to explain what was really needed and didn’t try to sell unnecessary services. I appreciated their straightforward approach and would definitely recommend them. Just an after thought. They said they would research some sources for an issue I have had in the past and they followed up as promised. That is rare these days!

They came out and took some pictures of where there were critter activities, which were helpful, but they then proceeded to set traps for a few days and catch nothing. They then quoted me $1800 for exclusion, but wouldn't provide time or materials in the quote, just arbitrary numbers based on "difficulty". Mind you I had to pay $400 for the "trapping" that would go towards the exclusion, which seems to be the main part of their business (not trapping/removal). {Original Response Left in-tact} Edit regarding the response: I just wanted to re-iterate that if you charge full price to attempt to trap squirrels for a week, actually trapping something goes a long way towards the customer experience. I'd recommend that if you fail to actually trap something, maybe a discount is in order. It really just felt like a bait-and-switch for the exclusion service. $400 is not "low cost" for many people, but most of us don't know that trapping does very little to deal with a squirrel infestation without exclusion until the service has already started. Meanwhile, your advertising is specifically focused on the trapping/relocating aspect, which is basically useless until you spend $1500+ on exclusion, which is misleading at best. I hope the money we gave you all went to the gentleman that came to perform the service, as he was awesome. I genuinely hope you are successful in your business endeavors, and that it brings you satisfaction and happiness. Just know that it does actually impact those on the other side of the transactions that couldn't afford to buy Christmas presents or fully afford their mortgage payment for the month when charged $400 for pictures and an attempted trapping endeavor that led to nothing. {Second Response Left in-tact} Edit for the second response: I'm not sure how you can say there were no squirrels to remove. There absolutely were and still are. I hear them every day in and around my attic/roof including when your employee was here. Second, yes, you charged for a service and provided that service, but where I take issue is the fact that you're willing to perform these services in the first place knowing that it won't do anything without exclusion afterward, but don't make that clear to the customer until after the trapping service has occurred and been charged/paid for. At this point they've already paid the $400+ and will feel obligated to move on to the exclusion or risk the critters coming back (which they absolutely will) and their money being wasted. Not only that, but you also don't even guarantee that you'll catch anything. I've never heard of an exterminator that will charge you to simply show up and lay traps but not actually catch or remove anything, which is what happened in our case, and is the whole reason for this review. Finally, while we paid for the trapping service, it *feels* like we paid $400+ for pictures/investigation with no results (even though this isn't literally what happened). This meant we could either move on to further trapping/exclusion or be out the money we paid, which is the option we took because we couldn't afford the $1800. This *feels* like a bait and switch whether or not it actually is, which is, in-fact, what I said in my original post. Please try to understand what happened from our perspective instead of blaming all your customers that have a bad experience.

Bruce came out to our home on two occasions. The first was for a large hornets nest and the second was for several underground yellow jacket nests. Their pricing was very fair. I appreciate their honest business practices and professionalism.

I live in Dawsonville and highly recommend Southern Wildlife Management. Elliot came out for pest control and, unlike our last exterminator who was in and out in about five minutes, he took the time to really listen to our needs and concerns and explained how he will adjust his game plan for us— and that is something I truly respect. He was very knowledgeable and clearly had our family’s best interest in mind.

Quote for price between $850 and $1,200. Then send me a $2,200 bill after their trapper come for the third trip without catching anything. Totally unethical business practice. I called on Dec 29th 2025 for quote, received the invoice on Jan 6th 2026. Then immediately called the lady to question the bill. I asked the lady to cancel the service and pay the trips already happened. She sent me the adjusted invoice still for $1,100 for 3 trips. One of the 3 trips was only stop by the gate because the trapper could not get in the community gate. The lady then threaten legal actions to the customer and want to put a lien on customer's property.

Bruce, our representative came out and inspected our attic and did a very thorough professional job.

Southern wildlife is awesome. They took care of my squirell problem and made sure no other critters were around. I truly appreciate their wonderful staff. Hopefully I won’t have any other critters but if I do I will absolutely call them.

I contacted Southern wild life to assist me with removing squirrels in my attic and providing a quote for sealing the house. Rick came the first day and placed some traps around the house and let me know I would have a quote the next day once he measured everything. The following few days Bruce came over and I believe on the third visit I asked about the quote. He said he didn’t know it wasn’t measured and would provide me with one soon. After the service was completed, and yes they included a 5th visit “free of charge” and placed traps inside my attic, I continued to hear the squirrels in my attic. I was told that there is no guarantee for the service and the only way was to proceed with sealing the house. The cost for me was $425. The quote provided was very general and almost 2k. I asked for pictures of problem areas and a description of problem areas specific to my house and I was told they don’t provide this service. I mentioned I had received a different quote from another company and pointed the reason for my request being transparency. I was told that “it sounds like you feel more comfortable moving forward with the other company”. I don’t appreciate being told how I feel and it felt very much like there was no interesse in providing me services for sealing from the beginning. They offered me a 5 year warranty free of further charge with their quote hence why I was still interested. They did catch 4 squirrels with the trap, and again it did not help at all. Everyone specially Rick and Bruce was very cordial when coming to my house, and letting me know ahead of time when they would arrive every day, however the last email from Verron felt very wrong to me. Not good communication.

Responsive, friendly and more importantly, they get the job done!

We paid $500 for ground mole trapping. Days after the final service we noticed new activity but there isn’t any sort of warranty or follow up offered. They were friendly but my review is more for the service to value. Buy your own traps and poison worms…you’ll save hundreds. We just received our own supplies in the mail to continue the work the $500 didn’t finish.

Wonderful company with great people! Came quickly after I discovered that I had a yellow jacket nest by the tree that was just cut down. The tree company couldn’t grind the stump due to being attacked by the yellow jackets. Bruce did a wonderful job discovering where the nest was and removing the bees without using any chemicals. Since I have someone in the house with Parkinson’s and Cancer I was very thankful for the nontoxic approach. As well, their prices are very fair. Totally satisfied!

My deer removal was quick and the techs were friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. Thank you.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We had a great experience with Southern Wildlife Management! They showed up right on time, were professional, honest, and incredibly trustworthy throughout the entire process. It’s refreshing to work with a company that truly cares about doing things the right way. Highly recommend!

Had a baby deer die in my yard overnight (broke my heart) and didn't know who to call. Googled and took a chance on Southern Wildlife and boy am I glad I did. They were absolutely wonderful, very caring. They came arrived to my home within 2 hours of me calling. And they didn't charge me and arm and a leg.

Immediate reponse, quality service. The tech guy is clear and polite, answered all the questions. Great job!

Met my expectations by capturing 7 chipmunks and a squirrel even relocated to their property. Here are my concerns: Was not happy with communication with Techs was unaware of my end date and was surprised when all traps were taken. Suggest either text message or phone mail msg confirming last day of services. Was not happy with sarcastic communication with Ms. Vernon regarding my texting techs at end of day informing them of the animals trapped and being accused of romping around the traps when I clearly saw the cage was closed and an animal was inside. Also be aware how to open and close traps as we had a bird caught and upon release were informed we broke the trap. I feel $350 was a lot of money for this process especially when you can purchase the traps from Ace Hardware for $19.99 put honey, peanut butter and some corn and relocate the critters to the woods yourself. This was a learning experience for me. In my 30 years as a business professional I’ve learned the customer is always right and should be treated with respect not condemned for honest feedback.

They caught the raccoon in my neighborhood the third day they put the trapping cage. BUT the 2nd day, a new raccoon in coming into the same attic. They would charge the another fee. We searched other methods online and found a simple solution. Just light up your attic light (I put another light) and put a radio there. The 2nd raccoon ran away and never came back.

Not professional!!!! Wanted to charge 450.00 to remove a dead deer, very arrogant and demanding.