Groundhog & Woodchuck Removal Services
Four services, one goal: get groundhogs off your property and keep them off. Every job in Louisville and Southern Indiana starts with a free quote and ends with a property that's protected — not just vacated.
(502) 638-2420 — Free QuoteGroundhog Trapping & Removal
Trapping is the core of every groundhog job, and doing it well is about placement, not luck. Groundhogs are creatures of habit — they use the same entrances and travel paths daily. We begin with a full-property inspection to identify every active burrow entrance (fresh dirt, clipped vegetation, and worn paths tell us which holes are in use), then set professional-grade live traps directly in those travel lanes.
We check traps daily, as required by both Kentucky and Indiana regulations, and captured animals are handled calmly and relocated legally. Most residential trapping jobs complete in 3-7 days. Multi-animal situations — a mother with young, or established colonies on farms — take longer, and we'll give you an honest timeline up front.
What's Included
- Full-property burrow inspection and activity mapping
- Professional live traps placed on active travel paths
- Daily trap checks per state regulations
- Legal handling and relocation in KY and IN
- Honest timelines — typically 3-7 days for residential jobs
Burrow Removal & Property Restoration
An empty burrow is an open invitation. Vacant groundhog burrows get re-occupied fast — by another groundhog, or by skunks, opossums, foxes, and rabbits. That's why we never consider a job done when the animal leaves. Every burrow system is probed to map its full extent, then filled and compacted in lifts so it can't simply be re-excavated or collapse into a sinkhole later.
Where burrowing has already caused damage — settled sidewalk sections, undermined shed footings, collapsed garden beds, eroded slopes — we assess it, document it, and repair what's within our scope. For structural issues that need a contractor, we provide clear documentation of the wildlife cause, which helps with repair planning and insurance conversations.
What's Included
- Full burrow system probing and mapping before filling
- Compacted backfill in lifts — prevents re-excavation and settling
- Lawn and garden bed restoration
- Damage documentation for contractors and insurance
- Slope and erosion remediation on hillside properties
Exclusion & Prevention
Removal solves today's problem; exclusion solves next year's. Groundhogs den under structures because the space is accessible — so we make it inaccessible. Our standard exclusion install is galvanized steel mesh trenched 18-24 inches below grade around decks, porches, sheds, and crawl-space perimeters, with an outward-bent L-footer that defeats digging. Once buried and dressed with soil or mulch, it's completely invisible.
We pair barriers with habitat modification: clearing brush piles near structures, recommending fence upgrades for gardens (buried mesh plus a floppy top edge to defeat climbing), and identifying the attractants — fallen fruit, accessible vegetable beds, unsecured compost — that brought groundhogs to your property in the first place.
What's Included
- Galvanized mesh barriers trenched 18-24 inches below grade
- L-footer design defeats digging; invisible once installed
- Deck, porch, shed, and crawl-space perimeter protection
- Garden fencing built for diggers and climbers
- Habitat and attractant assessment with every install
Maintenance Plans
Some properties will always face groundhog pressure — homes backing up to Cherokee Park or Floyds Fork, farms in Oldham and Shelby Counties, commercial grounds along creek corridors. For these, one-time removal is a treadmill. Our maintenance plans break the cycle with scheduled quarterly inspections that catch new burrow activity early, when it's a one-day fix instead of a week-long trapping job.
Plan members get priority scheduling for any new activity between visits, barrier inspection and repair, and seasonal walk-throughs timed to groundhog behavior — early spring before breeding dispersal, and late summer before young leave the den. Commercial plans include documented service reports for property management records.
What's Included
- Quarterly inspections timed to groundhog activity cycles
- Priority same-week scheduling for plan members
- Barrier and exclusion inspection with repair included
- Documented service reports for commercial properties
- Cancel anytime — no long-term contracts
Not Sure Which Service You Need?
That's what the free quote is for. Tell us what you're seeing — holes, dirt mounds, garden damage, or the animal itself — and we'll recommend the right approach. No pressure, no obligation.