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If you’ve got torn-up flower beds, holes along your foundation, or a fresh burrow under the porch, you’re probably dealing with an armadillo, and it won’t fix itself. We remove armadillos from properties all over Waco and McLennan County, and we do it the right way, humane trapping, no poison, and a plan to keep them from coming back. Armadillos don’t just dig one hole and move on. They’ll work a yard over for weeks, rooting for grubs and earthworms and expanding burrows under sheds, patios, and foundations. Left alone, that digging can undermine a slab, damage irrigation lines, and turn a nice yard into a minefield. We’ve handled hundreds of these calls across the Waco area and we know where armadillos den, how they move through a property, and what it takes to trap them out for good.
Cone-shaped holes in the lawn, torn-up mulch beds, and shallow trenches along fence lines are classic armadillo signs. Burrows are usually 7–8 inches wide and can run several feet underground, often ending up under a foundation, porch, or shed.
This is the one that worries us most. An armadillo burrowing too close to your slab can remove enough soil to cause settling and cracking over time. If we find active digging near your foundation, we treat it as a priority.
Armadillos are nocturnal, so if you're hearing rustling or digging sounds after dark, or your dog keeps alerting to the same corner of the yard every night, that's usually where the activity is centered.
Armadillos don’t respond to bait the way rodents do, so spraying repellent or setting a box trap with food inside almost never works. Trapping them takes the right equipment placed in the right spot, based on how the animal is actually moving through your property.
We walk the entire yard, garden, and perimeter to find active burrows, entry and exit points, and any structural risk near the home. This tells us exactly where to place traps instead of guessing.
We set humane cage traps directly along the travel paths and burrow entrances we identified during inspection — not just anywhere in the yard. Placement is the difference between catching the animal in a few nights or having empty traps for weeks.
Once an armadillo is caught, we remove it and check the traps again for continued activity. Most properties have more than one animal, so we keep monitoring until there's nothing left digging.
Once trapping is done, we fill in the old burrows and can install underground fencing along vulnerable areas so a new armadillo can't just move into the same spot.
We’re a wildlife-only company, not a general exterminator, and armadillos are one of the animals we deal with the most in this part of Texas. We don’t use poison, it’s inhumane and it doesn’t actually work on armadillos anyway. We show up, inspect the property, explain what’s going on, and get to work. Same-day and next-day appointments are available, and we’re on call around the clock.
Areas We Serve Ants Control
If you are in McLennan County or a nearby county, call us to confirm service availability at your address.
Armadillo Control FAQs
Not reliably. Armadillos aren’t drawn in by smell-based repellents or noise devices the way some animals are, and most of what’s sold online just doesn’t hold up. Trapping is the only method that actually removes the animal from your property.
Texas has specific rules around trapping and relocating wildlife, and it varies by county and situation. We handle everything within the proper guidelines so you don’t have to worry about it.
More than one, most of the time. If you’re only seeing one burrow, there’s a good chance another animal is using it or a second one is nearby. That’s why we keep monitoring after the first trap-out instead of calling it done too early.
: Not if we’ve closed off the burrow properly. Once trapping is complete, we fill the burrows and can add underground fencing in problem areas so a new animal can’t just take over the same spot.