Armadillo Removal in Kennesaw, GA
Woke up to a lawn full of small cone-shaped holes and mulch thrown onto the walk? That's an armadillo, and nothing from the garden store will stop it. Call us and tell us about the job — we will confirm the local crew for your county before any work starts.
Armadillos digging in Kennesaw yards
Armadillos have been moving north through Georgia for years and are now a regular sight in Cobb County. Around Kennesaw they spend the day in brush and burrows along wooded edges — the margins of the park, the strips of trees behind subdivisions — and come out at night to dig in nearby lawns. They're after grubs, worms and insects in the soil, not your plants. What you find in the morning looks like someone poked the yard with a stick a hundred times, or like hogs rooted through the beds.
Hillside yards add a second problem. A raised deck on posts or the open ground beside a walkout basement makes a good place for a burrow, and an armadillo digging there can undermine footings and slabs over time. Repellents and home remedies don't work on them. What does is trapping by placement — reading where the animal travels and putting the trap right there.
What the damage looks like
The lawn shows shallow cone-shaped holes, a few inches across, scattered or in clusters, with turf flipped up beside them. Mulch and pine straw get thrown out of beds onto walks and driveways. Burrows are larger, rounded openings, often under a deck, shed, AC pad or the edge of a slab. The lawn holes are cosmetic and can be repaired; the burrows are what can cause real damage.
Why Kennesaw yards attract them
Armadillos want cover to sleep in and soft, damp soil to dig. Kennesaw's wooded edges supply the cover, and watered lawns and mulched beds on the slopes supply the soil and the grubs. After rain, when insects come close to the surface, digging usually picks up. The yards right next to wooded strips get hit first, and the problem tends to spread down the street from there.
Skip the repellents — and the grub treatment
Mothballs, castor-oil granules, predator urine and ultrasonic stakes don't keep armadillos away, and mothballs shouldn't be used for any animal problem. A grub treatment seems logical, but it's generally not recommended: with fewer grubs, the armadillo digs more holes looking for what's left, and the damage gets worse before it gets better.
Trapping is all about placement
There's nothing you can reliably bait an armadillo with, so the trap has to be where the animal already walks. A pro looks for the runs between the wooded edge and the lawn, along fences, walls and foundations, and near the burrow, then sets traps — often wooden box traps — right on those paths, sometimes with boards to guide the animal in. Georgia has no special restrictions on trapping armadillos, but placement takes experience.
Burrows under decks and slabs
On a sloped Kennesaw lot, the space under a high deck is dry, hidden and easy to dig into, and so is the soil next to a walkout basement or a patio slab. A burrow there can run several feet and wash out the soil under footings, slabs and AC pads over time. Once the armadillo is caught, the pro checks that nothing else is using the burrow before it's filled or closed.
Keeping the next one out
After removal, the pro closes off the space under decks, sheds and stoops with metal screening buried into the ground, so a new armadillo can't dig back in. Cutting back thick brush at the edge of the lawn takes away daytime cover. Without those steps, the empty burrow is an open invitation for the next armadillo.
Common armadillo questions in Kennesaw
Something is digging cone-shaped holes in my lawn in Kennesaw — what is it?+
Do armadillo repellents, mothballs or ultrasonic stakes work?+
There's a burrow under my deck or shed — is that an armadillo?+
How do you actually get rid of an armadillo?+
Will an armadillo damage my foundation?+
How much does armadillo removal cost in Kennesaw?+
Other Kennesaw problems that come with armadillos
Our wildlife crew handles these closely related problems — the ones that most often turn up with a armadillo issue.
Got more than armadillos in Kennesaw?
The same yards armadillos dig at night often have other animals moving through them. See everything we handle locally on the Kennesaw wildlife removal hub, or jump to Georgia wildlife removal.
Want the background before you call? Read our statewide guide: Armadillos tearing up your Georgia lawn.
One call to your Kennesaw armadillo crew
An armadillo digs every night it stays, and a burrow under a deck or slab gets bigger over time. Call us and tell us about the job — we will confirm the local crew for your county before any work starts.
- Local to Cobb County. Georgia DNR-compliant handling — call to ask about licensing and insurance.
- Placement, not bait. Traps set on the paths the armadillo already uses, then burrow access closed off.
- Done right. Removal, exclusion and cleanup.