Meet Austin Jahner & Nashville Wildlife Pros
Raised in the trade. Devoted to the animals. New to Nashville, not to the work. (615) 422-5923Nashville Wildlife Pros is a family wildlife removal company led by Austin Jahner — the youngest of three brothers who grew up in the business their father built. Getting an animal out of somebody's house, and making sure it can't get back in, is the kind of work where corners get cut all the time. It's also the kind of work where a family name is on the line. We treat it that way.
Two rules were drilled into Austin long before he had a truck of his own: take care of the homeowner, and take care of the animal. Neither one gets sacrificed for the other. Humane wildlife removal isn't a slogan we put on the door — it's the way the family has worked since day one, from trap checks to hand-raised orphans delivered to licensed rehabilitators.
Three Brothers, Three Territories, One Standard
The business started with a toolbox, not a trap. Gregory Jahner spent his career as a master carpenter in Westchester County, New York, and in 1998 a client asked him a question no exterminator had answered well: can you get the squirrels out of my attic and fix the house so it never happens again? He could. Word spread, and a wildlife company grew out of a carpentry shop — one that found every opening, removed every animal without harming it, and closed the building up so cleanly you couldn't tell anything had ever gone wrong.
Nearly three decades later, Gregory's three sons each run a territory. Kris covers New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Thomas covers southeastern Pennsylvania. Austin — featured on CBS News in New York and ABC News in Philadelphia before heading south — brought the family playbook to Middle Tennessee, where Nashville Wildlife Pros is the newest branch of the operation. New city, same phone manners, same materials, same refusal to leave a visible patch on somebody's home.
Being the newest location cuts one way that matters to you: everything here was already proven somewhere else. The eviction methods, the sealing details, the guarantee language — all of it has decades of family jobs behind it before it ever touched a Tennessee roofline.
Work You Can't See From the Street
Our test for a finished repair is simple: if a neighbor walking their dog can pick out where we worked, we're not done yet.
Bat Exclusion
Forest Hills, TN
A stone-and-cedar home in Forest Hills had bats slipping in where the fascia met the stone — a gap thinner than a pencil, running most of the roofline. After the colony left through one-way devices, we fabricated metal flashing to follow that seam exactly, fastened it mechanically, and finished it to the cedar's stain. From the driveway, the roofline reads original. From a bat's perspective, the building is closed.
Gable Vent Screening
Franklin, TN
On a Franklin new build barely three years old, squirrels had chewed the corner of a decorative gable vent and moved into the attic. Instead of stapling wire over the builder's vent, we cut a rigid screen panel to the vent's exact profile, set it behind the louvers, and painted the repaired corner to the trim color. The vent still breathes, the squirrels stay out, and the HOA never had a reason to send a letter.
Crawl Space Rodent Proofing
Crieve Hall, TN
Middle Tennessee is crawl space country, and this 1960s Crieve Hall ranch was a classic case: rodents moving through failed vent screens and gaps at the sill. We replaced every vent screen with fitted galvanized hardware cloth, packed and sealed the sill gaps with copper mesh and mortar-grade sealant, and left the crawl space ventilating properly. No spray foam anywhere on the job — foam is a chew toy, not a barrier.
Animal Lovers With Ladders
Every company in this industry claims to be humane. Here's what the word costs us in practice.
Traps get checked constantly — an animal doesn't sit in a cage in the Tennessee sun while we finish other stops. Any trapped female is examined for signs of nursing before we touch a single entry point, and if she has young in the structure, we go find them by hand so the family leaves together. Orphaned babies go straight to a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Bats never touch a trap at all — a one-way device lets each bat fly out for the evening feed and refuses to readmit it, and that work gets scheduled around maternity season, because a flightless pup trapped behind fresh sealing is a line we won't cross.
Poison never comes into it. A poisoned animal dies where you can't retrieve it, the smell tells you exactly how that went, and the hole it used is still wide open for the next one. We trap, we evict, we seal — and every animal we handle is treated humanely and in accordance with Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency regulations.
"You could tell he cared as much about doing right by the animals as he did about fixing our house."
Wildlife Removal vs. Pest Control: We're Not Exterminators
The gap between a wildlife removal company and a pest control route technician is wider than most homeowners realize — and it's usually the reason we're the second company called, not the first.
What the Typical Pest Company Does
What We Do
Licensed & Insured
Tennessee ADC Permitted
Working in accordance with TWRA regulations
Family Trained
Across three state regions
In Writing, or It Doesn't Count
Anyone can promise the animals won't come back. We put it on paper: our exclusion work carries a 10-year written guarantee, and if wildlife works its way back inside through any point we closed, the return visit costs you nothing.
We can write guarantees like that because the materials underneath them are chosen to outlast the paperwork — metal, masonry, and manufacturer-warranted sealants instead of foam and staples. And it's why so much of the family's work, in every territory, arrives by referral: when the fix actually holds, your customers do the advertising.
What Nashville Homeowners Say
We heard scratching over the bedroom for two weeks and got three different diagnoses from three different companies. Austin actually went into the attic, showed us photos of the entry points, and had the squirrels trapped and the roofline sealed within days. The repairs match the house so well I had to point them out to my husband.
A bat got into our den on a Sunday night and I was near tears when I called. Austin talked me through it on the phone, came out, caught it, and walked the whole house with a flashlight before he left. We booked the full seal-up on the spot.
Raccoons destroyed the insulation over our garage. Austin documented everything for our insurance company, handled the trapping humanely, and the attic looks brand new. Straight answers the entire way through.
Recent 5-star review
"Austin did a fabulous job getting rid of our bat problem - HUMANELY. He is extremely professional and knowledgeable. I feel comforted knowing his work is reliable!"
We Find What a Flashlight Misses
A removal is only as good as the inspection underneath it. We ladder and crawl the whole structure — roofline, ridge, vents, soffits, foundation, crawl space — and back the eyeballs with camera monitoring and daily trap checks, so outcomes get verified instead of guessed at. Every entry point found, every result confirmed, every job documented.
Ready to Talk?
Start with whatever you've got — the sound that woke you up, the smell you can't place, or the thing you watched dart under the deck.
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