Animal Hoarding Clean Up
Animal hoarding can be a complicated issue and, depending on the severity, may require extensive biohazard cleanup. Hawaii Hoarders understands the unique challenges of animal hoarding cleanup and offers compassionate, thorough, and professional services to help individuals restore their homes and lives.
What is animal hoarding?
Animal hoarding occurs when a person keeps more animals than they can provide proper sanitation, nutrition, and medical care for. Animals in these hoarding situations can include, but isn’t limited to, cats, dogs, rats, birds, reptiles, and farm animals. Though a person hoards animals, they believe they are rescuing the creatures, but since have become overwhelmed by the responsibility. With too many to truly care for, the animals quickly become malnourished and diseased. As a result, the home and property can be covered with dirt, pests, urine, feces, and dead carcasses. Such conditions create a serious biohazard issue and for the sake of both the people living there and the animals, the home needs professional biohazard cleanup after the animals have been removed.
The dangers of animal hoarding
When animal hoarding occurs, a home quickly deteriorates under all the urine and feces and is a health hazard to any living thing. With a wide variety of diseases and bacteria on the surfaces and in the air, it’s important to conduct a proper cleanout and disinfection of the property. Even after removing all the animals, cleaning the home can be an extensive process since hazardous materials have likely soaked through structural layers of the building. Before the property is livable for human or animal occupancy, all biohazards need to be removed, and the remaining surfaces need to be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. Hazards can include:
- Feces: Feces from animals, pests, and even humans have likely built up over time and contain a wide variety of diseases and bacteria.
- Urine: Urine from the animals builds up throughout the house, soaking through structural layers, and leaving toxic ammonia in the air.
- Pests: Pests, including a variety of insects and rodents such as fleas, rats, cockroaches, and mice, are attracted to an animal hoard and carry a variety of diseases.
- Dead animals: Animals may have passed away without proper disposal of the body. As they decompose, additional pests, bacteria, and blood-borne pathogens flourish.
- Vomit: The vomit of sick animals carries harmful bacteria.
- Rotten food and garbage: In animal hoarding situations, food and garbage are often left out, welcoming mold and bacteria.
- Structural issues: Without proper upkeep, a hoarded property often deteriorates, both in noticeable and unseen ways.
Hawaii Hoarders is here for animal hoarding cleanup
Once animals have safely been removed from a home, the biohazard cleaning can begin. This is not a task you want to undertake on your own as there are numerous hazards that can hurt you. With the numerous hazards of animal hoarding listed above, hiring a professional biohazard cleanup company is an important step in the cleanup process. Our team at Hawaii Hoarders knows how to keep you safe by safely transporting and disposing of all hazards, thoroughly cleaning and decontaminating all nooks and crannies, and utilizing odor removal to make sure the property smells fresh and clean. By using the latest cleaning technologies and personal protective equipment, we meticulously work through a space to restore the property to safety.
Call now for immediate assistance
Call Hawaii Hoarders to discuss your options and to schedule a FREE in home estimate. All calls are confidential, and you will speak directly with the owner 24/7 to determine how we can help.
Hawaii Hoarders is the trusted biohazard cleanup company throughout the islands. Caring for you as we do for our own loved ones, our team are the compassionate and professional animal hoarding cleanup service you can turn to. Let us be your trusted partner in creating a fresh start.
