This company mustn’t be used under any circumstances!!! They commit acts of animal cruelty. A few weeks ago, at my place of work there were a few feral cats present on the property, thus our property manager called Humane Animal Removal to have them removed. They sent out a trapper, we told the trapper that one of the female cats on the property had just given birth to some kittens a few days before and to not trap her because she is still breast feeding. We even requested he give us a couple of days so we could attempt to find the babies before he traps her. He vehemently refused, and gave us a nasty attitude!
Against our request he laid out his traps, and succeeded in trapping the mother, along with a few other adult cats. When he trapped the mother she was crying and meowing hysterically for her kittens, we tried to convince him for over 20 min to release her, and he rejected our requests. We even had another friend come in order to attempt to convince him to let her out of the trap, and he still didn’t care, he just threw the mother cat along with the others (whom were all in metal traps) into his "humane" company vehicle and drove them down to Miami Dade Animal Control Services to have them all euthanized. We just stood there helpless crying, and there was nothing in the whole world we could do about it.
It took us over 24 hrs to locate the kittens. When we did, one of them was already dead, the other 3 we immediately took to the vet. At the vet we were told the 3 surviving kittens were severely dehydrated and malnourished due to the fact they were separated for too long from their mother at such a very young age. They were so small, their eyes were still shut, the vet told us they were less than a week old. One of the kittens has been on iv's at the vet for the past 4 days, he is on the brink of death! The other 2 we have to feed with a special bottle several times a day.
We made a desperate attempt to contact Humane Animal Removal to ask them if they can change their policy concerning lactating female cats, and they refused. Since its obvious they are a money-making business. My best advice for anyone who has a cat problem, don't don't don't call this company, instead just spay neuter and release!!! There are plenty of low cost spaying and neutering clinics in South Florida, which charge as low as $25 to neuter a male cat, and $35 in order to spay a female cat (the reason its so cheap is because these services are provided to feral cats/ street cats only). By doing so you will keep the feral cat population under control, and thus the nazi butchers of Humane Animal Removal won't get called out to kill more cats!