Value
Faith
Love God. Serve people. Stop pests. The order matters. We answer to a standard higher than the customer’s checkbook.
Family-owned · Women-owned · Richmond, TX
The crew behind Rhino Pest Protection.
A five-person field crew. Thirty-seven years of combined pest control experience. One Richmond, TX home base. We treat Greater Houston homes and businesses the way we’d treat our own — honest, careful, and on time.
QualityPro Certified TX Lic. TPLC0887540 5.0★ · 280 Google reviews
- Free Inspection
- 24-Hour Response
- Free Re-Treat Between Visits
- TX License TPLC0887540
- NextDoor Neighborhood Favorite
- Family-Owned in Richmond, TX
- Pet- and Kid-Aware Treatments
- Same Tech, Every Visit
Why Rhino exists
A people business that happens to do pest control.
Gary Kirkowski’s specialty has always been people — reading them, understanding them, connecting with them. He started in pest control on the sales side, moved up to sales manager, then general manager of a pest control company before going out on his own to build Rhino the way he believed it should be built.
Headquartered in Richmond, TX, Rhino is family-owned and women-owned. Gary’s wife Crosby Kirkowski is co-owner and Office Administrator. The company is rooted in Fort Bend County and grown by referrals from neighbors, school districts, and chambers across Greater Houston.
The mission on the truck — Love God. Serve people. Stop pests. — isn’t a marketing line. It’s the order Gary lives in.
A note from Gary
“It isn’t a marketing line — it’s the heartbeat of who I am. My first priority in every aspect of my life is God and my relationship with Him. The byproduct of that is the desire to serve and help people. Stop pests is what a pest control company does — that’s a given. It’s the first two things that set us apart. Loving God and serving people is what makes us so good at stopping pests. The mission works in reverse too: we stop pests, which lets us serve people, which can give us an opportunity to talk to people about loving God.”
Gary Kirkowski
Founder · Rhino Pest Protection
The non-negotiable
The one thing Gary would never let slip, even if it cost the company money.
Relationships. That word covers a lot of ground at Rhino — customer service, community involvement, sponsorships, the way the crew shows up.
If a customer has trouble paying a bill because of extenuating circumstances, the service still happens. If there’s a death in the family or a new baby, a card goes out. It isn’t a transactional “customer service” pledge with policies and exceptions — it’s how Gary and Crosby want every Rhino customer to be treated, full stop.
That’s why the same techs come back every visit. Why the chambers and ISDs Rhino sponsors get genuine support, not logo placement. Why Gary still picks up the phone for customers he’s served for years.
By the numbers
A track record built one house at a time.
37+
Years combined experience
Across the Rhino crew
600+
Properties served
Across Greater Houston
13,000+
Jobs completed
And counting
5.0★
Google rating
280+ reviews
Our values
Five words that drive every visit.
Faith. Integrity. Service. Excellence. Community. Not slogans — the actual filter every job runs through.
Value
Integrity
If a treatment isn’t needed, we don’t sell it. If a gap can be sealed with a $4 hardware-store fix, we point at it. The job is the truth, not the upsell.
Value
Service
Same techs every visit. 24-hour arrival when scheduling allows. Free re-treats between visits. Pet- and family-aware on every product, every time.
Value
Excellence
QualityPro Certified. Smith Driving Certified. Texas-licensed under TPLC0887540. Combined decades of pest-control experience across the crew. Detailed service report every visit.
Value
Community
Fulshear Chamber Board of Directors. Chamber Chaplain. School-district sponsorships across Lamar, Deer Park, Rice, Texas City, Caldwell, Splendora, and Sweeny ISDs.
The Rhino crew
Same faces. Every visit. Every season.
Meet the crew
Same faces. Every visit.
Rhino runs as a family business with a tight crew. Gary and Crosby Kirkowski own and run the company. Four field technicians and one sales canvasser cover Fort Bend and Greater Houston. The big chains rotate techs through your home like a lottery. We don’t.
That continuity matters more than people realize. Your tech remembers the wasp nest by the eaves last summer, the rats that came in through the garage seal, the mosquito hot spot near the irrigation line. Pattern recognition is what fixes pests for good.
Owners
Founder · Owner
Gary Kirkowski
Started in pest control sales, moved through sales manager and general manager roles, then founded Rhino. Fulshear Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Chamber Chaplain, and active BNI (Business Network International) member.
Co-Owner · Office Administrator
Crosby Kirkowski
Co-owner and Office Administrator. The reason Rhino is a women-owned business and the person who keeps the back office running so the field crew can focus on the work.
The crew
Ops Manager
Matthew Puente
4 yrs Rhino · 9 yrs industry
Operations Manager and Launch Partner. Level-headed and unruffled under pressure. Loves people, problem-solves on the fly.
Technician
Jose Puente
2 yrs Rhino · 9 yrs industry
Easily relates to customers and the problems they’re calling about. Goes above and beyond to make sure people feel taken care of — the kind of work that gets him named in 5-star reviews.
Technician
Chuck Firmin
1 yr Rhino · 3 yrs industry
By-the-book and methodical. Early riser, first truck out, gets the work done the right way.
Technician
Carl Drexler
<1 yr Rhino · 3 yrs industry
Deeply thorough and pest-industry educated. Knows the bugs, the chemistry, and the equipment cold — the tech to ask the technical question.
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Sales Canvasser
Jackson Canady
<1 yr Rhino
Youngest one on the team and the personality to match — outgoing, funny, quirky. The friendly knock-on-the-door for new Rhino neighborhoods.
Credentials
Certified, licensed, and accountable.
The credentials a pest company carries are the credentials it answers to. Here’s the list we’re held to.
QualityPro Certified
National pest-control credential awarded to fewer than 4% of U.S. pest companies
Smith Driving Certified
Defensive-driving certification across the entire crew
Women-Owned Business
Family-owned and operated since founding
Trademarked Brand
The Rhino Pest Protection name is federally trademarked
TX Pest License
TPLC0887540 — Texas Department of Agriculture licensed
Coming in 2026
Registering with NPMA, TPCA, GHPCA, and ACE credentials
In the community
We’re not strangers in your neighborhood.
Rhino backs the schools, chambers, and missions across Fort Bend, Brazoria, and Harris counties. Local on paper and in practice.
Proud supporter
- Lamar ISD
- Deer Park ISD
- Rice ISD
- Texas City ISD
- Caldwell ISD
- Splendora ISD
- Sweeny ISD
- City of Fulshear
- Port Houston
Member
- Fulshear Regional Chamber FOR Commerce
- BNI
- Central Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce
- Choice Partners Government Co-Op
- NextDoor Neighborhood Favorite
Gary serves on the Fulshear Regional Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and as Chamber Chaplain.
Private schools served
- Central Christian AcademyHouston
- Faith West AcademyKaty
- Rhodes School of Performing ArtsPrivate school
- The Mela SchoolPrivate school
- Kids R Kids Learning AcademyLearning academy
Charity & community partners
- Thrive ChurchFulshear
- MisFits MissionRosenberg
- Boaz HouseBrookshire
Ready when you are
Meet the crew at your front door.
Free inspection, no obligation. We’ll be there within 24 hours when scheduling allows — the same Rhino tech, every visit.