Philadelphia Wildlife Removal — Rowhomes, Twins & More

City wildlife is still wildlife — it just has better real estate options. Montgomery Wildlife works Philadelphia's residential neighborhoods with the same family carpentry background we bring to the suburbs, which matters most exactly here: on a block of connected rooflines, a sloppy patch on one house is an open door for the whole row.

Humane removal and eviction, in accordance with Pennsylvania Game Commission regulations
Rowhome-savvy exclusion that accounts for party walls, shared cornices, and flat-roof details
A written 10-year guarantee on every opening we close

Discreet trucks, clean work, and a repair your block won't even notice.

"The raccoon was out of our chimney the next day and the cap they installed looks like it came with the house."

— Placeholder review, Chestnut Hill (pending real GBP review)

What We Remove

Species We Handle in Philadelphia

Raccoon Removal

The classic Philly call: a raccoon denned in an uncapped chimney or above a bay window. Trapped humanely, kits with mother, entry capped and rebuilt.

Squirrel Removal

Grays running the wire-and-roofline highway into cornices and flat-roof edges. Trapped, removed, sealed out.

Bat Removal

Emergency capture in the living space, one-way colony eviction above it, and a roofline sealed under our 10-year written guarantee.

Bird Removal

Pigeons on ledges, starlings in vents, sparrows behind shutters. Nests removed, openings screened, droppings cleaned.

Rodent Removal

Mice and rats controlled the right way for dense blocks — targeted trapping and a sealed shell, never poison that dies in a party wall.

Opossum Removal

Gently removed from yards, garages, and under back porches, pouch young accounted for.

Groundhog Removal

Yes, in the city — under sheds, stoops, and garden slabs in the greener neighborhoods. Trapped and barricaded out.

Dead Deer Removal

For properties along the parks and the Northeast's wooded edges: fast, discreet removal, quoted by phone.

Prevention & Restoration

One Tight Shell. One Clean Attic.

Wildlife Exclusion

The full envelope sealed — cornice to foundation, including the details rowhomes hide — with a written 10-year guarantee.

Attic & Crawlspace Cleaning

Contaminated insulation removed, surfaces HEPA-vacuumed and treated, the space restored and documented for your insurance claim.

Local Knowledge

Party Walls, Uncapped Chimneys, and a Very Long Park

Philadelphia's residential fabric is built for wildlife sharing. Rowhomes and twins mean continuous rooflines: a squirrel that enters a failed cornice four doors down can travel the joists to your ceiling without ever going back outside, and box gutters and flat-roof seams give animals covered routes the length of the block. Uncapped chimneys are the city's single most reliable raccoon den — Northwest Philly's stone singles and Victorian twins in Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy, and Germantown have them by the thousands. Out in the Northeast, Fox Chase and Somerton's postwar rows and ranchers are reaching the age where original soffits and fascia give way.

And then there's the green. The Wissahickon gorge runs a forested corridor straight through the Northwest, Pennypack Park does the same for the Northeast, and Fairmount Park stitches it all to the river. Houses backing onto those corridors get suburban-level wildlife pressure with rowhome-level entry points — which is exactly the combination that keeps our phone ringing.

How We Work

Block-Smart Wildlife Control

We start with a free inspection that respects how city houses actually work — your roofline, the neighbors' adjoining details, the chimney, the vents, the back-alley side nobody looks at — and put the findings into a written, itemized estimate. Removal is humane: live trapping, one-way eviction, no poison, families kept intact, all per Pennsylvania Game Commission regulations. Repairs are fabricated to match the house — caps, cornice rebuilds, screened vents — and carry the written 10-year guarantee. If solving your problem properly means a conversation with the neighbor whose soffit is the real front door, we'll have it with you.

Raccoon Removal

Cornice Entry Sealed

Ledge Screening

Bat One-Way Device

What Customers Say

Reviews from Philadelphia

"Two other companies refused to deal with a rowhome roof. Montgomery Wildlife sealed the whole cornice line and the scratching stopped that week."

Placeholder review

Manayunk · pending real GBP review

"The raccoon was out of our chimney the next day and the cap they installed looks like it came with the house. Humane the whole way through."

Placeholder review

Chestnut Hill · pending real GBP review

Common Questions

Philadelphia Wildlife FAQ

Do you actually service the city, or just the suburbs?

The city, genuinely — our Philadelphia work concentrates in the residential Northwest along the Wissahickon (Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy, Germantown, Roxborough, Manayunk) and across the Northeast (Fox Chase, Somerton, and the neighborhoods around Pennypack).

What's the most common animal problem in Philly homes?

Raccoons in uncapped chimneys and squirrels in cornices, in roughly that order, with pigeons and starlings owning the vents and ledges. Bats turn up more often than city dwellers expect, especially in the older stone neighborhoods.

My rowhome shares walls. Can the problem even be fixed on just my house?

Usually yes — and when it can't, we'll tell you plainly. The inspection covers the adjoining roof details so we know whether your fix stands alone or needs the neighbor's cooperation, before you spend a dollar.

Is there a charge for the estimate?

No. The inspection and the written itemized estimate are free, whether it's a trinity, a twin, or a stone single.

Do you use poison for rats and mice?

Never — and in connected housing it's an especially bad idea, since poisoned rodents die in party walls and shared ceilings. We trap, remove, and seal instead.

A raccoon or bat is in my house right now. What do I do?

Close it into one room if you safely can and call (267) 647-6674 — animals inside the living space are priority calls, and a bat in a bedroom should be captured for testing rather than shooed out a window.

Case Study: Manayunk — A Raccoon Family Three Flues Down

A Manayunk homeowner heard chirping in the living-room wall every evening — kits, as it turned out, denned on the smoke shelf of an uncapped chimney. Mom was using the roofline of the entire row as her commute. We confirmed the den with an inspection camera, waited for her evening exit, and hand-extracted the three kits into a warming box that drew her straight to our release point so the family stayed together. The flue was cleaned and fitted with a fabricated stainless cap matched to the row's brick, and two neighboring uncapped flues got caps the same week once the neighbors saw the work. Written 10-year guarantee on all three.

From the Field

Philadelphia Photo Gallery

Chimney Cap

Flat-Roof Seam Sealed

Vent Cleared & Screened

Bat One-Way Device

Cornice Rebuild

Raccoon Removal

Neighborhoods We Serve

Philadelphia Service Areas

Chestnut Hill · Roxborough · Manayunk · Mt. Airy · Germantown · Fox Chase · Somerton · Northeast Philadelphia — and the surrounding residential neighborhoods of the city.