Wildlife Trapping New York City

The Animal Is Gone. It Stays Gone.

When something is scratching in your ceiling at 2 a.m., you don’t need a brochure — you need someone who knows what they’re doing. We handle humane wildlife trapping and relocation across New York City, and we’ve been doing it since 1985.

100+

Years Of Collective Experience

24/7

Emergency Pest Control Calls

40+

Years Serving NYC & Long Island

DEC-Licensed Wildlife Operators

Our technicians hold New York State DEC NWCO licensing — the specific credential required to legally trap and relocate wildlife in New York City.

BBB A+ Accredited Since 1985

Over 35 consecutive years of A+ standing with the Better Business Bureau. That’s third-party verified — not a badge we gave ourselves.

Written Estimate Before Any Work

You get a clear, written cost estimate after our inspection — before a single trap is set. No surprises on the invoice.

One Company, Every Problem

We handle wildlife, rodents, insects, and more in-house. You won’t be handed off to another company mid-job.

Humane Wildlife Removal New York City

New York City's Green Corridors Push Wildlife Into Your Home

New York City isn’t just buildings and pavement. Marine Park borders Jamaica Bay. Prospect Park sits in the middle of Brooklyn. Forest Park cuts through Queens. The Staten Island Greenbelt covers nearly 2,800 acres. These green corridors are home to raccoons, squirrels, opossums, and skunks — and every fall, when temperatures drop, those animals start looking for somewhere warmer to spend the night. That somewhere is often your attic, your soffit, or the space behind your walls. This isn’t random. It’s a pattern we’ve watched play out across Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island for four decades. The animals know these neighborhoods. So do we. Humane wildlife trapping and relocation in New York City means capturing animals alive using live traps, then removing them from your property legally and safely. It also means figuring out how they got in — and making sure they can’t again.

Animal Trapping Services New York City

What Changes After We Come Out

You stop hearing the scratching, stop worrying about damage, and stop wondering what's living in your walls — for good.

The animal is removed alive and relocated — no poison, no harm, no mess left behind for you to deal with.

Entry points are identified and sealed so the same opening doesn’t become a revolving door for the next animal.

You receive a written assessment of what we found, what we did, and what was sealed — useful documentation if you’re a landlord or property manager.

Wildlife removal is handled alongside any related pest issues — rodents near the same entry points, insects in nesting material — without calling a second company.

You know exactly what the job costs before we start — no open-ended billing after the fact.

If you’ve already had another company out and the animal came back, we’ll tell you why and fix what was missed.

Nuisance Wildlife Control New York City

Why DIY Trapping Isn't Legal in New York City

A lot of homeowners find this out the hard way: in New York State, it is illegal to trap and relocate wildlife without a valid Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator license issued by the DEC. That means buying a cage trap at the hardware store, catching a raccoon, and driving it to a park is not a legal option — regardless of how reasonable it sounds. If you’re caught, the liability falls on you as the property owner. This isn’t a technicality worth ignoring. It’s the reason licensing matters when you’re choosing who to call. Any company setting traps on your property should be able to give you their NWCO license number. We can. Our technicians operate under full DEC authorization, which means every trap we set, every animal we move, and every relocation we perform is done by the book. That protects you, not just the animal. New York State has over 1,000 licensed NWCOs — which means you have options. What separates a thorough job from a temporary one isn’t just the license. It’s whether the company addresses the entry points after the animal is out. We do.

Wildlife Relocation New York City

Removal Is Step One. Exclusion Is the Job.

The most common call we get goes something like this: “We had someone out six weeks ago and there’s something up there again.” It happens constantly, and the reason is almost always the same — the animal was removed, but the entry point wasn’t sealed. In New York City’s older building stock — pre-war brownstones, attached row houses, flat-roofed apartment buildings — there are often multiple potential entry points along a shared roofline or deteriorating soffit. If you seal one and miss two others, you haven’t solved anything. A new animal, or the same one, finds its way back in within days. After we remove the animal, we identify and seal the access points so the problem is actually finished. We also flag any adjacent conditions — damaged fascia boards, unsealed chimney caps, gaps around utility penetrations — that could invite the next visitor. That’s what a complete job looks like. Anything short of that is just buying time.