Why can't you just trap the raccoon and drive it away?

Relocating wild animals far away is restricted by Ontario law to prevent disease transfer and animal suffering. Also, trapping a mother without finding her babies will leave the babies to starve in your attic. Eviction through a one-way door is the only humane, legal method.

Does city animal control remove raccoons from attics?

No. Municipal animal control in Toronto, Brampton, and Mississauga does not remove wildlife from private structures or attics. You must hire a private, licensed wildlife control service like Pestisect.

Can you clean up the raccoon droppings in my attic?

Yes. Raccoon feces is a severe biohazard potentially carrying dangerous roundworm spores. Our technicians use HEPA equipment and enzyme sanitizers to safely remove contaminated insulation and feces.

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Raccoon Damage

Raccoons Are Damaging Your Home?

Every day you wait, these destructive pests multiply and spread disease. Here’s what’s happening in your home right now:

Roof & Attic Damage

Tearing Open Your Roof

Raccoons use their strength to rip open shingles, soffits, and vents to get into your attic. This leads to serious water leaks, wood rot, and a pathway for other pests.

⚠️ Property Damage: $2,000-$10,000 in repairs

Insulation Contamination

Creating a Latrine in Your Attic

Raccoons will designate a corner of your attic as a toilet, soaking insulation with hazardous urine and feces. This destroys insulation value and creates a serious biohazard.

⚠️ Health Risk: Disease from raccoon roundworm

Ductwork Destruction

Shredding Your HVAC System

Inside attics, raccoons tear apart ductwork for fun or nesting. This circulates contaminated air throughout your home and costs a fortune in heating and cooling bills.

⚠️ Financial Cost: Skyrocketing energy bills

The Real Cost of Waiting

DIY trapping is illegal and inhumane, often separating mothers from babies. The only permanent solution is professional removal and exclusion.

Here is what is happening up there right now while you wait:

Crushing and Contaminating Insulation

Raccoons are heavy animals (10–25 lbs). As they walk across your attic, they trample and compress your insulation, instantly destroying your home's thermal efficiency and spiking your heating and cooling bills.

The Biohazard Latrine

Raccoons designate a specific area of the attic as their "latrine." Raccoon feces is incredibly dangerous—it frequently carries *Baylisascaris procyonis* (raccoon roundworm), whose airborne spores can cause severe neurological damage or blindness in humans if inhaled during cleanup.

Fire and Water Hazards

Raccoons have incredibly strong, dexterous hands. They rip apart HVAC ductwork. They chew on electrical wires, creating an immediate fire hazard. The holes they tear in your roof to get inside allow rain and snow directly into your attic, causing mold, rot, and ceiling leaks.

⏰ The longer you wait, the thousands of dollars in insulation replacement and roof repair will multiply.

Treatment Flow

Advanced Equipment & Methods

We use the latest wildlife control technology for maximum effectiveness

Humane Solutions

Long-Term Prevention

State-of-the-Art Equipment

Our Treatment Guarantee

Long-Term Guarantee

If raccoons get back in through our sealed work, we'll return and fix it for free.

Humane & Safe

All removal methods are safe for your family, pets, and the animals.

Property Protection

We take care to protect your home from any damage during the removal and repair process.

Raccoons Cause Trouble

The Raccoon in Your Attic Is Costing You Money Every Single Day

If you’re reading this, you are probably exhausted. You hear the heavy, thumping footsteps above your ceiling right when you’re trying to sleep. You hear scratching against the drywall. Or maybe you’ve noticed the torn shingles and a gaping hole in your roof soffit. You might be hoping the raccoon will just leave on its own. **It won’t.** Raccoons do not break into attics by accident. They break in to establish a permanent den to raise their young. An attic is warm, dry, and safe from predators—the absolute gold standard of real estate for a raccoon.

Roof Destruction

Raccoons tear off shingles, soffits, and fascia boards to create entry points, leading to leaks and rot.

Insulation & Wiring Damage

They shred insulation for nests and chew on electrical wires, creating serious fire hazards.

HVAC & Ductwork Damage

Raccoons tear open flexible ductwork, leading to massive energy loss and contaminated air circulation.

Property Value

An active raccoon infestation can significantly reduce your home's resale value.

High Repair Costs

Roof repairs, insulation replacement, and rewiring after a raccoon infestation can cost thousands.

Increased Energy Bills

Damaged insulation and ductwork means your HVAC system has to work much harder.

Raccoon Roundworm

Their feces can contain roundworm eggs, which are a serious health risk to humans and pets if inhaled or ingested.

Other Diseases & Parasites

Raccoons can carry rabies, distemper, fleas, and ticks, posing a threat to your family's health.

Safe Nesting Sites

Your attic is the perfect place to have babies: it's warm, dry, and safe from predators.

Food Sources

Poorly sealed garbage bins, composters, and pet food left outdoors are a raccoon buffet.

Easy Roof Access

Nearby trees, fences, and downspouts provide easy access to your roof, their main point of entry.

Weak Building Points

Raccoons can easily tear through old, rotting wood, and plastic or aluminum roof vents.

Attics

The #1 spot for raccoons to nest, offering warmth, shelter, and nesting materials.

Chimneys

Uncapped chimneys provide a secure, hollow den for raccoons to raise their young.

Sheds & Decks

The spaces under sheds and decks are common denning sites for raccoons.

Wall Voids & Crawlspaces

Any dark, undisturbed area can become a home for a raccoon family.

Did You Know?

A mother raccoon will aggressively defend her young. Attempting to remove her yourself can be dangerous and lead to serious injury.

Prevention Tips

DIY Prevention Tips (Until We Arrive)

While waiting for professional removal, here are steps you can take to make your Toronto home less attractive to raccoons:

⚠️ Why DIY Methods Often Fail

Never block a hole without confirming all raccoons are out. You could trap babies inside, where they will die and cause a terrible odor. A mother raccoon will cause immense damage trying to get back to them. Trapping and relocating is illegal in Ontario and rarely works.

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Secure Garbage Bins

Use bins with locking lids

Store bins in a garage or shed overnight

Use bungee cords to secure lids tightly

Clean bins regularly to reduce odors

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Limit Roof Access

Trim tree branches 6-8 feet from your roof

Remove trellises or vines against the house

Install baffles on downspouts

Keep your landscaping well-maintained

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Protect Entry Points

Install a professional-grade chimney cap

Cover exposed roof vents with steel mesh

Repair any existing roof damage immediately

Secure pet doors at night

🚨 Emergency same-day service available for severe infestations

Testimonial

Trusted By GTA Homeowners for Raccoon Control

I woke up to a huge crash and found a hole ripped directly through my roof vent. A raccoon had moved in with 4 babies. Pestisect came out within hours. They climbed into the attic, safely got the babies out, put them in a reunion box, and installed the one-way door. The mom came and got her babies that night. A week later the door was gone and a steel cage was over the vent. Flawless service.

Mark T.

Toronto (High Park)

Every spring we had raccoons trying to break into our soffits in Mississauga. We spent hundreds on a handyman patching it with wood, and the raccoons just tore it down again. Pestisect came in, removed the raccoons humanely, and installed custom steel mesh that looks great and is rock solid. We haven’t heard a sound in the attic in two years.

Sarah V.

Mississauga (Lorne Park)

I had a raccoon living under my backyard deck in Brampton that was territorial and scaring my dog. Pestisect dug a trench around the deck, installed heavy-gauge wire mesh deep into the ground, and used a one-way door to let the raccoon out. Highly professional and exactly as quoted.

Jamil A.

Brampton

Why Handymen and General Pest Companies Fail at Raccoons

Feature

Pestisect Wildlife Control

Typical Handyman / Pest Sprayer

Trained in baby extraction (attic diving)

✅ Yes

❌ No

Galvanized, heavy-gauge steel materials

✅ Yes

❌ Wood, chicken wire, foam

One-Way Door eviction systems

✅ Custom-fitted

❌ Often just traps and relocates

Follows Ministry of Natural Resources laws

✅ Strict compliance

❓ Unknown

Dedicated roof safety equipment

✅ Yes

❌ Dangerous ladder setups

Written guarantee against re-entry

✅ Yes

❌ No

How We Remove Raccoons

The Pestisect Solution: Humane Removal & Permanent Exclusion

We don’t use lethal traps, and we don’t use poisons. Raccoons are incredibly intelligent; if you simply patch the hole they made, they will rip it right back open.

The only way to solve a raccoon problem is a comprehensive system of humane eviction and heavy-duty structural reinforcement.

Deep Inspection & Baby Search

From March through July, almost every raccoon in an attic is a mother with a litter of babies hidden deep in the eaves. **This is critical:** if you trap or lock a mother out without finding her babies, the babies will die in your walls (creating a horrendous smell), and the mother will literally tear your roof to pieces trying to get back in to save them. Our trained technicians carefully locate and safely extract the babies by hand.

Humane One-Way Door Eviction

If there are babies, we place them safely in a heated "reunion box" outside, near the entry hole, where the mother will come and relocate them to one of her secondary dens. We then install a heavy-duty, customized One-Way Door over the main entry point on your roof. This spring-loaded door allows adult raccoons to push out to find food, but prevents them from pulling the door open to get back in.

Total Structural Exclusion

A raccoon that is locked out will patrol your roof looking for a weak spot to break back in. While the one-way door is in place, we "raccoon-proof" the rest of your house. We install thick, galvanized steel mesh over all roof vents, plumbing mats, chimneys, and vulnerable soffit intersections.

Final Seal & Restoration

Once we confirm the raccoon is gone (usually 3–5 days), we return, remove the one-way door, and permanently seal the primary entry hole with reinforced steel and weatherproofing materials. We can also provide quotes for contaminated insulation removal and attic sanitization.

Raccoon Removal Specialists Across the GTA

Toronto Raccoon Control: The "Raccoon Capital

Toronto is famously known as the raccoon capital of the world. Toronto raccoons are hyper-urbanized, fearless, and incredibly strong. Whether tearing off roof vents in East York, exploiting older brick chimneys in the Annex, or ripping into flat roofs in the Junction, our Toronto division understands exactly how to outsmart them. Because Toronto houses are often built close together, we safely employ high-ladder skills and specialized flashing installations.

Brampton Raccoon Control: Suburbs & Decks

In Brampton, while attic entries are common, we also see a massive volume of raccoons denning in the suburbs—living under low-clearance backyard decks, garden sheds, and porches. Newer subdivisions in Springdale and Castlemore often have plastic roof vents that raccoons pry open like tupperware lids. We upgrade these to heavy galvanized steel covers to prevent entry.

Mississauga Raccoon Control: Ravines & Wildlife Corridors

Mississauga combines robust residential zones with extensive ravine systems and the Credit River valley, providing perfect wildlife corridors. Raccoons travel these green spaces and invade nearby attics in Port Credit, Mineola, and Erin Mills. Our Mississauga team specializes in assessing home exteriors to fortify the specific weak points (like soffit intersections) that these ravine raccoons target.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why can't you just trap the raccoon and drive it far away?

Trapping and relocating adult raccoons sounds humane, but it is actually cruel and often illegal. Ontario’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act limits how far an animal can be relocated (max 1km) because relocating further spreads disease and usually results in the animal starving or being killed by territorial rivals. Furthermore, if you trap a mother and drive her away, her babies will starve to death in your attic. Eviction via one-way door is the only humane, legal, and effective method.

Are raccoons dangerous?

Raccoons are generally not aggressive to humans unless cornered to defend their babies. The real danger comes from their feces containing roundworm spores, their potential to carry rabies, and the physical damage they cause to your home’s electrical wiring. You should never approach a raccoon or enter an attic where one is living.

Can you clean up the mess they left in the attic?

Yes. Raccoon latrines are severe biohazards. Our team uses full-face HEPA respirators and Tyvek suits to safely remove contaminated insulation, sanitize the area with enzyme cleaners to kill roundworm eggs, and neutralize the pheromone odors that might attract future wildlife.

Who pays for the roof damage?

Raccoon removal and structural exclusion is a homeowner expense, but many home insurance policies cover the sudden, physical damage caused by raccoons (like torn shingles or damaged wiring). However, insurance companies require the animal to be removed first. Call us to remove the animal, and we can provide documentation of the entry point damage for your claims adjuster.

Does city animal control do this?

No. Municipal animal control in Toronto, Brampton, or Mississauga will generally only respond if an animal is outside and visibly diseased, injured, or dead on public property. They will not climb into your attic to remove a denning raccoon or repair your roof. This is strictly the domain of private wildlife control operators.

Stop the Damage Before the Babies Grow

Right now, that raccoon is comfortable. She is tearing up your insulation to build a soft bed. She is using a corner of your ceiling drywall as a toilet.

If she has babies in the spring, those babies will soon be mobile. Instead of one raccoon causing damage, you will have five or six young raccoons wrestling, exploring, and destroying your attic.

Get them out today. Keep them out forever.

All our structural exclusion work carries a comprehensive workmanship warranty. If a raccoon breaks back through our repair, we return and fix it for free.