Wildlife Removal in Brick Township, NJ
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Getting Nuisance Animals Out of Brick Homes, and Keeping Them Out
Something is moving around above the ceiling, and it has usually been there longer than you think. Most wildlife removal calls in Brick come after a week of noise, once a raccoon has widened a soffit return or a squirrel has opened a gable vent.
UFO Nuisance Wildlife Control is licensed to handle both halves of the job, the animal and the damage it leaves. Waiting only makes the opening wider and the cleanup costlier.
The usual signs:
- Scratching or thumping overhead, loudest at dawn and dusk
- Torn insulation, droppings, or a greasy rub mark near a vent
- A sour, musky smell from the attic, walls, or under the deck
Why Wildlife Keeps Finding Ways Into Shore-Area Homes
Brick is really three towns in one, and each draws wildlife differently:
- The bay lagoons of Shore Acres and Cherry Quay, where raised, bulkheaded homes leave open crawlspaces that skunks, groundhogs, and opossums den beneath.
- The wooded mainland around Herbertsville, Laurelton, and Lake Riviera, where mature oak canopy meets the roofline and hands squirrels and raccoons a bridge straight to the attic.
- The elevated coast, where many of the roughly 2,000 homes rebuilt since Hurricane Sandy now sit on pilings whose open undersides read as ready-made shelter.
Small gaps along soffits, ridge vents, roof returns, and chimney flashing finish the job. The same pressure runs the Metedeconk corridor down into Point Pleasant and Toms River, but Brick’s blend of lagoon, river, and dense inland canopy concentrates it here.
What Homeowners Say After We Fix the Problem
UFO provides professional services. We had issues with racoons in the attic. Josh did an excellent job trapping, treating the attic, and sealing roof return. We highly recommend Josh and UFO.
How We Handle Wildlife Removal in Brick, Start to Finish
Removal is one piece of it. The rest is closing the structure and cleaning up what the animal left.
Humane Trapping and Removal
Traps and one-way doors go where the animal is actually moving, not where they are easy to set. Litters and colonies leave on their own and reunite outside, never sealed in.
Exclusion Built for Salt Air
Screening, vent guards, and fasteners go in rated for Barnegat Bay exposure. Standard hardware corrodes on this side of the county and reopens the same gap within a couple of seasons.
Structural Repair
Chewed fascia, torn soffit returns, ruined vent covers, and the framing behind them get rebuilt by the same crew. We carry the repair side under our contractor license instead of passing it along.
Attic Cleanup and Sanitation
Droppings, urine, and nesting debris soak into insulation and vent into the rooms below. Attic cleanup and sanitation clears the material and treats the space before anything gets closed up.
The Animals We Get Called About Most Often
Brick Township’s wooded areas, waterfront homes, and suburban neighborhoods attract a range of nuisance wildlife.
Please note that UFO Nuisance Wildlife Control does not handle domestic animals like cats or dogs.
The heavyweights of attic intrusion, usually a female tearing open a soffit or chimney chase to nest. Raccoon removal is timed around the young, because a female sealed away from them will tear a new hole.
Chewed fascia and a fresh hole in a gable vent usually mean squirrels, and they come back. A squirrel job fails when one gnaw point gets missed, since they reopen a partial seal within days.
The ones you hear after dark, slipping through gaps as small as a quarter. Flying squirrel work is a colony problem, so the count matters more than the catch, and one left behind restarts it.
Attic voids make prime roosting space, and New Jersey law limits when a colony can be moved. Bat exclusion is the one job where the calendar, not the crew, decides when work can start.
Opossums
Open crawlspaces under elevated bayfront homes make easy denning, and the droppings and heavy smell come with them. The cleanup underneath is usually the bigger job, not the animal itself.
Burrowing under patios, sheds, and foundation footings is a mainland-side problem more than a lagoon one. Groundhog removal is worth doing early, because the settling and cracking show up long after the animal is gone.
You smell this one long before you see it, usually from under a deck or shed. Skunk work lives or dies on handling, since one wrong move leaves the spray in your siding for months.
Most are harmless, but they turn up in basements, crawlspaces, and garages, and nobody wants to meet one. Snake removal is really a gap problem, because they follow the mice already getting in.
The Season Decides How Fast You Need to Move
The month changes how urgent a noise overhead is, and what the job takes.
Winter: Denning and Births
Late winter is the heaviest stretch. Pregnant raccoons pull open roof returns and soffit ends on the wooded mainland side, and once the kits arrive it is no longer a simple removal. Quiet overhead rarely means gone.
Spring: Litters in the Walls and Vents
Squirrels raise their first litter while birds pack dryer and bathroom vents. One animal turns into five or six, and exclusion has to account for young that cannot leave on their own. The same surge runs north across the Manasquan into Wall.
Summer: Young on the Move
Juveniles disperse and test structures a few houses from where they were born, which is why one attic problem on a lagoon street often becomes three. Skunk and groundhog activity under decks and bulkhead stairs peaks alongside it.
Fall: Shelter Seeking
The first cold nights push wildlife toward attics, crawlspaces, and the open space beneath raised homes. Calls spike within days of a drop, not gradually. The same pattern runs south onto the barrier island in Lavallette once summer clears out.
What Happens After You Call
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Free Inspection, Roofline to Crawlspace
We come out at no charge and you walk it with us. Nothing is quoted until you have seen what is up there and how it got in.
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The Quote Comes Before the Work
Scope and price go in writing after the inspection, never a range over the phone. A bayfront home with an open underside usually needs more sealing than a mainland one, and you see why before approving anything.
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Daily Checks While Traps Are Set
Traps are checked on a set schedule so nothing sits in one longer than it has to. You hear from us after each check, not only at the end.
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Follow-Up and the Guarantee
We walk the finished work with you before the job closes out. If a sealed point fails later, the written guarantee brings us back.
Why Homeowners Call UFO When They Want the Job Done Correctly
Most wildlife companies trap the animal and hand you a list of contractors for the damage. We are a New Jersey licensed Home Improvement Contractor (HIC 13VH11098000), so the crew that removes the raccoon rebuilds the soffit and stands behind it. On Brick’s shore homes, one open roof return lets the next animal right back in.
- Owner-operated since 2020. Jesse Miller and Joshua Chambers run every job personally.
- Licensed to repair, not just trap, so there is no second contractor to schedule.
- 200+ five-star reviews across South Jersey, most pointing to clean attic work and seals that hold.
- Humane by background. Our owners volunteered at local sanctuaries, and we account for young before closing any entry point.
- Free inspections year-round, with a full walkthrough before any work begins.
- Written reentry guarantee. If a sealed point fails, we come back.
Quick Answers Before You Schedule
Do you handle seasonal homes that sit empty part of the year?
Yes, and they are some of the worst cases we see, because nothing gets caught until the owner comes back in spring. We inspect and seal shore rentals and second homes here and down the barrier island in Seaside Heights.
When can bats legally be removed from a home in New Jersey?
Not during maternity season, roughly May through August, when the pups cannot yet fly. Sealing then traps the young inside, so we time the exclusion to state rules and let the colony leave first.
Do raccoons and skunks around Ocean County carry rabies?
They can. New Jersey flags raccoons, skunks, bats, and groundhogs as rabies carriers, which is exactly why handling one yourself is a bad idea.
Do you offer emergency or same-day service in Brick?
When an animal is loose in a living space we treat it as urgent and reach you as fast as the schedule allows. We cover Brick and neighboring Howell year-round, so call and we will book the soonest opening.
Does removal cost more for bayfront or elevated homes?
It can. Raised and lagoon-front homes give animals more ways in, from open crawlspaces under pilings to bulkhead decks, so there is often more to seal. We price every job after the inspection, never before.
The Longer It Stays, the More Damage It Does
Every night an animal stays up there, it is chewing, nesting, and soiling insulation you will eventually pay to replace. An inspection today is the cheapest this problem will ever be. Reach out and we will find the entry point, get the animal out, and seal your Brick home so the next one does not follow it in.
Serving Brick Township and Surrounding Ocean County Communities
We provide wildlife removal services throughout Ocean County, including:
- Cape May County
- Pennsylvania