Raccoon Removal in The Highlands
Century-old homes, Cherokee Park next door, and one of the busiest restaurant strips in the city — The Highlands is the single most active neighborhood in our entire service area for raccoon calls.
Old Houses, Old Trees, and a 400-Acre Park
The math is simple: Cherokee Park holds a large, permanent raccoon population; the surrounding streets are lined with mature oaks and maples whose limbs touch rooflines; and Victorian-era homes have dozens of potential entry points modern houses don't — unlined chimneys, decorative gable vents, slate roof valleys, and knob-and-tube-era attic layouts full of den-friendly cavities.
Chimneys deserve special mention. Highlands homes often have two or three original flues, and an uncapped chimney is the #1 way raccoons enter here. A female raccoon sees an open flue as a perfect hollow tree — and once she has kits on the smoke shelf, DIY removal becomes impossible.
Common Highlands Questions
There's a raccoon in my chimney — can I just light a fire?
Please don't. If babies are present they can't climb out, and smoke rarely drives out an adult before serious harm. We remove chimney raccoons humanely and install a code-compliant cap so it never happens again.
Will exclusion work damage my home's historic character?
No. We work on Cherokee Triangle homes regularly and use materials and techniques that respect original architecture — no visible mesh, no mismatched patches on street-facing elevations.
Why are raccoons in my garden trash every night on Bardstown Road?
The restaurant corridor feeds a large nightly forager population. Secure bins help, but repeat visitors usually mean a den within a couple hundred yards — often an uncapped chimney or a neighbor's soffit.
Highlands Raccoon Help, Same-Day
From Cherokee Triangle to Deer Park, call for a free quote from the team that knows these old houses best.
Call (502) 305-7505