Raccoons In Your Attic

As for raccoons it becomes extremely damaging in your attic.

Raccoons in your attic.

Springtime isn t only the season of blooming flowers and warmer weather. With spring come raccoons. This almost always involves an adult female and a litter of baby raccoons. Signs that raccoons are living in your attic you may hear the raccoons moving around in the attic.

It will always seek a safe shelter and a stable source of food and when it finds that in your attic it will invade it and settle down in it. This is a very complex case. This wild animal carries wild behavior which can never be adapted to metropolitan life. The problem is that there are almost always baby raccoons in the attic along with an adult female.

Raccoons are also often active in the daytime especially ones living in an attic see below so it s very common for people with a raccoon in the attic to actually see the animal as it climbs up the downspout and onto the roof or sniffs through the garbage can. You are most likely to hear them at night since raccoons are nocturnal. 5 signs you have a raccoon in the attic. Since raccoons are large animals you will probably hear thumping sounds or the sounds of the raccoons walking.

Here are the general steps for removing raccoons from an attic. This commonly happens from february to may when you are more likely to experience raccoon activity. Inspect the home and find the entry hole s which are very large and obvious. The main reason a raccoon may have made your attic his new den is because the female is about to give birth.

The latrines is recommended to be removed. The pheromones will attract other animals inside the attic. Did your house guest leave. If you see signs of raccoons you can use ammonia to deter them.

Raccoons are excellent mothers and will move their babies to a new den site if given the chance but evicting a mother raccoon always runs the risk of her abandoning or getting separated from her babies. Be careful you don t want to orphan the baby raccoons. Raccoons in the attic. Raccoons may not be in your yard looking for food.

They may be looking for shelter. Raccoons need a safe warm and dry place to raise the new pups and your attic makes a perfect habitat. Piles of fecal matter which will build spores become absorbed into broken ducts and enter your living space will cause an illness. The young are helpless in a nesting area of the attic and can t be trapped.

A raccoon living in an attic from january to september should always be assumed to be a mother with babies. Raccoons in the attic can cause thousands of dollars in damage from soiled insulation to ripped up ductwork. They must be removed by hand you or the wildlife technician you hire must go into the attic and remove the babies by hand.