Baby Raccoons In Attic

No there likely aren t any ghosts in your attic.

Baby raccoons in attic.

If you see an adult raccoon going in and out of your attic it s more than probably a female raccoon that is either preparing to have a litter or nursing a litter in a nest she made there. However a raccoon might be making its nest in your home in preparation for her babies. It s not always a simple task it usually requires these 4 steps to get raccoons out of an attic. It is a very distinct sound that is mostly unique to baby raccoons.

This time a family of raccoons was nestled into a crevice in. Raccoons are large animals that move very quickly. The young are helpless in a nesting area of the attic and can t be trapped. Inspect the home and find the entry hole s which are very large and obvious.

You might see the adult female. Published on may 18 2011 humane wildlife services finds wildlife in and around a lot of people s homes in the washington dc area. You can t just trap and remove the adult you have to crawl in the attic and find the nest of young raccoons and remove them by hand. The most common reason for a raccoon to enter an attic and choose to live there is the case of a female who needs a safe place to give birth and raise its babies.

And where there are babies mamas are not far away. Therefore it s no surprise that the noise they make is very noticeable. 1 physical removal of the nest of baby raccoons 2 humane trapping or exclusion of adult raccoons 3 repairs to the entry points 4 cleanup of raccoon feces and waste. The problem is that there are almost always baby raccoons in the attic along with an adult female.

Published on aug 25 2015 dusty showers of creepy creatures pest and wildlife in tampa bay florida shows the proper way to remove a mother raccoon and babies from and attic. This is very important almost all cases of a raccoon in an attic means a female with a nest of baby raccoons. The good news is that they can then be used as live bait to catch the mother raccoon. Search the attic carefully and find and remove the litter of baby raccoons by hand and place in sack.

The majority of the time a raccoon in an attic is a female with young yes the majority of the time about 80 of cases of any raccoon in an attic there s a litter of 3 5 baby raccoon pups. There are a couple of indicators that can let you know if you have baby raccoons in your attic. Raccoon in the attic step 1.