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.

Baby raccoons in attic. 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. If this is the sound you hear you can bet that there are babies in that attic. 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.

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. This time a family of raccoons was nestled into a crevice in. The good news is that they can then be used as live bait to catch the mother raccoon. It s not always a simple task it usually requires these 4 steps to get raccoons out of an attic.

And where there are babies mamas are not far away. Inspect the home and find the entry hole s which are very large and obvious. It is a very distinct sound that is mostly unique to baby raccoons. There are a couple of indicators that can let you know if you have baby raccoons in your attic.

The babies make a noise that is part vibrations part screeches part warbles but the sound that gives it away is the chitters. Search the attic carefully and find and remove the litter of baby raccoons by hand and place in sack. Published on may 18 2011 humane wildlife services finds wildlife in and around a lot of people s homes in the washington dc area. Raccoon in the attic step 1.