Baby Raccoons In Attic

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

Baby raccoons in attic. Raccoon in the attic step 1. No there likely aren t any ghosts in your attic. However a raccoon might be making its nest in your home in preparation for her babies. You might see the adult female.

It is a very distinct sound that is mostly unique to baby raccoons. This is very important almost all cases of a raccoon in an attic means a female with a nest of baby raccoons. They must be removed by hand you or the wildlife technician you hire must go into the attic and remove the babies by hand. It s not always a simple task it usually requires these 4 steps to get raccoons out of an attic.

Search the attic carefully and find and remove the litter of baby raccoons by hand and place in sack. Raccoons are large animals that move very quickly. 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. The babies make a noise that is part vibrations part screeches part warbles but the sound that gives it away is the chitters.

The young are helpless in a nesting area of the attic and can t be trapped. 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. 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.

The problem is that there are almost always baby raccoons in the attic along with an adult female. Inspect the home and find the entry hole s which are very large and obvious. And where there are babies mamas are not far away. The good news is that they can then be used as live bait to catch the mother raccoon.

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. 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. Published on may 18 2011 humane wildlife services finds wildlife in and around a lot of people s homes in the washington dc area.