Baby Raccoons In My Backyard

Drawbacks while raccoons offer some benefits to the yard they pose a greater threat to the.

Baby raccoons in my backyard. However if you leave raccoons no reason to pay you a visit they will leave you and your yard your trash cans your shed your vegetable garden and your attic alone. Although they will instinctively do that when they see one around. A crafty way to prevent raccoons from digging through your rubbish is by tying the ends with a bungee cord or installing a raccoon proof lock. Scatter blood meal or wood ash around your plants.

Method 1 of 3. However raccoons can scare small or medium dogs. Rake discarded vegetation and cut back shrubs. Raccoons in your back yard can cause cosmetic damage to property but more concerning is their ability to spread disease.

Trying natural repellents 1. Raccoon excrement often contains raccoon roundworm a parasite capable of killing humans. Raccoons prefer darker and quiet spaces with a nearby food source. To keep them from coming in you can install outdoor lights play music and ensure.

Mother raccoons have been known to tear through a wall to get to a baby. So the bigger the better in this case. These animals establish nearby latrines where they dispose of waste. Call a wildlife removal company to assist you with raccoon and baby raccoon removal.

To prevent raccoons from selecting your property for shelter make the area as unappealing to them as possible. There are one of two reasons. A privacy fence surrounding your yard may not be enough to keep a raccoon out if it s dead set on getting into your trash or pet food. So keeping a dog in your yard can be a natural inexpensive safe way to deter raccoons from your property.

Raccoons are creatures of opportunity if you re offering them a source of food or shelter in your backyard or behind your place of business they will graciously accept. These pests can easily scale fences in seconds and baby raccoons can squeeze through any holes or cracks that are as small as three inches. The only ways to truly keep raccoons out of your garden are to trap them and release them far away or to build an electric fence around your garden. Dogs can be trained to chase raccoons away from your yard.

Baby was left all alone or was stuck in some way and mom left him behind. This scenario depends on how long baby has been away from mom.