Suburban Raccoons

One way trap doors for getting rid of raccoons is really the only viable way to deal with these pests when they get into your home. This picture on the left is the perfect picture that shows how they typically can get into the house just under the eave and also shows the heavy gauge wire mesh with the one way trap door for removing raccoons. This door will allow the raccoons to leave, but they cannot get back in once they are out. This is exactly how they entered our home’s attic and also how we dealt with them! It really works!

This is the professional way to get rid of raccoons, it is the only practical way and it also satisfies all of the animal rights people who are against poisoning and trapping of these animals. We will explain these statements in the following paragraphs. We know that a lot of people will disagree with us, however, please read the remaining paragraphs and then reassess our position.

What You Need to Know About Raccoons

There are many families of raccoons in urban areas. They are remarkably adaptable and have learned to live in urban areas, living off the discard of their human neighbors. A family of raccoons will have one or more sets of pups every year, usually in the spring. They are extremely protective of their children and they have 2 to 4 dens in a neighborhood, moving from one vacant home to another.

As soon as one den becomes vacant another family of raccoons will be ready to move in to the den. This is the primary reason why we feel that it is really a waste of time to poison or trap raccoons. Once you remove one family of raccoons another will move in within a few months.

If you use poison, there is a chance that you could poison the family’s pets or the neighbors. You might also poison them and then they crawl back into the den inside your attic and that is where they die. You might not realize this until the bodies begin to decay and then you have a horrible problem with the smell in your home. There is just too much risk with poison and too many potential problems. Poison also does not stop other raccoons from coming around a few months later.

Use One Way Trap Door for Raccoons Only After the Pups are Old Enough to Travel

This point is extremely important. If the parents are outside and the pups are inside, you have a big problem. The parents cannot get back into the attic. They will literally try to tear apart your roof anyway they can rescue their pups. Shingles have been removed, roofs were torn up, and holes made in a roof just to get back to their pups.

Once the babies are old enough, install the one-way trap door for raccoons to go out. Once they are all out replace the trap door with a permanent wire mesh. Make sure it is securely attached to the roof and sidewalls of your home in the manner shown in the picture.

Cover any other potential areas that could be entrances to your attic with this same wire mesh. Use heavy gauge wire mesh that cannot be broken by the raccoons. Screw nail the wire mesh to the roof and the sidewall. Fill each hole made with each screw nail with waterproof caulking to protect your home from future water leaks.

This is by far the best way to deal with raccoons in your attic. It protects your home on a permanent basis, the raccoons are inconvenienced, but not hurt in any way and you avoid disposing of dead raccoons and raccoons wrecking your roof as well. No more raccoons families are going to get into your attic with this solution.

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