Suburban Raccoons

If raccoons are on your roof or worse in your attic, you need to do several things. This is in addition to preventing raccoons from climbing brick walls. First, block the entrance to your attic with heavy gauge chicken wire. If they are inside you also need to add a one-way trap door to let them out and not back in. You do not want them to die inside your attic or tearing it apart trying to get out.

Preventing Raccoons from Climbing Brick Walls

Next, you want to focus on preventing them from climbing the brick walls and getting on your roof. If there are overhanging tree branches, trim your trees. They can easily climb brick walls too. Install wire guards that will act as a barrier if they are climbing the wall. This could also stop squirrels as long as the trees are not too close.

Remove all potential food sources around your property. This includes garbage bins, pet food, and even grubs in the lawn. Anything they can eat should be removed. You want to make your place unfriendly to raccoons! If you have skunks in the area, removing the food sources will also help deal with them.

Never handle raccoon poop by hand. Use plastic gloves, avoid breathing dust in the attic where there is poop from any animal including raccoons. Humans can easily become infected by microscopic worms that attack the eyes and the brain.

If there are young raccoons in the attic that are not old enough to travel on their own, you have two alternatives. Wait until they are old enough to travel on their own and get out the one-way trap door. Or you can install the one-way trap door and them go into the attic and remove the babies. Make sure the parents are not in the attic. They will attack to defend their young.

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