It was loud enough to wake them up at night with all of their movements. This usually took place around 5 in the morning after they return from an all night session of foraging for food. Raccoons are primarily nocturnal animals and look for food at night. They will come out of their dens around dusk and return prior to sunrise.
We have a problem with raccoons in the neighborhood and they have been into almost every house on the street. So when they got into his house, our neighbor had lots of advice on the best way to deal with them and keep them out of the house as well on a permanent basis. These urban raccoons climb up the brick onto the roof and then were a second roof comes down to meet the first they punch up the soffit and in they go. They seem to pass this information down from generation to generation, because they have been getting into houses on our street for years.
As soon as someone finds that they have this problem, they call the animal control people and they come out to install a one way trap door made of heavy gauge wire mesh over the opening so that they can get out of the attic but not back in. Raccoons are nocturnal, so they are usually in the attic when this trap door is installed. They come out at night and find that they cannot get back in the following morning. I guess at that point they have to scramble a bit to find some other place to stay for the day. I did read somewhere that they will have three or four dens that they move around to, so maybe they just go to one of the other dens when they cannot get into the first one.
Baby raccoons are usually born in the spring in the north, however in warmer
If you think that there are babies inside you are just going to have to wait until they are old enough or install the trap door, get the parents out and then go into the attic and get the babies out by hand. We do not recommend this ever. First of all you are going to have one angry set of parent raccoons that can be quite vicious when they want to be. Secondly, by this time your attic is going to be pretty dirty and smelly and thirdly, raccoons can carry a number of diseases that can be dangerous to humans.
You may have to arrange for a special team to come in and remove the insulation and the remnants of the raccoons living in the attic. These people will wear special protective clothing and air masks to prevent them from contacting any of these diseases.
This is by far the best way to remove raccoons from the attic and to also prevent other families of raccoons from entering your attic ever again. It is humane, the least intrusive and the least dangerous for you and your family. The cost can be around $400 to $700 depending on the home, however this is far less than the cost of replacing all of the insulation and cleaning your attic.
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