Suburban Raccoons

If you have just learned that you have raccoons in your attic, you should know that there is a right way and a wrong way to perform raccoon removal from your attic. Most people are so mad that they want to shoot them or poison them on the spot. The problem with that approach is that there are a lot of issues associated with killing them in your attic. As well if the animal rights activists find out they will come after you as well. If you do nothing they are going to wreck your attic. They will destroy the insulation as well as leave raccoon scat all over the place. Can you imagine all of that raccoon poop in your attic!

How to – Raccoon Removal from Your Attic

Raccoon removal from your attic is actually pretty easy if done the right way. First you must decide if there are babies in the attic. If there are, you pretty much have to wait until they are mobile. They must be able to travel on their own with the adults. Once they are travel-ready, the recommended approach is to install a one way trap door across the opening into your attic. Using this approach, the raccoons can get out and not back in. If the babies are trapped inside your attic, the adults will literally rip your roof apart trying to rescue their babies. Raccoons are very protective of their young and both adults will work together to raise them.

This is by far the best way to deal with raccoons in your attic. Some of the reasons are:

• No dead raccoons smelling up your attic
• A humane approach to dealing with the problem
• Blocking the entrance before the babies are out could mean serious damage to your roof by the adults
• Local bylaws prevent you from taking the trapped raccoons very far away
• Another raccoon family will just move in after the old family has been taken away unless you block the entrance.

We tried all of the usual stuff. Loud music, ammonia, bright lights, trapping, etc and none of that worked. Don’t waste your time or your money. do it the right way the first time and save yourself a lot of frustration.  None of the stuff people write about on the network except installing a one trap door. But even if you use this approach, it must be done correctly or the raccoons will do a lot of damage to your roof trying to rescue their babies if they have them in your attic.

Cleaning Up your Attic after Raccoon Removal

Hire experts, do not do this yourself. You need to avoid breathing in the dust particles into your lungs. These dust particles in the attic contain a variety of diseases and can cause you serious illness if you do not take the proper precautions.  Experts will clean up everything, remove the insulation and dispose of it properly. Next, you can install new insulation and bring it up to a standard that keeps your home warm during cold winter months. You also must ensure that the soffits are installed properly to ensure that there is sufficient air circulation into your attic.

We have a number of posts that talk about this issue in more detail as well as installing the one way trap door. Check these out before you waste your time and money trying to trap them or getting rid of them using other methods. They just do not work!

We would like to hear about your experience with raccoon removal. Any experience will help our readers deal with this frustrating issue. We will approve good comments with links as well back to your own site.

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