Suburban Raccoons

Raccoon Removal when they are in your attic or perhaps inside your cottage or some other building can be pretty daunting for a lot of people. They might have climbed the brick wall to get to the eaves, then pushed the soffit up so they can crawl inside your attic to get warm in the wintertime and to have their babies in a safe warm dark place. They might be happy and content, but the homeowner sure is not.

Raccoon removal and prevention is best left to the professionals. If you have raccoons in your neighborhood, now is the time to take the steps necessary to keep them out before they gain entrance and do a lot of damage. Install heavy gauge wire mesh across all potential openings. Screw nail it into the roof and the eaves and use silicone over the screws to prevent any water leaks around the screw nails.

Raccoon Removal When They are in Your Attic

If they are already inside your attic, you have a bigger problem. Deal with it as soon as you know they are in there and before they have babies. Once they have babies you are just going to have to wait until the young are old enough to travel and get around by themselves. Some consumers will try trapping the parents with a humane trap and they take them several miles away to let them out. I do not know about you, but I do not want to get bitten or scratched by an angry snarling adult raccoon. As well if they do have babies, they are going to die in your attic, and now you have a mess with a smell as well which is not pleasant as well. Besides, it is not very humane.

Wait until they are old enough

Wait till they are old enough and then install a one-way trap door so that they all can get out by themselves and not back into your attic. Once they are all out, remove the trap door and install a permanent wire cover over the entrance so that no raccoons can ever enter your attic again.

You will see their tracks in the snow in the wintertime when they have come calling hoping to get inside. But the wire mesh will stop them cold and you will have no more problems with raccoons unless they are getting into your garbage at night.

Raccoon Removal – Hire a Professional

Some consumers who are handymen may install this wire mesh themselves. If you are handy and have no problem getting up onto a roof then by all means do the work and save yourself some money. On the other hand, if you do not have the tools or are uneasy about getting up on the roof, you are better off hiring someone who has the equipment to keep them safe and who will do the installation in a professional manner protecting your roof from water leaks as well.

If any company plans to try to trap the raccoons, find another company. They are just wasting your time, their time, and your money. Unless you stop the raccoons from entering the attic, which they consider home, and have established a den, they or other families will just keep coming back again and again.

Installation

Installing the wire mesh is a great long-term solution that meets all humane issues and city bylaw issues as well. Some cities and towns have bylaws that prevent the transportation of live-trapped animals more than a mile from where they were trapped. If you let them out of the trap that closes to your home they will be back within days. They will move right back into your place. If you poison them, many people do not consider it to be humane and you take the chance of poisoning family pets, other animals, and your neighbor’s pets.

Definitely not a good situation to get into and one to avoid. If you are in an urban area or in an area with homes or cottages nearby, shooting them is also not an option. Once you have thought about these options, most people come to the conclusion that keeping them out on a permanent basis is by far the best approach.

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