Suburban Raccoons

Using raccoon poison to get rid of raccoons is totally the wrong way to go about it. I used to think that getting a gun and shooting them was the best way to get rid of raccoons. However, this is totally the wrong approach for a number of reasons that are actually quite practical. If you are trying to get rid of raccoons, read on for the best solution.

Now before everyone gets excited, we do not condone guns and raccoon poison because it is inhumane. It probably is inhumane. However, when they are in your attic, all you want to do is to get rid of them. You really do not care how it is done.

Raccoon Poison – Getting rid of Raccoons the Wrong Way

Recently a person in Toronto had a problem with raccoons and took a hammer to them. Killing them and disposing of their bodies. Of course, an animal rights activist heard about it. The police were forced to take the person away in handcuffs. He was just trying to get rid of these pests and remove them from his home’s attic. Now he is in jail! How frustrating!

The above story is a deterrent for not killing them, but there is a good reason to deal with them in another manner. Basically, there are many families of raccoons in every square mile inside and outside of the cities across the country. They are everywhere and if you kill them more will just move in a month or two later. When a den is vacated, another family is just going to move right in. Apparently, they can tell if a den is occupied or not by smell alone, so unless you deal with the main problem of access you are just going to have more raccoons in your home’s attic or where ever they have set up residence.

The same thing goes for using raccoon poison to get rid of raccoons. You do not want a decaying raccoon in your attic and you certainly do not want to kill any of the local pets.  Also, you might poison the adult raccoons, leaving the babies to die in the attic and smelling up your attic. Can you imagine the smell and how bad it would be? no one really wants this problem.  Even if they all get out, more will just move in like squatters shortly.

How to Get Rid of Raccoons Safely

The answer is to use heavy gauge chicken wire and seal all possible entrances. You will have to wait until the young pups are old enough to travel before you do this. At the main entrance to the den into your attic, build a one-way trap door so that the raccoons can get out but not back in. Once you are sure they are out then permanently seal this entrance as well with this same heavy gauge chicken wire. This way, no more raccoon families will ever move into your attic ever again.

There are companies that provide these types of services and will do a professional job to keep the raccoons out of your home and attic. Using raccoon poison to get rid of raccoons is only a temporary solution and will only get the animal rights activists mad at you. You may not care about the activists, but you really want a permanent solution.  Besides within a month, a new raccoon family will have moved into the now vacated den unless you take these steps of placing heavy gauge chicken wire over the opening.

Babies Must be Able to Travel

Just make sure that the babies are old enough to get out by themselves. If they are not the parents will try to get back into the den any way they can and this means literally tearing your roof apart to do so. We have pictures on this website that show just what damage a raccoon can do to your roof when they are determined. You can actually have more damage from the rain and the weather after your roof has been wrecked than from the raccoon itself. Try the one-way trap door after the babies are old enough to travel on their own and get out the door and you should have no further problems.

Comments are welcome about your experience with using raccoon poison and building one-way trap doors to keep them out.

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