Male Raccoon In Attic

The good thing about having female raccoons in the attic is that you can use male raccoons to your advantage.

Male raccoon in attic.

In fact if it is scared and determined a raccoon can cause structural damage to your attic in a matter of hours. Inspect the home and find the entry hole s which are very large and obvious. Raccoons are excellent mothers and will move their babies to a new den site if given the chance but evicting a mother raccoon always runs the risk of her abandoning or getting. A raccoon living in an attic from january to september should always be assumed to be a mother with babies.

Search the attic carefully and find and remove the litter of baby raccoons by hand and place in sack. It s not possible to gather round a few male raccoons to scare them out of the space they have inhabited but you can use male raccoon urine in the form of wildlife eviction fluid. For instance it might tear up your walls and even rip out your roof shingles. The most common reason for a raccoon to enter an attic as well as pick to live there is the case of a lady that needs a safe place to deliver and raise its infants.

Even if the animal feels safe in its nest it will do damage to your home. You might see the adult female. Be careful you don t want to orphan the baby raccoons. It may take a day or two for it to find a new place and transport all the young but this is another way to get them all out safely.