Male Raccoon In Attic

A raccoon living in an attic from january to september should always be assumed to be a mother with babies.

Male raccoon in attic.

Search the attic carefully and find and remove the litter of baby raccoons by hand and place in sack. Thus the scent of a male raccoon from urine and glands if spread throughout the attic will often encourage the female raccoon to move out on its own and bring its babies with it. You might see the adult female. Yes most of the time about 80 of situations of any type of raccoon in an attic there s a litter of 3 5 baby raccoon pups.

Raccoon in the attic step 1. Be careful you don t want to orphan the baby raccoons. Even if the animal feels safe in its nest it will do damage to your home. 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.

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. Inspect the home and find the entry hole s which are very large and obvious. The good thing about having female raccoons in the attic is that you can use male raccoons to your advantage. For instance it might tear up your walls and even rip out your roof shingles.