Male Raccoon In Attic

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Male raccoon in attic.

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. 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. In fact if it is scared and determined a raccoon can cause structural damage to your attic in a matter of hours. You might see the adult female.

A raccoon living in an attic from january to september should always be assumed to be a mother with babies. Be careful you don t want to orphan the baby raccoons. 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. The good thing about having female raccoons in the attic is that you can use male raccoons to your advantage.

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. 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. 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. For instance it might tear up your walls and even rip out your roof shingles.