Like any other
animal on earth, raccoons are looking for a
place to call their home. For homeowners, this
can sadly mean that they will build their
residence within your attic, under your porch,
or in your shed. They are looking for a place
where they can have some peace and quiet while
also having a safe place to sleep, and these
places on your property can afford them that
very opportunity. You may not like them setting
up residence in your home, but there are many
instances where people have found that a raccoon
is doing just that.
While some are fortunate enough to be able to
live in this way, the vast majority are living
in rural or forest areas where they find shelter
in a wide variety of areas. Commonplaces for a
raccoon to build his home are in hollowed out
trees, or under logs that they locate and find
provide them shelter.
However, some raccoons will go to the extent of
actually building their own home for themselves.
Because of their sharp claws they are able to
create their own opportunity to build a home,
which may make you wonder if raccoons burrow or
dig holes?
The answer to that is most definitely yes. Most
of the dens that a raccoon will live in are ones
that they have created themselves by digging
with their sharp claws. They will burrow their
way through the dirt and can build a rather
elaborate house for themselves which affords
them protection from the elements as well as
gives them advantages in defending that den from
potential predators.
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This is one of the most frequent styles of home
that a raccoon will use. Because it affords them
the safety that they need and they can build
these in virtually any location, a raccoon will
spend the time and effort to ensure that it’s
getting a good hole dug to use as its den.
However, it should be noted that this is not the
only reason that a raccoon would dig or burrow
into the ground. Frequently people build fences
around their property that go directly along the
surface of the ground. They think that this is
helping to keep animals like raccoons out, but
these little critters are able to dig their way
underneath the fence to be able to get onto your
property.
In fact, most people that you talk to will
advise that whatever fence you put in is dug at
least a foot into the ground and buried so that
the raccoon is not able to easily gain access to
your property. They will work at the covered
fence for a time but will eventually give up
because it is simply too deep for them. This is
a lot of extra work for you, but it ensures that
you will have success in keeping them out.
Without the ability to take the raccoon would
not survive. They need that to create shelter,
to gain access to places, and even to dig for
food.
Read more:
Raccoon
Control,
how
to get rid of raccoons,
Raccoon
Feces,
How
to get raccoons out of the ceiling.
