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Raccoon In the House - Attic Gable Vent
To get a raccoon out of the house, you need to
find out how it is getting in, trap and remove it,
and fix the hole it was using to enter the house.
Most of the time, raccoons will live in the attic,
not the living quarters of the house proper. It
usually takes a professional nuisance wildlife
control specialist to take care of this problem
correctly. Here is just one of hundreds of
examples I have of a raccoon breaking and entering
into a house.
The homeowner heard heavy noises up in the
attic - thumping, walking, scratching. I
did an inspection of the attic, and found
this big hole clawed open and chewed open
in the gable vent. The size of this hole
says, "raccoon!". No small animal, like a
rat or squirrel, could or would make a
hole this big.
The hole may not look that large, but
raccoons can squeeze through tight areas.
I set the trap right next to the hole on
the roof, and presto-magico, the raccoon
is trapped! I take the animal down off the
roof and safely relocate far away from the
capture site.
Before I do that, however, I make sure
that I seal up that entry point good and
tight. Here we see that I've bolted a
heavy steel mesh over the entry hole in
the gable vent. This repair was done
inside the attic.
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For more raccoon trapping information, go back to
the raccoon control
page.
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travel in packs?
Can raccoons open
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Can raccoons jump
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How to
identify raccoon tracks
How smart are
raccoons?
How big do raccoons
get?
Do raccoons burrow or
dig holes?
Do raccoons
hibernate?
Do raccoons eat mice
/ rats?
Do raccoons climb
fences?
What to do if you are
bitten by a raccoon
What attracts
raccoons?
How to get rid of
raccoons in the attic
Do raccoons
attack people?
What does
raccoon feces look like? Where is it found?
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Raccoon removal from house or residence - When it
comes to the raccoon, your best bet is to hire a
professional. In fact, most states will not
legally allow homeowners to trap and remove a
racoon on their own. The reason for this is the
high prevalence of rabies virus in the racoon
population. It only takes one bite to transfer the
virus, and rabies is always fatal if it progresses
past the incubation period. What a professional
will do is come into your home and assess the
situation. More likely than not, the raccoon
inside is a female, and she likely has babies
somewhere in the walls or attic space. Finding and
removing the young raccoons is very important. If
you remove the mother and forget to remove the
kits, the litter will eventually starve to death.
The odor of rotting animals will spread through
your home until you find the bodies and remove
them or let nature finish the decomposition
process. Waiting will mean putting up with the
stench for weeks or months. Once the expert has
removed the young raccoons, the mother can be
lured into a trap containing the live babies, or
she can be trapped using a baited cage trap.
Raccoon break into house - There are many factors
you have to worry about when it comes to home
invasion and break-ins, but you probably never
thought a raccoon would be the burglar. It’s not
so much that a raccoon wants to take anything from
your home; this animal wants to share it with you.
Attics are the most common places to find these
invaders. The reason for this is simple: raccoons
are used to relying on vertical surfaces for
protection. When scared, a raccoon will run up a
tree. Most of the raccoons that live inside of a
human house are females that have wandered in
looking for a safe place to have babies. Because
of this commonality, if you’re trying to get rid
of the raccoon, you need to remember that there
are probably kits hidden somewhere inside the
building. One of the easiest ways of catching a
mother raccoon is using her babies as a lure. When
she is out of the building, go into the house and
find the litter. They will be easily handled with
gloved hands. Place them in a cage trap and set
the device outside near the area where the raccoon
has been climbing the house. The babies will be
hard for the mother to resist.
What if a raccoon gets into my house, kitchen, and
bedroom? It is very possible for raccoons to get
into the house especially they have easy access.
They can also get into the house when they
desperately need a shelter and there is no other
option apart from your house. If a raccoon gets
into your house, you do at have to be scared or
panic because they will eventually leave the
house. If they are still stuck in your house, you
can contact the professionals who will come with
the necessary equipment to get rid of them. If you
urgently need to get rid of them, then you have no
choice but to do it yourself. You have to spot the
location where they are hiding before you can
commence with the removal procedure.
You can use a snare poll to drive them out of the
house and in most cases it is usually very
effective. If the raccoons are still babies then
the snare poll will not be very effective. The
best thing to do is to gently remove them from
where they are hiding and take them to their
mother. Killing the raccoons will not help solving
the problem because for starters it is very
illegal to kill any wildlife. For the baby
raccoons, you can use a bucket to remove them from
the house because they are very harmless.
You can also use traps to remove them from the
kitchen or the bathroom but the most appropriate
thing to do is to place the traps at the entry
points into the house. You should never put traps
in the open because they are likely to be a threat
to your pets. The raccoons will always crawl into
the traps without knowing if they are at the entry
points and you will be able to do whatever is
necessary to ensure that they don’t return in
your house. If you are far from the wild, you can
surrender to the wildlife control units and they
will take them to their respective habitat.
If the raccoons have just crawled into the house
and you can easily spot them, the easiest thing to
do is to open all the windows and doors and give
them time to get out of the house. When they spot
the open windows, they will realize that they are
in a wrong place and they will willingly leave the
house.
You should never fight with the raccoons when
trying to get them out of the house because this
will only worsen the situation. Fighting them will
scare them and they are likely to hide deeper into
the house where it will a bit difficult to get rid
of them.
I operate a professional wildlife removal and pest
animal control business in Orlando Florida. I deal
with wild critters and control them via trapping,
exclusion, and prevention techniques. If you have
raccoons in the attic
and need to know how to how
to get rid of raccoons, give me a call any
time and I can professionally take care of your
Orlando raccoon problem.
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