Dealing with urban animals is an inconvenience that many home owners in the northern Us and southern Canada face. Animals such as raccoons and squirrels often find their way in homes to get away from the elements and as a follow cause damage and disturbances.
Raccoons ordinarily opt to take shelter in the attic generally because all their requirements are ready in the attic. They find shelter as well as protection from their predators. They find their food sources in garbage cans or pet food tins. Since Raccoons are pests and cause much disturbance and noise, it is needful to get rid of them quickly.
Removing raccoons is not an easy task. It is not advised and it is not legal to use poisons or any other extraction technique that can harm the animals. Such extraction tactics should be avoided at all costs as they harm animals and they are not effective. For instance, if the raccoon mom is killed the babies will remain helpless in the attic. It is best to make the attempt to take off the raccoons humanely.
Never take off them by your hand as they might bite you in procedure of self defense. Given that many raccoons carry the rabies virus and many more parasites even a small bite can cause serious health problems. If you happen to find a raccoon in your attic, you may follow the following steps to take off them and prevent them from coming again
1) extraction of baby raccoons if any
2) Setting a trap in a humane way for the adult raccoons
3) Sealing all the entry points
4) Cleaning up your attic
Usually the raccoons that take shelter in the attic are female with her pups. Female raccoons love to raise their young ones in a warm safe place. Removing the female raccoons will cause more damage as the young ones left back would make much noise of hunger.
They might die, decompose and cause heavy odour. So by flooding a light into the attic or producing loud noise, like from a radio, will cause disturbance to the raccoons.The mom raccoon will soon find a safer place elsewhere to raise her pups.
Some times raccoon repellents.especially naphthalene or moth balls are used. There are even a predator urine which causes a bad odour is also used. But these are not too efficient as the mom raccoon might select to bear the odour in order to raise her pups in a safe place.
If you find a raccoon in your attic it is highly recommended to call a expert trapper.
The Raccoon extraction Process - Removing Raccoons From Your Home