Trapping A Raccoon In Your Attic

Many homes have poor attic access.

Trapping a raccoon in your attic.

How to get a raccoon out of your attic. A mother raccoon is very protective in caring for. While raccoons are considered as usually solitary a female raccoon will den with her kits until they re ready to be on their own in the fall maybe longer. Some of the best are.

Sounds like a raccoon in the attic do you ever wake up in the morning wishing the upstairs neighbors would be a little quieter only to remember that no one lives above you. If a raccoon is trapped in your home please call a professional to remove the animal. First of all you want to trap the raccoon living in your attic and not any other animals in the neighborhood. Most attics are unfinished.

Attempting to trap or remove the raccoon yourself may lead to injury. Let s get straight to the point here you have an animal in your attic and you think it might be a raccoon. We do not recommend the use of live traps in the attic for raccoons for many reasons. Trying to get raccoon traps in attics is often difficult.

Or if the mother raccoon stands its ground in the attic you can physically capture it with a professional snare pole. So when trapping a raccoon from your attic expect a litter of babies to be left behind or be ready to trap 3 or more raccoons. The best way to target your raccoon is to use the young pups as live bait. You have already done your research the animal sounds too large to be something small like a squirrel or an opossum and it s not flapping around therefore it can t be a bat.

When deterrents fail to work your next best solution is trapping. Here s what you ll need. Even more difficult is getting a trap with a 25 pound angry raccoon out of the attic. The most common reason for a raccoon to enter an attic and choose to live there is the case of a female who needs a safe place to give birth and raise its babies.

If you don t know what to do you have a better chance of trapping your neighbor s cat than the raccoon. Then when you enter the attic you scare the mother raccoon out with your presence make noise or chase it with a snare pole and it will run out of the attic out its hole and right into the trap.