Trapping A Raccoon In Your Attic

We do not recommend the use of live traps in the attic for raccoons for many reasons.

Trapping a raccoon in your attic.

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. How to make a raccoon trap at home. When deterrents fail to work your next best solution is trapping. Here s what you ll need.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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. Some of the best are. Most attics are unfinished. Trying to get raccoon traps in attics is often difficult.

If you want your house to be free of outdoor critters pay attention to these signs that might mean you have a raccoon in the attic. Even more difficult is getting a trap with a 25 pound angry raccoon out of the attic. The majority of the time a raccoon in an attic is a female with young yes the majority of the time about 80 of cases of any raccoon in an attic there s a litter of 3 5 baby raccoon pups. Or if the mother raccoon stands its ground in the attic you can physically capture it with a professional snare pole.

First of all you want to trap the raccoon living in your attic and not any other animals in the neighborhood. Many homes have poor attic access. A mother raccoon is very protective in caring for. If you don t know what to do you have a better chance of trapping your neighbor s cat than the raccoon.

Let s get straight to the point here you have an animal in your attic and you think it might be a raccoon. If a raccoon is trapped in your home please call a professional to remove the animal.