Raccoons Are Intelligent and Dangerous-Call Raccoon Removal

As the cities are expanding their limits to forest areas and population is increasing, human beings are increasingly coming in contact with wild animals. Incidents of intrusion of wildlife like raccoons into residential houses and commercial properties are increasing. In fact, raccoon removal companies are thriving on this raccoon menace. Both residential houses and commercial properties are taking the help of these experts to remove wildlife from their premises. 

    

The Nature of Raccoons

                                           

These animals are somewhat round in shape and have bushy tails. They do look cuddly, but can be ferocious if you happen to confront them in any situation. They are as big as small dogs. Due to their size and ferocious nature, they can be quite difficult for house owners to tackle, let alone removal. In the wild, they make dens in trees or caves. But they also love to make homes in abandoned vehicles, barns and other areas inhabited or used by human beings. Raccoons are also known to be carriers of roundworms, rabies and leptospirosis. So, if there is a raccoon intrusion in your house, there is a likelihood of you contracting diseases.

Raccoon habits 

Raccoons are nocturnal animals and they sleep during the day. They are known to sleep more during the winter, but they do not hibernate. They are omnivores. So, you can expect them to eat everything including meat. They also eat apples, cherries, persimmons, acorns, berries, citrus fruits, peaches, wild grapes, plums, figs, beech nuts, watermelons, corn, walnut etc. Raccoons just love to eat fish, frogs, insects, bird eggs and rodents like squirrel, rat etc. If food is scarce, they can even be found scavenging garbage bins. You can also find them eating road kills. 

Problems for House and Commercial Property Owners

A rodent intrusion is always a problem since it may damage your furniture, your property and may also cause various diseases. But Raccoons can be a bigger threat due to their size and ferocity. It can attack you and cause harm. They usually nest in the attic and multiply there. They can damage electrical cables and set up a house fire. They may also damage water supply lines and cause a flood. They may dig up walls, attics and roofs in search of food and destroy them. They can also dig up gardens and leave your flowering plants lie in tatters. They can rip apart ducts of all type, insulation etc. The consequences of Raccoon infestation are huge. You need to call animal removal specialist in order to remove them since it is quite difficult for a house owner to do that.

How Do I Know If There Are Raccoons?

Raccoons are nocturnal animals and they can forage for food anywhere inside your house and outside it. So, you are very likely to here scratching and screeching sound at night mostly from the attic area. However, attic is not the only place where they may live or forage for food. So, you may get such sound from walls, basement, garbage bins everywhere. They also poop everywhere. So, you may come across their poop around your property. You can hear the sound mostly during the night. So as soon as you hear unusual sound from the attic, walls or other places call a raccoon removal specialist. They can find out whether it is a raccoon or some other animal.

How to Detect and Remove Raccoons                  

It is not possible for a house owner to know whether there is raccoon infestation in your house or not. If you are just getting unusual sounds, call the animal removal services. If you come across raccoons, call raccoon removal services. They have the means to detect and remove these raccoons. However, raccoons are more intelligent than many other rodents. They lay traps everywhere to trap the female raccoons. Since raccoons generally keep their babies in safe places like attic, crevices inside walls etc, you need to remove the babies by hand. Once all the babies are removed and adults are trapped you need to relocate them. Killing them is not permissible in most states.

How Can I Prevent Intrusion?

The raccoon removal people will plug all the entry points to your house including the attic and on the ground. This will make sure that raccoons don’t get an entry point to your property.