Once raccoons get inside an attic every second counts. Remove the animals before they cause more damage.
It would be a great world if there were a safe and humane way to keep raccoons off your property and your roof. Out of your attic, out from under your deck or shed but sadly there is little you can do about the outside of your home. The inside can be protected. While raccoons …
Raccoons are a dangerous species. They are very likely to catch something called raccoon roundworm in their life and the number for youth is higher than for adults which means the rates of infection are going up. This means you can assume that any raccoon feces you see on your property is a danger to …
The question is not how did the raccoon get on your property but why it was on your property in the first place. Raccoons are very dangerous animals that can harm and kill humans and other animals often without even touching them. Raccoons are designated as the vector species for rabies. That is in 90%+ …
Raccoons have a gastric system that is capable of breaking down almost anything, they can eat long-dead rotting corpses of another animal, they can eat other dead raccoons without any effect and they can eat garbage from years ago. They have a very strong acid in their stomach, much stronger than the sulfuric acid in …
Raccoons come in many different shapes and sizes from a baby that can fit in your palm to a male raccoon twice the size of your dog. A raccoon can gain an enormous amount of weight and can range generally from five pounds up to thirty-five pounds and some very well-fed raccoons can even get …
Raccoons can have a litre of between one and seven. While a high number like that is rare it’s also rare for a litre to just be one baby. Normally it’s 3-5 babies in a little. The babies come out of the womb blind and immobile similar to human babies and many of the babies …
Raccoons in captivity are an entirely different species from raccoons on the outside. In captivity, a raccoon can live for decades and become very old indeed. They can go through dozens of mating seasons and have massive families. This is not how raccoons function in the wild at all. They do not act familial to …
Mother raccoons are extremely caring. They rarely even allow their young to leave unless they are fully capable of defending and feeding themselves. This can take months and when a mother raccoon dies before the children are ready they must be taken by the humane society to a raccoon sanctuary where they will be raised …
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A raccoon is not an especially survivable creature in that it can survive for long periods without food or water, they have so much access that it’s rare for a raccoon to starve or die from a lack of hydration. Mice can go for three years without water. Like a human, they can only go …
Keeping raccoons out of your yard is a very difficult thing to do. There are some basic practices you can follow to make it less common. Raccoons are mammals that are carnivorous in the summer, fall and spring but omnivorous in the winter. They can eat essentially any biomatter from long-dead animals to root vegetables. …
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