Females will teach their young specifically the females where to find these spots sharing their knowledge through the generations.
Raccoon and babies in attic.
The good news is that they can then be used as live bait to catch the mother raccoon.
Search the attic carefully and find and remove the litter of baby raccoons by hand and place in sack.
You can t just trap and remove the adult you have to crawl in the attic and find the nest of young raccoons and remove them by hand.
The mother raccoon is living in the attic because it s a dark quiet safe place for her and her babies.
If you hear sounds like these in your attic you ll recognize these as the sounds of raccoon babies and you ll need to hire a.
You might see the adult female.
This is very important almost all cases of a raccoon in an attic means a female with a nest of baby raccoons.
Raccoon in the attic step 1.
If you have a male raccoon in your attic it s probably alone.
If you make the attic not dark not quiet and not safe using light sound and smell the raccoon can usually be convinced to leave your attic and take her babies with her.
Read about 5 signs of baby raccoons in the attic.
Most attic pest scratch and thump and as the raccoon is the largest of the animals that den in our attics you can easily distinguish their rather heavy scratching and thumping from the noises smaller animals such as squirrels or rats make.
Again if you have a raccoon in your attic it s most likely a female with babies.