Raccoons are nocturnal animals that are widely known as scavengers. When you think of raccoons, you probably imagine them rifling through dumpsters. They will eat just about anything they can get their paws on.
While raccoons tend to avoid humans, sometimes they come into homes in search of food and shelter. If you have an attic, that is a prime location for sheltering baby raccoons. Unfortunately, when raccoons live in your attic, they can pose health risks, damage your property, and even increase your risk of mold or bugs.
If you are dealing with a raccoon problem, Nuisance Wildlife Rangers are here to help. We can trap and relocate raccoons away from your home, allowing them to live out their lives in the wild. Additionally, we will help you seal any entry points they made to prevent future wildlife infestations.
What are the Risks of Raccoons in the Attic?
The most common signs of raccoons in your attic include hearing scratching or scurrying noises, noticing droppings in your attic, or seeing entry points that would allow an animal to enter your attic.
While you might not want to disturb the raccoons, there are a variety of risks associated with allowing them to live in your attic, including:
Health Risks
Raccoons can carry a variety of diseases that can impact you or other pets living in your home. These diseases are spread through contact with droppings, bodily fluids, or raccoon bites.
The diseases raccoons can spread include:
- Rabies
- Roundworms
- Leptospirosis
- Giardiasis
- Salmonella
If there are raccoons living in your attic, do not approach them on your own. If there is a mother raccoon, she will protect her babies at any cost. In other words, trying to remove raccoons could result in you getting attacked and contracting a disease.
Property Damage
Raccoons will cause a variety of property damage while they are living in your attic, including:
- Structural Damage- Raccoons might tear apart drywall, rip up insulation, or cause damage to pipes in your attic.
- Roof Damage- Raccoons can chew through shingles and rip open eavestroughs, often to create entry points that allow them to come in and out of your attic easily.
- Electrical Damage- Raccoons might chew through electrical wires in your attic, which is a huge fire hazard.
Other Dangers
Raccoons often carry fleas, ticks, and parasites, which they can easily transmit to your household pets like cats or dogs. Even further, the feces and urine that raccoons leave behind in your attic can lead to mold and attract bugs like cockroaches.
How to Remove Raccoons From the Attic
If you are looking to get rid of raccoons living in your attic, there are a few steps you should take. First, you should seal off any entry points that allow them to get inside. You should also remove any food or water sources that they might be attracted to.
While there are some ways to remove raccoons yourself, it is best to call a wildlife control company. Raccoons can be aggressive, especially if they have babies. They also might attack humans when they are suffering from rabies.
Contacting a professional reduces the risk of disease and injury. At Nuisance Wildlife Rangers, we remove raccoons from attics by setting live bait traps. The bait will lure the raccoons into the traps so we can safely relocate them without any humans or raccoons being harmed in the process.
Once we have removed and relocated the raccoons, we can help you fix your attic. If there are entry points that need to be sealed or damage to electrical wires, insulation, or your roof, we have contractors we work with that get your attic back in shape. Additionally, we will safely dispose of raccoon feces and clean up any urine stains they left behind.
Calling a wildlife control professional is the easiest way to ensure raccoons are evicted from your attic in a humane and ethical manner. Because we offer cleaning services, you do not have to worry about contracting diseases when you need to get back into your attic.
Get Connected to a Raccoon Removal Service
If you are dealing with raccoons living in your attic, it’s time to get some help. Raccoons can transmit diseases, cause damage to your attic, and become aggressive if you try to approach them. Instead of trying to remove raccoons by yourself, you should contact a wildlife control company.
At Nuisance Wildlife Rangers, we are prepared to handle any size of raccoon infestation. Whether you have a small family of raccoons or a large habitation, we can trap and remove them with ease.
Nuisance Wildlife Rangers is a full-time wildlife and animal removal company that extends its services to both commercial and residential clients. We have a great team of animal trappers that will work tirelessly to ensure that your home is free of any nuisance critters. We do not use any harmful products and we will focus on the humane methods to exterminate the animals. Our trappers are experienced and will explain every stage of the wildlife removal process. We are committed to ensuring that your home is safe and fully protected from the invasion of animals.
Contact us today for more information on our raccoon removal services.
