Be careful you don t want to orphan the baby raccoons.
Male raccoon in attic.
The most common reason for a raccoon to enter an attic as well as pick to live there is the case of a lady that needs a safe place to deliver and raise its infants.
You might see the adult female.
For instance it might tear up your walls and even rip out your roof shingles.
In fact if it is scared and determined a raccoon can cause structural damage to your attic in a matter of hours.
Even if the animal feels safe in its nest it will do damage to your home.
Thus the scent of a male raccoon from urine and glands if spread throughout the attic will often encourage the female raccoon to move out on its own and bring its babies with it.
Raccoon in the attic step 1.
The good thing about having female raccoons in the attic is that you can use male raccoons to your advantage.
It may take a day or two for it to find a new place and transport all the young but this is another way to get them all out safely.
A raccoon living in an attic from january to september should always be assumed to be a mother with babies.
It s not possible to gather round a few male raccoons to scare them out of the space they have inhabited but you can use male raccoon urine in the form of wildlife eviction fluid.
Search the attic carefully and find and remove the litter of baby raccoons by hand and place in sack.