Once raccoons get inside an attic every second counts. Remove the animals before they cause more damage.
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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Raccoons are adorable mascots of urban living, but they are problematic all the same. They break into attics, where they leave piles of feces and break electric cables. The damages they cause to the roof expose the attic to the elements, which gets the insulation wet and causes mold. A single raccoon invasion can leave …
Raccoon roundworm, or Baylisascaris procyonis, is an intestinal parasite whose primary hosts are raccoons. While it does not kill raccoons, it is fatal to other species, like squirrels. Roundworm eggs are spread in an infected animal’s feces, which become airborne or picked up off the ground. Once ingested, the eggs move into their host’s intestinal …
Raccoons are strange animals. They are not like animal groups that we are used to, like dogs and cats and other familial animals. Raccoons are not familiar at all. Like black and brown squirrels they tend to kill each other. They are hyper-aggressive and have a very strange mating ritual. Raccoons are not friendly animals, …
