Raccoons are a dangerous and divisive species they are aggressive both to humans and other animals but are also aggressive towards each other. The common raccoon can live for up to seven years but they often die by three as the world is a dangerous place for them. In captivity, raccoons have been known to live for up to twenty years but this is in a perfect environment with no stress or danger. The raccoon has a digestive tract that is riddled with a parasite called raccoon roundworm. While the parasite does not affect the raccoon in any way for any other mammal the parasites are deadly and entirely incurable. Getting infected requires only one microscopic particle of feces to enter your mouth or eyes and your will be infected. For this reason, if you have raccoon feces on your property you should call a professional disinfection company before a child or animal gets sick. The result is massive bodily damage as the worms burrow themselves into every organ into the body from the skin to the eyes. Blindness and a comma followed by brain death. This is one of the most terrible parasites in the world and is at our front doors, do not try to clean it yourself, get a professional.
Raccoons are aggressive. They are not familial though mothers are to their children. The situation goes as such. A raccoon female in heat will tempt a male raccoon into her den. They will mate with him and then violently chase him out by biting and scratching him on the face and body. This is because the raccoon males of the species hunt the young of other fathers to increase the survivability of their young. This is a common practice in the animal kingdom as is catabolism. Dealing with a raccoon that is pregnant is very dangerous. Due to the severe danger, her pups are in raccoon females who are pregnant or who recently gave birth are hyper-aggressive to anything that comes in their path. Attempting to lead a raccoon out of your attic or chase it out with light and noise will fail, what is outside is worse than anything you can throw at them. If you have raccoons in your attic or under your shed or deck during the baby season then you will want to get them out as soon as possible. Failing to do so could result in full attic remediation to deal with the feces and dead animals the raccoon will drag into your attic as well as urine and the possibility of a roof leak in the winter.