Raccoons in Garage? It happens often when someone leaves the garage door open or if the animals find a way to break into the garage. When in it can be difficult to get them out on your own as they can be quite persistent. Luckily, there are simple ways to remove a raccoon family from your property. All you need is some ammonia and you can rid your garage of the raccoons in a manner that is safe for both you and the animals. This, however, is a temporary solution, do not try to approach any animals on your own as raccoon removal in Toronto can be dangerous. The smell of ammonia is similar to that of raccoon urine, and as these creatures do not urinate in their dens because of the smell, they will soon leave and relocate to a new nest. Take a sealed container and pierce it several times to make air holes. Then simply soak some rags in ammonia, place them in the container and situate your raccoon repellent by their nest. If you are unable to locate the nest then consider spreading ammonia-soaked tennis balls throughout your garage.
Once you are sure your garage is raccoon-free, you can take some easy steps to ensure it stays that way. Check and reinforce any possible entry points that an animal could use to gain access to the storage space. Remember to include air vents and windows in your examination.
Keep the area free of food and water that may tempt raccoons or other creatures. This includes sources like garbage cans, water hoses and bird feeders. Regularly washing outdoor garbage cans will help keep all manner of pests away from your home.
Cayenne Pepper is another secret weapon and can be spread onto bird feeders to deter raccoons. While this will not harm the birds or their enjoyment of the food, raccoons do not like the taste and will not return to the feeder once they associate it with cayenne pepper. The simple fact is that if there is no readily available food around your home, animals will move on and you can reclaim your domain.
Raccoons are usually presented as friendly, furry creatures on TV and in movies, but the reality can be quite different. Raccoons are wild animals and can pose a threat to young children and pets, as well as cause damage to property. If there are raccoons in your garage, it is likely that they have a nest there.
How to get raccoons out of the garage?
On the unfortunate occasion when there are raccoons in your garage, you have several options to get them out:
- Open the garage door: Maybe you left the garage door open and the raccoon went inside looking for food, getting stuck. In this case, the raccoon will be terrified and want to get out as soon as possible. Opening the garage door and guaranteeing it a way out could therefore be the most effective idea. Be careful, because maybe a frightened raccoon could be very aggressive.
- Use smells: Even special smells can cause raccoons to flee your garage. They hate apple cider vinegar or ammonia, for example. You can use them to soak rags, put them in plastic bags and make holes so that the smell can spread throughout the garage. You can also use dirty litter instead of rags soaked in apple cider vinegar or ammonia, but in this case, perhaps, the stench could be very annoying for you too. Remember to pierce the punched plastic bags always near the raccoon’s lair.
- Hire a profession: In any case, the safest solution is only one, hire a professional. If you don’t feel confident or these methods can’t chase a raccoon out of your garage, you know who you need to call.
Finally, keep in mind that, usually, raccoons look for dark and warm places to raise their young. As a result, if you have found a raccoon that haunts your garage between January and September, there will almost certainly be little raccoons somewhere. Be careful not to hunt the mother first or only, because this could lead to two problems: raccoon babies might die in the garage somewhere; the mother could do a lot of damage by trying to get back into the garage and go back to them.
Raccoon won’t leave the garage?
What to do in case raccoons don’t want to leave your garage? They settled completely, not by chance, and the smells don’t push them out of the house, but you still don’t want to call a professional.
What to do? Simple, make this new habitat unfavourable to them:
- Human harassment: Raccoons choose garages, especially if they are mothers with litter, because they are calm, quiet and dark places. Creating a bright, noisy and disturbing environment for them, perhaps, could push them to leave. The idea is to do it near the entrance of the den. For this goal you can use bright lights, which raccoons hate; a radio with a very noisy radio station to be placed near the den, raccoons feel threatened by human voices.
- Remove food and water: Make sure raccoons can’t access food and water. Of course, this does not guarantee anything, but if the garage has no connections to the house, the raccoons will be without food and, sooner or later, they will abandon your garage. In practice, you have to remove all food reserves such as dog food, cat food, seeds, family food reserves etc. In addition to sealing and eliminating any source of water.
- Raccoons must see you: You have to make sure raccoons see you often. If a mother is there to protect her cubs, seeing you, especially suddenly, I should leave the garage within one or two days without further problems.
However, the question remains: why a raccoon may not want to leave your garage? Maybe she’s just a protective mother, but she can also be sick or stuck somewhere. He may want to defend himself against more dangerous predators. In this case, as usual, expert help is essential.
In some cases the animals will resist. When that happens call professional raccoon removal. We can remove the raccoons from your garage. Call: 647-557-7932