Raccoons are amazing and incredibly savvy animals that are very successful in nature as well as in the urban landscape. This is all due to their dexterity, agility, and intelligence. Raccoons eat all kinds of things in cities whatever they can find and will typically reflect the diet of the city itself. This is why a lot of raccoons are more obese than their counterparts who live in nature. Even though the raccoon is highly successful at foraging food, there might be times where the raccoon is unable to find a reliable food source w=for whatever reason so the question comes up for how long raccoons can survive without food or water. According to research, a raccoon can live without food and or water for about a week.
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This excludes the state of torpor in which raccoons will go in to preserve energy during the coldest months of the year. Torpor is not hibernation because there are intervals at which the raccoons wake up. They can move sluggishly and slow until the spring arrives where they are active again. Raccoons can be incredibly destructive animals that are on the constant lookout for food. They can rip through garbage bags and will go through garbage bins despite being raccoon-proof.
Raccoons have figured out that these bins can topple over and get away with the loot. Things can get much worse once raccoons find a reliable source of food and will continue to go to the same area for food. If the property has a backyard and a pond you might be surprised to find out that some fish might be missing from the pond.
Raccoons are excellent fishermen who use their dexterity to their advantage to catch fish. Their paws look eerily like ours which contributes to their success in nature and cities. They continue to be a headache for city officials who are doing everything in their power to fight the rising number of cases where a raccoon ransacked properties and ruined them. This especially happens in the winter where the number of attic break-ins dramatically increases.
Raccoons will break in the attic to overwinter. They do this by using their impeccable climbing skills to scale up roofs. Once they scale up the roofs, they will look for vulnerabilities around the roof they can exploit. This ends up being the soffit or the chimney in most cases. Once the raccoons are in the chimney, people can be disturbed by their constant rustling and noises that seem to come behind a wall.
The raccoons do much more damage in the attic. They get in the attic by breaking through the soffit and that is where all the chaos begins!
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