Baby Raccoons In My Backyard

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Baby raccoons in my backyard.

If baby is healthy it s worth trying to reunite just in case mom is still coming back to check for him. Raccoons are creatures of opportunity if you re offering them a source of food or shelter in your backyard or behind your place of business they will graciously accept. Baby was left all alone or was stuck in some way and mom left him behind. Raccoon excrement often contains raccoon roundworm a parasite capable of killing humans.

The only ways to truly keep raccoons out of your garden are to trap them and release them far away or to build an electric fence around your garden. Raccoons also eat other pests such as small rodents keeping your yard free of a variety of problems. Although they will instinctively do that when they see one around. A crafty way to prevent raccoons from digging through your rubbish is by tying the ends with a bungee cord or installing a raccoon proof lock.

Mother raccoons have been known to tear through a wall to get to a baby. Raccoons prefer darker and quiet spaces with a nearby food source. These animals establish nearby latrines where they dispose of waste. However if you leave raccoons no reason to pay you a visit they will leave you and your yard your trash cans your shed your vegetable garden and your attic alone.

These pests can easily scale fences in seconds and baby raccoons can squeeze through any holes or cracks that are as small as three inches. The trees in your yard may hang over the roof of your home granting pesky raccoons access to your interior. However raccoons can scare small or medium dogs. Call a wildlife removal company to assist you with raccoon and baby raccoon removal.

Rake discarded vegetation and cut back shrubs. Dogs can be trained to chase raccoons away from your yard. Method 1 of 3. So the bigger the better in this case.

A privacy fence surrounding your yard may not be enough to keep a raccoon out if it s dead set on getting into your trash or pet food. So keeping a dog in your yard can be a natural inexpensive safe way to deter raccoons from your property. This scenario depends on how long baby has been away from mom. There are one of two reasons.

Scatter blood meal or wood ash around your plants. Raccoons in your back yard can cause cosmetic damage to property but more concerning is their ability to spread disease.