16/04/2022
Please, scrap the trap!!! ♥️🦝♥️
As always, I’m always willing to walk you through the process. Myself or a rehabber in your area will come help you. Please consider this before contacting pest control…and we work for FREE!!!!
Left on the ground at a park for three days…Edin and Borough are lucky to be alive.
A homeowner was hearing noises in their attic and in their walls for at least a week. One day, they looked behind the washing machine in their basement and found two baby raccoons. They hired a pest control company and somehow the decision was made to put the two baby raccoons outside on the ground at a nearby park. When the homeowner reached out to us, we immediately asked them to go get those babies. We explained that they cannot regulate their own body temperature and that they will die of hypothermia, starvation/dehydration, or be eaten by predators, whichever comes first. The homeowner walked over to the park and found one baby breathing heavily but the other was nowhere to be found. We instructed her to take that baby back home and to put it on heat and then go back and search thoroughly for the second baby. Luckily, after some time, she was able to find the second baby. It is truly a miracle that these raccoons are still alive. In fact, they’re only alive because they are around 5-6 weeks old and because they have a guardian angel. They are still very far from being able to survive on their own but if these raccoon kits were any younger they would have been dead much sooner.
Now, here’s the hard part…as much as this situation shakes us to our core, we understand and accept that these homeowners thought that they were doing the right thing. This is why it’s so important to reach out to a licensed wildlife rehabilitator if you need help evicting a mom and babies; please, skip the pest control company and .
So, how do you properly and humanely evict a raccoon and her family? First, try humane eviction methods such as a bright light pointed at the nest, a radio set to a talk channel 24/7, coyote urine, male raccoon urine, moth balls, lavender oil, etc. Use as many of these in conjunction as you can. The idea is to make the area uninviting so that mom hates her neighbors and decides to break the lease immediately.
Second, if those methods do not work or if you are skipping humane eviction methods for whatever reason (which we strongly advise against), you need to catch mom first. You should be setting traps near the babies and/or near the point of access where mom is gaining entry. If you take the babies first, you significantly decrease the chances that mom will be caught and you will therefore increase the chances of the babies becoming orphans. Please repeat this…Catch. Mom. First.
THEN, and only then, grab the babies. And perhaps the most important part….contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator who will guide you on what to do next. Mom and babies should go directly to a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. DO NOT SIMPLY DUMP THEM IN THE WOODS. They will not survive. We have a process by which mom and babies go into an outdoor release enclosure long enough for mom to become familiar with her surroundings, and then we slowly create openings for mom to come and go as she normally would out in the wild.
The best way to evict a mom and babies is through humane eviction methods. The moment humans get involved, that’s when things go awry. Pest control companies usually operate in one of two ways… They either kill mom and babies or they simply kidnap the babies, seal up the access point(s) so that mom is locked out, and then they either kill the babies or dump them on a wildlife rehabilitator who now bears the significant burden of raising them. Don’t get me wrong, our job is to help wildlife; But we prefer to focus our energy and efforts on wildlife that is truly displaced versus being kidnapped and intentionally orphaned by companies who profit from engaging in these activities.
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