Once raccoons get into an attic they choose areas for eating giving birth.
Do raccoons live in hot attics.
Attics are also often close to food sources such as trash cans and pet food.
Now imagine sleeping in an attic through the heat of the day.
Females seek out enclosed areas to raise their babies.
Why do raccoons live in attics.
Raccoons especially mothers choose to live in attics because they are warm and dry and offer protection from predators and the weather.
It s also raccoon mating season.
Springtime isn t only the season of blooming flowers and warmer weather.
Your first option is to do nothing at all.
With uninhabited land growing sparser and man encroaching upon the living quarters of wild animals raccoons have adapted to living in more populated areas.
Their ability to find food and shelter in an ever expanding urban landscape has made them one of the most successful urban wildlife.
Raccoons can cause quite a bit of damage when they live in an attic.
With temperatures like this most every attic that we are familiar with is sweltering.
Raccoons are incredibly adaptable and intelligent creatures capable of thriving in nearly any environment.
The most common reason for a raccoon to enter an attic and choose to live there is the case of a female who needs a safe place to give birth and raise its babies.
This hesitation to accept a raccoon in the attic job is based on our experiences of raccoons in attics during periods of hot weather.
With spring come raccoons.
The mother raccoon usually gives birth shortly after moving into the attic within 1 2 weeks and then spends about 10 weeks nursing the baby raccoons.
Raccoons aren t as likely to invade your home when they re not busy making a family.
Not only do they urinate and defecate in the attic but they can bring in a host of parasites fleas ticks mites and lice and diseases raccoon roundworm leptospirosis etc.
Yesterday s high was 90 degrees.
Today it made it up 88.
What to do if a raccoon is living in the attic be patient with a mother raccoon in the attic.
A mama raccoon is very vocal during and after her gestation period and her babies make noise too.
Raccoons easily access roofs and find their way into the attic from there.
Please see my raccoon attic damage page for more photos of raccoon damage.
