It can be difficult to get rid of rats that have moved into or around your home. Even though you may want them to leave as soon as possible, it’s important to use the right eviction methods to make sure that the process is safe and humane for both you and the raccoons. We’ll talk about what you should and shouldn’t do when you have to get rid of a raccoon.
What you need to do:
- Find the Entry Points: Before you try to get rid of the rats, you need to find the places where they are getting into your home. These could be broken roof vents, chimneys without caps, or holes in the ground under decks. To keep people from moving back in after being evicted, it’s important to find these entry points.
- Use Exclusion Devices: One-way doors, which are also known as exclusion devices, are humane tools that let raccoons leave your land but keep them from coming back. Raccoons can leave but not come back if the traps are put in the right places at known entry spots. This is a safe and successful way to get rid of someone.
- Talk to a Professional: If you’re not sure how to use exclusion devices or are worried about how raccoons will act, you should talk to a professional wildlife removal service. They know how to safely get rid of raccoons because they have done it before.
- Seal Off Entry Points After Evicting: Once the raccoons have left, use materials like welded steel mesh or hardware cloth to block off all the places they got in. This step is very important to keep raccoons and other animals from coming back.
- Get Rid of Attractants: Get rid of any food sources that raccoons might be interested in. Keep your trash locked up, don’t leave pet food outside, and pick up any fruit that has fallen in your yard. By getting rid of these things that raccoons like, you make your property less appealing to them.
- Regular Maintenance: Check your property often for damage or new ways to get in. Raccoons are less likely to come back if you keep your property in good shape and trim any trees that are close to your house.
Things you shouldn’t do:
- Don’t Use Traps: You should never use traps to catch raccoons when they are breeding or when they have young. Taking a mother raccoon away from her kids is cruel, and it can leave the babies without a mother.
- Don’t try to get rid of raccoons yourself; they can carry diseases like rabies. They might bite you or give you these diseases if you try to get rid of them yourself. Having pros get rid of raccoons is safer and more effective.
- Don’t use poisons. It’s not only terrible to use poisons on raccoons, it may also be against the law in many places. Killing raccoons with poison can be a slow and painful process. It can also hurt other animals and pets.
- Do not block entry points before evicting: Do not block entry points until you are sure that there are no rats inside. If you block these entry places while raccoons are still inside, they may act desperate and destructively as they try to get back in.
- Don’t use homemade or store-bought repellents; they usually only work temporarily and aren’t very good. Raccoons can change their ways, and some repellents may stop working after a while.
Getting rid of raccoons takes patience, kindness, and a focus on keeping them from coming back. Raccoons can leave your land without hurting anyone if you take the right steps. You can also keep them from coming back. To make sure the eviction goes smoothly and safely, it’s always a good idea to talk to a professional if you’re not sure how to do something.
At Raccoon Control Barrie, we love helping out the communities we are a part of. We are local technicians who want to make a difference in people’s lives by doing what we do and know best. Our line of work is risky, yet rewarding after seeing clear results and seeing smiles return on people’s faces. We believe in the safe and ethical treatment of all raccoons and make sure that their well-being is never compromised during or after the raccoon removal process. Raccoons are very unpredictable animals that can act very friendly or very aggressive.