What Is the Best Way to Get Rid of Raccoons?

Raccoons are invasive critters that often sneak into residential homes looking for shelter and food. While raccoons may seem harmless, they can actually cause significant and costly damage to your property, such as broken screen doors and structural damage. Raccoons can also carry infectious diseases like rabies and parvovirus that are harmful to both humans and pets, so keep your distance if you encounter them.

If you’re looking for a way to get rid of invasive raccoons, here are a few raccoon removal tips you can try out.

4 Raccoon Removal Tips

The following tips are effective at making your property undesirable to invasive raccoons:

1. Maintain a clean property. Raccoons will go into your yard if they see fruits and nuts on the ground. Keeping your lawn clear of such debris will make it less attractive to raccoons. Cleaning out wood piles from your yard and trimming overgrown shrubbery near your home can also prevent raccoons from being drawn to your yard and accessing your roof.
   
2. Get rid of their food sources. Securing your trash is essential. Raccoons often make their meals by digging through and tipping over trash cans. Owning a trash can with a secure lid or placing a heavy object on top of the lid can help prevent raccoons from pushing the garbage can over and littering your yard with trash. Other food sources to remove include outside pet dishes and bird feeders that raccoons can access.
   
3. Fence in your property. Raccoons roam around gardens and compost piles in search of food. Unfortunately, a regular fence doesn’t stand a chance against a raccoon since they can dig underneath or climb over them. Installing an electric fence or adding an electric strand of wire to your regular fence is an effective and harmless way to protect your property from raccoons.
   
4. Seal off entry points. A common nesting spot raccoons favor are chimneys. Ensure your chimney cap is tightly secure so that no raccoons can pull it loose and get into your home. Other common entry points are garages, porches, and attics.

Effective and Safe Raccoon Removal Methods

Although some of these DIY raccoon removal methods can help prevent a raccoon infestation, hoping they leave is not the best solution. Once raccoons are inside your property, you’ll need to rely on professional services and removal techniques that will effectively remove all nuisance raccoons from your property and keep them from returning. Therefore, the best way to get rid of raccoons on your property is to contact the raccoon removal professionals at Critter Control® of Polk County.

Polk County’s Raccoon Removal Specialists

At Critter Control® of Polk County, we pride ourselves in using eco-friendly and humane methods of removal when it comes to unwanted critters in your Polk County home or business. Our licensed and trained wildlife removal experts will permanently get rid of the raccoons on your property with our trusted CritterSafe® methods.

Our raccoon removal method includes:

1. Inspection – First, our experts will thoroughly inspect your property to determine the size of the infestation and find out where the raccoons are hiding.
2. Removal – Next, we will humanely trap and carefully remove the raccoons from your home.
3. Exclusion – Then, our team will implement preventative measures around your home to keep future critters from breaking in.
4. Restoration – Finally, we will clean and repair any damages caused by the raccoons.

To schedule an inspection and receive a free estimate for our raccoon removal services, contact us today at 863-204-2815.