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Raccoon Trapping: How to Trap a Raccoon - Trapping raccoons and sending them to their real home (In the wild) will be the ecofriendly solution of raccoon prevention. There are multiple ways to trap and catch the raccoons at home. However we are mentioning here some of the legal and peaceful trapping of raccoons. If raccoons are disturbing you took your peace away keep reading.

As the raccoons are spread in large areas of major cities of USA and other European and Asian countries there are a lot of animal control systems available at affordable costs. However trapping raccoons at home can save you some hundred bucks. Raccoons are there in the city for one main and very basic thing and that is food. For trapping raccoons there are some useful baits that you can use such as watermelon, sweet-corn, honey and some fishes.

You can easily get a trap that can be used to trap raccoons in the house. All you have to do is keep the bait inside or near the trap depending upon the trap type. The baits mentioned here can be used to attract and capture the raccoons easily. Entry holes are the ideal place to set the trap. As the raccoons are smart yet powerful animal they can escape the trap with giving the trap a smack. So make sure that you are placing some small but enough weight on or around the trap.

There are generally two type of the traps available in the market to catch the raccoons which are the one door and second one is the two door trap. While most trapping scenarios it is seen that the trapped raccoon is a young pub. The reason behind this is the female raccoon finds a place to give birth to the pubs in some hidden place. And when you try to catch the raccoon the adult female mom get escaped leaving behind the young and new born babies which are comparatively low on power and experience.

However there are few major types of the traps that are available out there such as Body clamping traps which are the double spring loaded traps these traps can be settled near the holes made by raccoons. Then there are Paw Hold traps which as the name suggest grabs the paws of the raccoons with a clamp. This is somehow the pain-giving type of the trap used by professional fur animal trappers. This can give the raccoon huge pain.

Cage traps are the most common type of the traps which are used mostly in trapping most animals out there from rats to lions. This trap encloses and then traps the animal inside a completely packed steel container. Which is able to fit the more than one raccoon at a time. Using such traps is safe if they are used with proper caution. As you may trap in an animal with smaller size and the door may ram on them and can sometime kill them.

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If you have animals in your house, it's important that you hire a company that will do the job correctly. We do a complete job from start to finish, for a permanent solution to your Norfolk pest control wildlife problem. We inspect the house, remove all of the animals humanely, repair the damage, and seal the entry holes with guarantee, so that you never have crittes in your attic again. Call us any time at 757-550-4886 for complete wildlife removal in Norfolk. We look forward to hearing from you!