Re: How long are raccoon kits in the attic
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06/30/24 04:01 PM
06/30/24 04:01 PM
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Brian Mongeau
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Is the Sow still there? If the pups are orphaned, depending on age, they may need help getting out. If they are old enough and she is still there, an excluder can work. But, you don't want to exclude the Sow if they can't follow. She will rip the roof or vent apart to get back in. You can also catch her alive, scare the crap out of her while in the cage, let her go on site, and she will move the pups on her own (I do that when pups are young and unreachable, with about an 85% success rate). As long as she is alive you have options. I will often use a trail camera watching the entry hole to confirm she moved them.
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Re: How long are raccoon kits in the attic
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06/30/24 07:17 PM
06/30/24 07:17 PM
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She is still alive. The roof is a 10/12 or 12/12 pitch and she is using a mushroom vent at the top to come and go. I'm not making that climb. I've filled the attic area with eviction paste/fluid and set traps on the ground by the downspouts she is using. Now he has called saying there is a strong smell of feces and urine in the ceiling where they're hearing the kits running around. Can you reach the underside of that vent? I've hung bodygrippers on the underside on some of those steep roofs. But going inside an attic with sow is always a crap shoot that might turn into a rodeo. They're going to need a new vent or vent guard anyway so someone has to get up there. Can you subcontract a roofer who does have the equipment?
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Re: How long are raccoon kits in the attic
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06/30/24 08:41 PM
06/30/24 08:41 PM
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She is still alive. The roof is a 10/12 or 12/12 pitch and she is using a mushroom vent at the top to come and go. I'm not making that climb. I've filled the attic area with eviction paste/fluid and set traps on the ground by the downspouts she is using. Now he has called saying there is a strong smell of feces and urine in the ceiling where they're hearing the kits running around. Can you reach the underside of that vent? I've hung bodygrippers on the underside on some of those steep roofs. But going inside an attic with sow is always a crap shoot that might turn into a rodeo. They're going to need a new vent or vent guard anyway so someone has to get up there. Can you subcontract a roofer who does have the equipment? I have a young adc guy that will do the repairs. He stays busy like all of us do.
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Re: How long are raccoon kits in the attic
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07/01/24 05:52 AM
07/01/24 05:52 AM
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kinley31
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I don't have the tools to get up there safely. I agree I may not catch the right animal, but it is a last resort. He has contacted two other ADC operators and they've said to wait until they leave. He (and his wife) are not happy with that answer. It may be the only answer right now. The other two operators told them to wait until they leave because they don't want to get up there either. There isn't any job, animal, or customer worth risking your life for. We're all in this to remove animals and solve problems, but at the end of the day we all want to get home safely and have dinner with the family. It's like I've said, I'm not scared of heights, I'm scared of falling. Brian Mongeau is exactly right, you don't want to target all the coon, you want to target "thee" coon. If they want the job done right (and for your safety) ask them to rent a boom lift. For the amount of money they're going to have in the job, the cost to rent one is pencil dust.
Last edited by kinley31; 07/01/24 06:02 AM.
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