Found Raccoon Babies in Your GTA Home? Here Is What to Do

You opened your attic door and found baby raccoons. Your first instinct might be to scoop them up and take them outside. Stop. Baby raccoon removal is not simple, and doing it wrong can create serious health hazards and legal problems.

Why You Should Never Handle This Yourself

Baby raccoons cannot regulate their own body temperature for the first eight to ten weeks. If you remove them from the nest, they will die from hypothermia within hours. They need their mother, and separating them causes a slow, painful death.

Raccoon roundworm is the real danger. Baylisascaris procyonis eggs are invisible to the naked eye, survive in the environment for years, and cause fatal neurological disease in humans. Washing your hands is not enough to protect your family.

How Professionals Handle Baby Raccoons

Step 1: Confirm babies are present. The operator listens for baby sounds and uses a scope to see into the nest area without entering the living space.

Step 2: Remove the mother first. A one-way door is installed over the entry point. The mother leaves to forage and cannot return. She will circle back looking for her young, which signals she has left.

Step 3: Remove the babies by hand. Once the operator confirms the mother is gone, they manually extract the babies wearing protective gear. No babies are left behind.

Step 4: Seal the entry point only after confirmed empty. Sealing too early traps the mother outside, and she will tear a new hole to get back in.

Step 5: Cleanup and restoration. All nesting material is removed. The area is sanitized. Insulation replaced if soiled. This is not optional.

The Dead Baby Problem

If babies die in your attic, you will know within three to five days. The smell is overwhelming. Decomposing raccoon babies cause some of the worst odors in wildlife removal. The cleanup requires full sanitization and often insulation replacement.

Get free quotes from licensed raccoon removal operators who are trained to handle baby raccoons safely and legally.