**** Info via Hope for Wildlife
It’s been a busy raccoon year for us, and Hope for Wildlife are still receiving orphans!
While raccoon births peak during May, in many necks of the woods it isn’t unusual to see babies arrive late into the year. So the raccoon in your yard may still be a mother caring for her babies.
Instead of trapping a mother raccoon, try treating the raccoons like a tenant you don’t want. Mother raccoons want a dark, quiet place for their young, so she can be encouraged to move along and to take her family with her.
Using bright lights and a radio playing a base sound will make her feel unsafe and is likely enough to get them to leave your area. She’ll find a new den site and move her babies to it.
