If I Have Raccoons in the Attic, Will There Be Babies?

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During the winter, any raccoon that you see in your yard or hanging around your property could be either male or female. Both of them are known to look inside human habitats for warmth, food, and shelter when the weather is cold and food is hard to come by. In fact, during the winter, it is not unheard of for both males and females to come together in the same sheltered spots, sharing den sites. This would rarely happen during the warmer parts of the year; raccoon males would prey and fest on raccoon kits because they are weak and defenceless. They also provide a tasty and very easy to get hold of snack.



During the spring and summer, the chances of you having a male raccoon in your attic are reduced. Males are usually off fighting each other over territory rights and looking for females to mate. Females, on the other hand, will come together to form maternity den sites, as such, where they will give birth and then take care of their young.

If you keep your eyes on your new raccoon friend, its activity will soon start to give the game away. When the sun first goes down, the female will leave the safety of your attic to find food for her kits, or to feast herself so that she can provide her young with milk.

If you continue to monitor the situation, you may also find that the raccoon mother starts to carry her babies out of the den after a few weeks. This could be to move them to another den spot; something raccoon females regularly do with their kits, or to teach them all about the outside world.

If you find one raccoon in the attic, or suspect that you might have one living up there, we urge you to check the situation out for yourself or hire in the professionals. As is the case for a whole host of other wild critters, there is very rarely just one wild animal on its own. You will more often than not find that the one raccoon you come across is a female, and if it's in spring or summer, there is no doubt that the mother will have babies hiding away somewhere close.

For more information, you may want to click on one of these guides that I wrote:
How much does raccoon removal cost? - get the lowdown on prices.
How to get rid of raccoons - my main raccoon removal info guide.
Example raccoon trapping photographs - get do-it-yourself ideas.
Raccoon job blog - learn from great examples of raccoon jobs I've done.
Raccoons in the attic - what to do to solve the problem.