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Customer Raccoon Email: Hi David, We love your great raccoon site! I'm really pushing hard to get our web site updated and more information like yours added to it before Spring. In our state we're not supposed to take in
nuisance animals and they considered raccoons trapped in attics as nuisance animals. It's a big drain on our already tiny resources. From start to finish we estimated that it costs $ 250 per baby racccoon to raise them. This includes
formula, produce, fish, crawdads, rodents and labor. That's probably pretty conservative too. Our group is supported entirely by donations and since we don't have a way to receive funding from other sources other than that it gets a
little dicey sometimes. One of my biggest goals is to educate, educate, educate. During baby season I cringe when people tell me they have a litter or baby raccoons because I know that there are better ways to deal with them than just
scooping them up and handing them over. Many of the people that do that to us are "repeat offenders" ~ too lazy to repair their homes so it just becomes a habit for them to bring them in. I appreciate your offer to donate to our group ~
we do have a paypal account. Thank you for providing an awesome site that people can go to get more detailed information. Diane
My Answer: Wow, I didn't realize that it cost rehabbers so much to raise a baby raccoon to adulthood.
If you need wildlife control services in your hometown, click for the National Directory of Wildlife Trappers that I've carefully compiled in every US city.
The raccoon (Procyon lotor), is a common urban animal, and native to North America. Raccoons are easy to recognize, with a black mask and ringed tail, as seen in the above photo.
Raccoons tend to weigh between 10-20 pounds as adults, and live an average of 5 years. They are mostly nocturnal, and are omnivores, and will often eat pet food or garbage. They have
become very acclimated to living in cities and urban areas. They are very strong, excellent climbers, very intelligent, and they are very skilled with their hands, which causes them to
commonly break into homes and attics, where they cause considerable damage, and they also destroy other property, and thus raccoons
are considered pest animals by many people, which is why I remove them. If you want to learn more, please read my How To Get Rid of Raccoons page.
AAAnimal Control is a privately owned wildlife removal and pest control business, located in Orlando Florida. I deal strictly with wild animals. I am not an extermination company, but a critter removal
and control specialist. The above photos are some of the many that I've taken in the field over my years of work. Please email me if
you have any questions about the above photographs, or any questions about
wildlife problems or raccoon control issues.
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