I Evicted The Raccoon In My Attic

All winter long I told my friends and family that I heard a large animal in the attic.  Well, here he is.  As it turned it he had ripped the louvers off the attic vent and moved himself right in.  I finally saw him one evening as he came down a downspout and then I waited to see him return.  The next day I had someone from animal control come out.  They set a live trap and caught a raccoon the very first night, but not this one.  Instead we caught one that I didn't know existed. They set another live trap and we got our guy.  I thought the raccoon episode was done, but no not yet.  As it turns out my attice had been subdivided by my hairy attic visitors and I had two males living in one section and a mama and her pups in another.  Animal control said they'd never seen that before, because normally a mama racoon will move her puppies if males are around.  The males will kill the babies, but no not in my attic it seems they were all living quite happily.  Well, I do have a lake view.  They had a tough job getting the puppies out.  Mama raccoon had dropped them in a tight spot, but the critter guy determined to get the little bandits out.... he worked until he pulled all three puppies out.

I didn't know that raccoons were part of the bear family, but they are and that is a good thing.  Our insurance covered damage caused by members of the bear family, so everything has been repaired, sanitized new insulation has been blown in and the loud sounds that went bump in the night....well, there all gone to my delight!