In the post, the original poster wrote, “This weekend we had some baby raccoons find their way into our house! They are being relocated… I only handled them as they were already inside and needed to be contained.”<\/p>\n
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Follow-up updates filled in the rest: the raccoon family was in the walls, and only the three babies actually made it into the house.<\/p>\n
A wildlife rehabilitation team used pheromones so the mother would relocate the kits herself.<\/p>\n
“The momma has now moved the babies on her own,” OP later updated<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why does it matter?<\/p>\n Baby raccoons may seem harmless, but separating them from their mother or handling them too much can create risks for both people and animals. In this case, bringing in a rehabber made it possible to keep the babies contained while still giving the mother a chance to reclaim them.<\/p>\n It also points to a larger, partly human-made issue. As development reduces natural habitat and homes offer warm, sheltered spaces such as attics and wall cavities, raccoons and other wildlife are more likely to den in buildings.<\/p>\n That means more surprise encounters for homeowners and more stress for animals simply looking for a safe place to raise their young.<\/p>\n What are people saying?<\/p>\n The original poster emphasized that this was a rescue situation, not an attempt to keep the animals nearby.<\/p>\n One commenter wrote<\/a>, “Thank you for saving them!”<\/p>\n “Relocating raccoon kits apart without their mother is a death sentence to them,” one concerned user commented<\/a>. OP responded<\/a>, “I should have been more clear, they are being relocated with their mom, they are using a pheromone to drive her out and her and all her babies will be relocated together!”<\/p>\n “Baby raccoons are so darn cute,” another added<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get TCD’s free newsletters<\/a> for easy tips, smart advice, and a chance to earn $5,000 toward home upgrades. To see more stories like this one, change your Google preferences here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few unexpected houseguests are as photogenic as baby raccoons. A Reddit post about three kits winding up inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[58340,57459,308055,79,201,308056],"class_list":["post-714652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-baby-raccoons","tag-photo-credit","tag-rehabber","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}