Raccoons are one of the worst pests to vacation on your property. They will break into your attic and live in your shed or garage and they will even live under your deck or burrow into a dirt floor crawlspace. They are large, physically aggressive, and strong as hell. They can bend aluminum siding and …
Why You Should Call a Professional To Clean Raccoon Feces Read More »
This question is much older than you think and has been asked by many, many people. The sad truth is there is nothing that can get a raccoon off your property other than a humane capture trap and trapping a raccoon risks killing it so this is not the best way to handle the situation. …
How To Stop a Raccoon From Defecating On Your Property. Read More »
Raccoons are complicated. They do tend to defecate away from their nest with a strange level of specificity and intention, doing it on a shed roof in the middle of the yard, on a lower roof overhang, or a deck. Why they prefer solid surfaces or hidden areas is likely related to their innate curiosity. …
Raccoons are a constant issue in everything from rural communities to the downtown centers of thriving and populated metropolises. How are they capable of handling that kind of change. They are nocturnal so most of the noise is gone when they come out. That is one reason they feel so free to travel about, no …
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Baylisascaris procyonis. That is a raccoon roundworm. It is a parasite. The eggs are often referred to as spores like a fungus but they are eggs. The adult roundworm is about five to eight inches long and they are constantly shedding millions of eggs. Raccoons are not affected by this parasite and the reason for …
Raccoon roundworm is one of the most dangerous and untreatable parasites in the world. It is so dangerous that raccoon feces is considered a biohazard and its removal requires protective gear. The proper name for the parasite is Baylisascaris procyonis and it is a worm that replicates in raccoon feces. This does not harm raccoons …
Safely removing raccoon feces is a difficult and dangerous process the requires extensive protective gear and special tools and sterilizers. You can not just pour boiling water and bleach on this mess. The raccoon sound worm eggs, of which there are billions in here square inch of feces are nearly invincible to anything but boiling …
Raccoon roundworm is a terrible parasite that is fatal to humans. Symptoms include nausea, loss of motor coordination, blindness, and death. Infection occurs when roundworm eggs are ingested. Touching a contaminated surface, then touching your face could result in infection. The eggs then travel to the intestines where they hatch and migrate to the other …
The thought of getting sick with roundworm is quite unsettling. When humans ingest roundworm eggs, the eggs hatch within the host’s gut and risk migrating to the brain and eye, causing severe disease and even death. Not all raccoons have roundworm, but it is safer to assume that they do. Some studies have shown that …
The initial call to the property was for a customer who complained of raccoon feces on the roofline. Raccoons are a common issue in most of North America and tend to use properties they are not living on or eating from as a location for a latrine. They will do this often on roves of …