Spring Into Action: Season Premiere

[Music] we just arrived at this house and there is a raccoon and babies living in the kitchen ceiling so it's a lower level roof in the back and we went in we can see where the mom is they've been hearing babies lots of chirping noises so we're going to go around back put a ladder up and see how she's getting in but from the ground we do know that it's a roof we'll just show that closer and we'll head around back and see how this job unfolds can wait and be quiet when I touch the house so that we don't scare the M she's lying on her babies right now so this vent on the left side is the one that the raccoon's getting in through from here you can even see that it has been torn there's a piece missing and it probably is just being lift up and it falls back down once the raccoon goes inside so kind of like a door [Music] so this is the roofin where the raccoon's getting in you can see that some of the plastic from the inside's torn out completely come out this is cracked and at first I thought maybe this whole vent would pop off but she didn't even pop it off the tabs she's just lifting this up and going in that way so she's really squeezing herself to get in and out but it closes and it's almost like a trap door where you don't even know that she went in other than seeing that it was torn up and she's torn a shingle off so she didn't have try too hard to get in but it just shows how easy the plastic is to break and squeeze right in so she's just going through there into the attic and she's going over to that side where she's lying with her babies right now so that's on the other side of the sky light and they're hearing it in the kitchen cuz this is the roof right above the kitchen so the raccoon's getting in through the vent on that side but when we went inside we noticed the raccoon and babies are lying about right here on the ceiling so we're going to open up this vent first we're going to make noise on the ceiling inside hopefully get the mom to move I'm going to open this really quickly and the baby should be like right here once we open it up so I'll keep making noise yeah okay bring it down that's fine I don't think she's there I think she Mo there oh there's the babies look right there so when we popped it open this was in the way move it away and there are the babies so Mom moved while we were doing all that which makes sense very cool they look pretty young they're right up against the side of that Skylight lots of insulation in here she hasn't come out cuz I can see the other vent so it looks like there's at least four might be more so we'll be able to use these Grabbers and grab each one we going to grab the first baby I actually could probably grab just my hands but use the Grabbers have the first baby coming up there's some her eyes closed watch for mom so that's number one it's okay number two coming up noisy they all want to TR let number two eyes closed really we gold still tiny it's okay they are moving a bit if you guys want to hurry a little number three coming up this one's quiet oh there we go cying a little bit see okay the next little guy number four I think we can show we can bring them down and show you after I was expecting it a little bigger oh yeah they're about a week old for number four and I did see another [Music] guy insallation here [Music] number five their eyes are closed their ears they can't hear anything no sign of mom but she is in there she would be with her babies during the day is that all them I think I'm going to double check with the camera here I'm just going to this insulation is kind of blocking was blocking my view but I'm going to move it a bit just to see see if you look you can actually see she did end up clearing the insulation she was right on the drywall went right down to the drywall with her babies which is like what they like to do they get the heat from the house and she cleared there would have been insulation flat on that drywall there so now we can try to get Mom out maybe with a baby crying over there we'll see if she can come but if not a oneway door will be put on and the babies will be left in our heated box on the roof so the mom is probably too scared to come out it's such a small space and she probably doesn't feel safe coming out so having the baby cry didn't work this time but that's okay we'll put them in our heated release box we'll put it on the roof for her near her entry hole and when she comes out later when she feels safe she'll be able to gather her babies all five of them and take them to an alternate Den site so tiny he stops crying as soon as someone's holding him oh there he goes okay all right now we're going to put the babies in the baby box and we also have a heated pad in here to keep them warm overnight so Mom has time to come and get them a loud [Music] number [Music] two number three they're so noisy once they move from their siblings that's just them calling out for Mom they don't really know what's going on there you go and last one there you go we got five baby raccoons in our baby box we're going to close the lid and we'll have to attach the extension cord which we'll do now and they'll be warm and safe waiting for Mom all right so we plugged in the heating pad here to an extension cord that's plugged into the house that we're at and now we're going to turn turn on heating pad here you want to keep it on so it turn off the stay on yep just like that and then turn up the heat just about two or three you don't want it to y That's good tuck it all the way [Music] here this is just so if it does rain the water doesn't get to the extension cord or the cords for the heating blanket close the lid last step is just to close that door y perfect so the door she'll be able to come up the hole she'll see the box and be able to push that open with either her paws or her face and get her babies and we'll set up our camera so that we can see what happens overnight [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is no just okay [Applause] [Music] pulling them up [Applause] [Music]