Raccoon Mom Surprises The Experts! | How Gates Removes Raccoons From Attic

[Music] hey [Music] hey hello greates wildli control oh yes yes about the raccoons mhm yeah so we just want to know have you seen the hole right here yeah okay so are you hearing them on this level or is it up top um that level this level here yeah okay so the birs birs sounds okay that's probably the baby raccoons they you hear that she do you hear that here yeah that corner inside the house or in this part that corner um inside the house we're at a house where it's a little bit different when you go into where the raccoons are it's a tall ceiling and then um there's a wall space so we're hoping that we can get through the attic we'll show you once we're inside but we're hoping once we get in the Attic we can actually get across to the area where there's seeing them I'll point to it when we or Sor where they're hearing them I'll point to it when we get in there so you can see what I mean and they're hearing them in the wall so that's why I'm hoping I can crawl over and hopefully grab reach down the wall and grab the babies oh sorry I thought I saw something up there um once we're in there we'll see if we even can if not we will have to cut a hole in the wall because that's where the mom and babies are we'll set everything up just in case she comes out while we're doing this but right now we will grab our equipment and head inside and take that first step to see if we can see the mom and babies inside so we got our ladder let get the baby bag and the Grabbers okay [Music] put on my mask we're setting up a camera on the outside so we can know if she came out while we're in there cuz sometimes they do and you wouldn't know unless you wouldn't know for sure unless you had a camera set up and then we'll know if she's going to come back for a crying baby if she's inside or if she's outside already ready to come in the landlord approved the work okay what what are we going to do here we're start in the Attic the attic so we know from the sound that the mother recing babies is in this wall the flat wall on this side of the house the attic entry hole is way over on the other side of the house so we have to uh hopefully get from there to here to be able to access the babies we'll go see if we can do thej just that there we go oh it's right at the side of the hose we got a long way to go to get to where she is and see here we have okay very narrow passage it opens up into the other attic over there so we're hoping this will lead to where she is we'll find out soon somebody has to go between these beams and climb way over there so we got to get through this Gap how am I going to get back you will no I don't know yes you will I you holy moly that was crazy that is such a hard drop that is never done something I know that's crazy I actually don't know how I'm going to get back I got okay wait you're going to do it no that add a catch right there great back down a level it I'll go to the easier out ofat to come in now we got to climb back up I think I kind of want to kind of like do a dip you can see this is where she's coming in look that's where that entry that oh yeah and she's moved all the insulation we got to do a tricep dip right now that's why we go to the gym see how strong you are careful is this going to be it I hope so okay I'm just going to clim here so that Spencer can get up oh yeah by the way this is Spencer first introduction siblings I hear movement okay oh there's mom go mom go stay there Mom go she just ran out see if she goes that way I'll she's coming your way you see her no not yet she's above you oh yep I see her oh w real close mom go out okay wait wait wait don't scare her too much I'll back up a mom don't go that way go your normal way okay wait let's just let's just give her a second you see her yeah I think I I was kind of in her way Mom okay she can technically stay there but I just didn't want her to grab a baby so I want to make sure she got out of the way her entry hole is right there so I think the only reason she didn't drop down is cuz you were there yeah maybe so if you come up I think yeah she might have room to go down yeah but then okay okay so we're just leaving her there she might head that way yeah she's heading that way which is good doesn't have to go out okay so now that mom's out of the way which is perfect we come over here keep an eye for her but they would be you can see she's torn at this and which one was she in this one there's the babies they're a bit deep which is not ideal there they are sleeping I'm hoping we can get the Grabbers that deep or we're going to need in yellow pool yep so let me just try to see if I can get Grabbers down there if not we're going to need some more tools yeah so A lot's happened yeah no mom went to where we were before up there the old spot because she ran through she was too scared to go out and went that way like where we were before up there I can see the babies I'm trying to reach them now okay to literally go to shoulder deep with the Grabbers to reach them which is pretty deep but I think I can reach them and I just got to go like this yeah I'm at the bottom you don't push too hard the ins go down I think I'm going to take this off my head so I can see better they got one he's coming up we got you baby number one eyes are still closed mom's over there and we're so lucky to be able to have reached them otherwise we would have had to cut a hole in the the wall hi are you sleepy your tongue's sticking out a lot of them have been sticking their tongue out but it's probably cuz they just got fed and they're just so content so we're going to place baby number one inside the bag and reach for a second yeah you see we're reaching very deep oh there he moved a bit going to have to come on I'm helping you up it's a little ride I got number two baby's crying that's okay A little elevator ride all the way up you're going to be giv back to Mom it's okay another tongue everybody got a tongue a little tongue guys we still don't hear mom so she's okay over there and there's one more little guy I'll put him in the bag and we reach down for number three there's a perfect little play pen for them see how he's he's moving a bit cuz he's like where did everyone go and he can't go anywhere way this way that way or front to back they're just in this little space so let's grab him before Mom here with him think I got him yep we got you number three they all got their tongues out it's okay sweetie so three baby raccoons in that space that tongue's really it's so cute when their tongues are out like curling his tongue I think it's when they're nursing she might have been nursing recently so what we can do is take them out we have a different way to get out now so we don't have to go back that same way which was very tough and that is where mama is now so that would be a tough little space if we had to go back that way we'll place them in the bag and we'll see if we can get Mom to come out with one of them crying maybe but she was pretty scared of us and I get it we're coming into her space so three babies in the bag there's no more which we can say 100% And we will head back out [Music] so she was scared of me and she started running down the side here as I got further in and her entry hole is right down there so I thought hopefully she'd drop down but I think she saw Spencer so she didn't go down and Spencer couldn't see her I said do you see her and he goes nope and she's running right here and he was standing where you were so I had no clue how he didn't see her but she ran up this plywood here got to the very top cuz she was scared and then she looped into where we originally were that I we were hoping you did otherwise she would have been able to get in the house I can see her entry hole so maybe she'll come out oh it's crazy in in one of the more difficult locations to get but I'm glad it wasn't uh that deep to get the babies any further and I probably wouldn't have reached I was completely up to my shoulder to get them I couldn't see her because I was I was staring down this way to where she was going to go out of the house you'll see on the camera I was looking the wrong way really is like a jungle gym in here it's crazy oh I'm glad we can go out the back door to get to that but a really cool shot we're coming down yeah we're good we have the babies it's all connected we can get to the both from where they are the baby is in the back yep how many there's three three I can show you when we're upside yeah they're all in the back they are yeah wow and is the mother there yep she's up there too we saw her she ran past us so she she's still in there she's still in there yeah so what we're going to do is take the babies outside we'll see if one will cry and if it will she might hear it and come out two of them there's three one more there's three yeah my the gation period for them 63 days 63 days and then how long do they take to well they're they go out with the mother after about 3 months so they would have been in there for another two and a half months little Tong making noise and this is only a month old not less than a month no about 2 weeks old their eyes open at 21 days and their eyes are still closed so you know they're not even 3 weeks yet yeah yeah so the bird sound is that's them mhm it's like a chittering yeah yeah yeah a lot of people think it's Birds because we saw birds around here right my God actually they cute they're little people actually keep them for pets it's illegal in Canada in the United States they do okay so since this is just such a complex attic and this area is completely different from where she headed she's not really going to know where the sounds are even coming from or where they are so we're going to move on to the next step just finish closing everything and put them in the box for her and we'll set up a camera for tonight and now we will place the babies in the heated box I already had the heating pad warming up for them so that they're nice and warm and then we're going to put them on the roof where the mom's getting in and she will come out later today when she's not as scared and she has time to search the attic cuz you must wonder what she thinks when she comes back to her spot and her babies are gone she didn't really see us take her babies and she'll search everywhere for them and then eventually tonight she'll be like okay I have to go out she comes out and she'll stumble across her baby so she'll be happily surprised when she comes out and sees these little guys they'll be nice and warm in our heated box while they wait for her it's a little rainy today but that's okay because they'll stay nice and warm and nice and dry in our box we just get all three of them out here the guy's hiding in the bag so there we go all three babies they're very cute they're going to grow up to be big raccoons just like their mom we'll place them in here the heating pads nice and warm going to close the box and bring them up to the roof what you're seeing here is the mom coming out for the very first time her entry hole is actually right beside her on her right hand and it's the roof sop intersection where she was getting in so this is later in the day so she already has spent the day in the Attic probably looking around wondering where her babies are and this is her very first time out of the attic to come see if she can find her babies she is definitely smelling them in the box she's kind of just checking the Box's surroundings and seeing what's going on here and there she goes already finding the door which is amazing a lot of moms will actually spend a bit more time skeptical of the box but I think she could smell her babies so she immediately went in to go grab one of them at this point she decides that she's going to take a baby out and initially we thought she might start relocating immediately but for the next hour or so she is circling around the roof trying to get back in she realizes that she can't get back in where her entry hole was because we have our one-way door on there so she's kind of just wondering what her next step is at this point then around 6:30 here she decides that the box is a great place for her to to keep her babies so she goes back in with her baby and all three of them are cozy in the box with her a lot of people will ask if we allow mom and babies to stay in the box if she should choose to do so and we do so in this case and other cases we allow mom to live in there as long as she wants and it's really up to her when she wants to move but as you can see here we arrived cuz we do need to check on the box still even though we have the camera we just want to make sure everything's okay with the customer and check back so we did arrive back that is why mom is on the roof and here is us we've now left and Mom is just looking for us probably but she's comfortable in her box on this day this is when we had to come back the camera had died we came back we reposition the camera to get a different angle and set up a new one this is very cool to see a mom in our box because we don't often get the opportunity to see a mom's patterns behaviors what when she'll go out at night when she comes back so we got to really monitor her 24/7 pretty much with this camera which is amazing the cameras we are using our real link and we have partnered with them to provide all our technicians with cameras to humanely monitor our jobs our baby boxes anything going on with a job site we are heading to which is amazing this mom was very comfortable in our box and it was very cool to see her living here with her babies she's in there sorry Mom hello it's okay so we have returned to check on Mom and the babies and the reason I'm back is because I am going to be attached ing this rink solar panel to the camera so that the battery does not run out while we capture all the footage of mom and her babies living in our box the footage has been really cool seeing her come out and back in and just sleeping in there with her babies there she goes but she'll be back and we'll be able to see it so the first day that when we removed these babies was a week and a half ago and their eyes were closed and as I'm checking on them right now that guy's eyes they're kind of slitting open but this little baby he actually has a full eye open and his eyes are opening so they're 21 days of age it's very cool to see them get bigger I can even feel that they're bigger than when we first removed them which is really cool and this guy oh his eyes are opening too so it's really cool to see we'll keep the camera set up we don't mind letting mom live here it'll be cool to see them start to to come out onto the roof and explore and to see them grow up okay we'll close the Box so we have a box full of babies we have our re link camera set up to watch and I have Mama raccoon watching me install it all she's just curious cuz she hasn't gone anywhere she usually comes back pretty quick she goes it's okay I'm going to leave so you can have your babies so our camera will capture all footage on this day we returned to attach a solar panel to the camera and that is the cord that you're seeing there so she's a little more skeptical on this day about if she still wants to stay here you can see she's kind of in and out she's still kind of looking for us we had just left at this point so she's looking around seeing if she really is alone and here you can see that she's deciding to start potentially moving them she's moving the babies around more than other days at this point I think she finally decided okay I'm going to move my babies in a second here you'll see that she starts coming out of the box with her first baby and it was such a unique opportunity to be able to see this we really enjoyed watching this job so we don't mind that the mom stayed I think it was about 10 maybe over 10 days about 14 days that she was in there which is amazing so Mom took all three of her babies to an alternate Den site which is great they are happy and healthy with her they got to stay as long as she needed in our box and we love to be able to provide that to raccoons when they need it so there she goes the second baby and here she is coming back for the last little one