Tiny Raccoon Tenants | Wildlife Control Arrives at Raccoon Family's Home

Hello, nice to see you. Here you go. Thank you so much. You're welcome. So I'm going to come out. There's a window well right here. The fellow who cuts my grass said, oh, we just saw something jump out. This was last week. Enormous. I see her. She's deep down there, but I see her. There's mom, and the customer's been hearing crying, so there are babies down there. That is a far way down. It's interesting, because it's not a typical... This is the window well, but then this is where all the pipes and everything go... Oh, there. There's a baby. You hear them? I smell mothballs. Two babies. Oh, yeah, they're big. It's okay, mom. So we'd have to get her out, and then hopefully be able to get the babies. It's pretty far to somehow get them. So the mother's looking up at us, and we've seen at least one baby. It really stinks of mothballs here. We've had customers over the years put mothballs in attics and chimneys and things like that. It is now known that mothballs are carcinogenic, so avoid putting them in any environment where you're going to breathe the fumes, because it's not good. But they're down there. They're going to stay down there, unfortunately. I see one baby suckling on her, and she's looking up. So we've got to figure something out here. I wonder if this grate is cemented and doesn't move. So it's okay if she runs off. We won't mind if that happens. The babies we'll put in a heated release box, and then the mom comes back for them later. And where do you put the babies? In a box. So we would leave them here in a heated box if they have to, otherwise she would go crazy looking for them. Okay, we're just going to drop a light down and see how she reacts to the light and see if we can get her out. That's the goal before going after the babies. Here comes mom. She's not liking it. She's sniffing it. Oh, she went in. She went in. We've got to get babies fast. I'm going to get a head count. I've got two. Come on, let's go. Give me this thing. Quick. She went into a void that I can't see. And if a baby goes in there, we're done. We've got three babies in there. You see? Yeah. Oh yeah, she wants to come out, I think. I'd leave her there. Let's do this. Because we can. Here comes a baby. Okay, Cassandra, I'm going to give you the end of the baby. Okay. I've got a baby eye just slitting open. Okay, let's keep going. I don't have the cord. I need the cord. I'm worried about the other guy going. Here we go. I've got this guy. Nice little collar. We're not hurting him. Just put the collar around him. Like you would your dog. She's coming towards the other baby. Is she? Okay. I don't know what she's doing. Ready? Yep. Okay. Okay, don't get her excited until I get that last baby. She's coming halfway up. She's almost up. Is she? I thought she was the baby. I know. Okay, let me get this guy. Get him quick and then we're out of here. We can let her do her thing. Okay, mama. She sees the baby. She watches the baby. Come on. Very carefully. I just want a final check, number check. Ready? Look. I'm really saying. Okay. So I think mom will come up. Okay, let me just make sure we got them all. Yep. That's everybody. Let's get a baby to cry. Spencer, you go up over by the air conditioner there and stay perfectly still. Is she coming? I can see movement. Okay, give her that baby. Yeah. Mom, here. Okay. Mom, take your baby. Don't leave her. Take your baby. We're just going to give her space. Nope. Not coming this way. Sorry. She's a big one, eh? Pull her. Okay. So that's good. How long? They're about two weeks. Do you want to see them closer? No. Are you sure? Okay. You don't want to take a picture for? Yeah. I don't mind. Okay. They can't. Their eyes are closed. Grandkids will. Yeah. They'd love it. Okay. So everything went just amazing. Um, a very, very maternal mother, even though we spoke to her a couple of times and she headed back into what she would have considered a safe zone, um, by having the baby on the end of the snare pole. And we only had the baby underneath the, underneath the elbow or the underneath its armpits. So it wasn't hurting. It was just a harness for it. And we were able to get it close enough to the mother where it felt that it really desperately wanted it back. So it took three times, three times the charm to get her to come and follow the baby. And as you saw, she picked it up and has gone away. I just want to do a final check in here. Now that she's out of the picture, we've gotten three babies that we know were in there. We'll just do one more look, um, just spinning the light around. It looks good. It looks empty. Because we always make sure that maybe one baby had crawled away, um, before we'd even gotten here. So we'll just put the light down in a different spot. Just check all four corners. Bottom there, we can see that corner. Spin it around. Yeah, it looks good. So we've evacuated this window well. And now our job is to screen this section, which is not going to be easy. But, uh, we'll get screen over it so that she can't get back in. And we'll leave the babies set up in a box right in the window well here, be safe for them. And, uh, she'll come back, no doubt. She's a very maternal mother. She'll come back and get her babies and take them to the alternate den site. Raccoons always have more than one place to put their babies, somewhere else in the neighborhood. They keep that at the ready in case something like this was to happen. More often it could be a predator. It could be a fox or a coyote. But they also see us as predators and that just gives her a safe place to go to in the event that she has to move in a hurry. Okay, so we'll get this screened and keep her out. She's like butter. So mom took one baby, which is perfect. We always want that to happen because we know she's going to start the relocation process quick. We have two other little babies here and the third one's with mom. He's just crying out for mom. He doesn't know what's happening. This little guy, his eye's just about to open, so that means they're almost 21 days because it's starting to slit open there. This guy doesn't have his eyes open yet, but they're both the same age and their eyes will be open very soon. So we'll place them in our heated box. It will be left over where she was getting in on that window well so that when she comes back later, she'll try to get back in like she usually does and then she'll come across her babies, open this door, and then go in and get them. So we're going to plug this in with a heating pad over there, over the extension cord, and then we will leave them for mom. So let's just bring it over and we will attach that cord. We're going to place it down in the window well here. Turn it this way. Okay. They're not both over here. No. Okay. So this is going to be snug in here. We'll attach the extension cord, turn it on for them. It's pretty warm today, but overnight it still gets a little cool, so that's why we keep the heating pad for them when they're cozy. They'll wait for mom. We'll close the box, and then we just close this door a little bit and mom will come back and grab her babies and take them off, and we'll be back tomorrow.