Basic Facts About Opossums

Opossums are marsupial critters that prefer the dusk and evening hours rather than the brighter light of day. For this reason, you will usually spot them out just after the sun sets, or in the midst of the night when all others are asleep. Aside from being crepuscular in nature, opossums are omnivorous, meaning they eat both plants and meat. They are also nomadic, preferring to wander from habitat to habitat in search of better and more reliable food sources. If you see opossums on your property, they are likely searching for new shelter and an abundant source of food.

Opossums are Active All Year Long

Opossums do not hibernate, so you can expect them to still be active in the Fall and winter season. Although they are less active than warmer seasons of the year, they can still post nuisance animal threats to your property just the same. Opossums can do a lot of damage to lawns, gardens, and structures, plus pose infectious parasites like lice and mites. Although they are not predominant carriers of the Rabies virus, all other diseases and threats posed by opossums are reason enough to keep them away all year long.

How to Get Rid of Opossums

Opossums are opportunistic scavengers and will go to great lengths to access any food source on your property. This includes garbage, pet food, compost, and literally anything else edible. As for shelter, they tend to gravitate toward warn and secluded places, like underneath porches, in hollowed trees, amidst large bushes, or in garages and sheds.

To get rid of nuisance opossum, you must first eliminate all points of interest that attract them to your property. Secure your garbage lids, remove or secure pet and livestock feed, and seal up all accessible areas to places they might want to nest.

Also, opossums are incredible climbers, so trimming back large tree branches hanging over your roof and fence line is another effective approach to opossum abatement. This may seem like a big project, in which case you would want to hire a professional Indianapolis critter control company for opossum removal services.

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Raccoons are unlike any woodland mammal here in Indiana. There is a reason why they are one of the most common nuisance critters in the state among both residential and commercial property owners. It is important to protect your property from nuisance raccoon activity and tampering if you want to preserve the structural integrity and safety of your investment.

Furthermore, raccoons are known carriers of several transmissible diseases and undesirable contagions like lice and mites. Perhaps by learning more about typical raccoon behavior, you can more clearly recognize why raccoons are attracted to your property and how they are capable of causing so much destruction.

Continue reading to learn what raccoons like to do in order to understand how to get rid of them for good in the safest manner possible.

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Typical Raccoon Behaviors

Raccoons are very intelligent, demonstrating human-like characteristics of curiosity and problem solving. But this is not learned behavior; instead, raccoons are bred with these types of qualities, traits, and natural behaviors. Below are some principal aspects of a raccoon’s life, and what behaviors they display in each.

Fundamental Facts About Raccoons:

🦝► Raccoon Reproduction

Raccoons conceive in wintertime, usually later in the season. This way, their pups are born in the spring, when weather is warm, and the survival-rate is much higher. They hide away and hibernate in warm dens or shelters through the winter but remain active in all other seasons. Mothers generally reproduce one to six baby raccoons, on average. They are extremely protective of their offspring as well. Most raccoon attacks reported have been from instigating or scaring a mother raccoon typing to protect her young.

🦝► Raccoon Social Habits

Once raccoons are 12 months old, they are no longer attached to their mother. They flee the coup, so to say, and become entirely independent. Although independent, raccoons remain in groups, up to five or six at a time, for protection against natural predators, and perhaps even companionship (although not proven). To communicate to one another, raccoons have a language of more than 200 sounds and 12 calls.

🦝► Raccoon Activity

Raccoons are nocturnal, so they rest in the day and then hint for food at night. They eat everything from fruit and nuts to small prey, fish, lizards, birds, and more. They are particularly fond of human food, which is why they tend to raid garbage cans on occasion. Because of over-development, these mammals have lost a lot of their natural habitat and are forced into our residential and urban areas for food and shelter. And for this reason, they are often deemed a nuisance animal in these areas. But not in the wild!

🦝► Raccoon Abilities

Raccoons are not just very intelligent and exhibit curiosity and memory just as humans do, they are also quite good with their hands. Their paws are hyper-sensitive to touch, and also very agile and dexterous. They have human-like hands that allow them to grasp, clutch, hold, pry open, climb, and much more. They can undo latches, locks, doorknobs, and more if the opportunity arises.

Are you interested in animal-proofing your property to get rid of raccoons and other unwanted critters? If so, you are the right place! Contact Modern Wildlife Control at 317-847-6409 for safe and effective animal trapping and removal services for raccoons and more. We serve residential and commercial clients in Indianapolis and all throughout Central Indiana.

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