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What If a Wild Animal Got Inside My House?
Wild animals always have the potential to explore your garden, backyard, front yard or
other parts of your home without being welcome. Certain animals can even make their way
into your home without you even realizing. Some may come in on accident and others might
purposefully break in to find food or shelter. Bats, Loudoun County coyotes, raccoons, skunks, and other
wild animals can easily find themselves in this situation. But the question is: what are
you supposed to do and what is the best way to handle such a situation? You must first of
all know that wild animals in your house, bedroom, kitchen and other parts of your house
will not feel comfortable staying there. So all you need to do is to make a way for the
animal to move out with great speed.
![]() Enclose the Wild Animal in Your House in One Room If a wild animal mistakenly gets into your house, kitchen, bedroom or other room, it will start to panic and look for the best way to escape. In that regard, you are not to panic when you discover the animal as panicking can result in the animal hurting you in a bid to move out of your Virginia house. For that reason, the best thing to do is to enclose the animal in one room with windows and doors closed. Allow the Place to Calm Down For the Animal to Look for Way Out Just allow the animal to relax and think no one is watching again. That will make it easy for the animal to quietly look for a way out of your house. You can then open a door or window that leads to your backyard for the animal to move out peacefully. If it is a Loudoun County raccoon, it may hide inside your house till night when it wants to go out to forage. That means you need to exercise patience for the animal to go away. Ensure You Do Not Corner the Animal Unnecessarily If you are dealing with Virginia skunks, raccoons, coyotes and other wild animals, you should just know that they can feel threatened and bite when cornered. For that reason, you have to avoid cornering them when you see any of them inside your house, bedroom, kitchen and others. Cornering skunks can result in an odorous spray which you will not be able to escape and it can cause a serious offensive odor in your house and even on your body. Also, a raccoon can bite when that is the only option to defend itself, and you can never tell whether the raccoon in your house has rabies or not. Contact Wild Animal Removal Experts If you are not brave enough to deal with a wild animal yourself maybe in the case of snakes or even raccoons, you can contact a Loudoun County wild animal removal expert in your area. That will help you avoid endangering your life in any way as the experts will take the risk in removing the animal. ![]() Go back to the Animal Shelter Loudoun County home page. Or the Wildlife Removal Loudoun County |