Why do animals invade your home?
There are a few basic reasons that wildlife wants to be in your home. To start, your home provides the perfect habitat for wildlife to thrive. In the attic you have a dark remote place that gives the animals the security that they are looking for. As for rodents, the insulation gives them the perfect burrowing material to feel at home. As for squirrels, raccoons, possums, etc. the insulation is the perfect material to make their nesting area to have kits in the attic. That time period is in the Spring and Fall. While we get calls all year round for the animals in the attic, we get an uptick in calls around the mating and birthing seasons.
Another factor to consider is the weather. Just like people, when the weather gets cold the animals want to get into a warm area. What better area than in your attic or crawlspace to get out of the elements? The animals will be out of the wind and cold, they can store food in these areas as well. Most of the time you are going to have one species of animal in the attic, so there typically isn’t a fear of other animals. That is not to say that other animals won’t follow the scent trails to find their way into your home and take over from the original nuisance animal. For example, if you have mice in the crawl space, there is a chance that you will have a snake try to get in to capture the mice.
We also see that a lot of times the problem usually starts with a small rodent issue and if it goes untreated, can lead to squirrels, then raccoons, etc. The larger animal usually wins in the wildlife world, so either the smaller animal vacates the area or the larger animal forces the smaller animal out.
