Raccoons in neighbor's house

is this current events?

Boston_res is spot on. A picture if worth a thousand words. Speaking of words..

Have you tried Google translator? Write something something in english and let goggle translate it into their language. Maybe find a local community group of your neighbors' ethnic group and they might check the translation for you.

You can call animal control and ask if they can handle it. I suspect, they'd say no, that's it's up to the homeowner.

Inspectional services might follow-up if you give them a call. On a nearby street, one homeowner called them because she had rats nesting under the roots of a tree. She blamed other neighbors who have bird feeders. Inspectional services confirmed the rats' nests and told the neighbors with birdfeeders to sweep up, and keep sweeping up, the seeds from the ground under the feeders or they'd be ticketed. I don't know if the neighbor with the rats was ticket or if she had to get an exterminator to get rid of them.

So if you call them, inspectional services probably would check around to find out what's attracting the raccoons, besides checking on the house in questions.

Pls let us know the end of your story. We've got raccoons around here too.

If raccoons live in your neighbor's house, then they live everywhere else in your neighborhood already. There is no added danger for your family and dogs.

Here are some useful tips.

http://www.wildlife-removal.com/get-raccoons-out-attic.html

And a bonus sound segment. https://youtu.be/-cQAACCyHUc

I heard this in the woods in spring for years and always assumed it was a bird.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rj...

Maybe they are feeding them like Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens fame. I think recording the neighbors house might be a little creepy depending on the angle and else is in view. Why not cut to the chase and call animal control or the city hall hotline.

It's hard to imagine your neighbors don't know about it because those varmints create a ruckus and do damage. I once had a family of four living under my deck and they tried getting in the house. Their paw prints and scratches were all over the door. Freaky! I drove them out with a hose and they reluctantly left, crossing a busy street to find new environs. I threw a bunch of ammonia soaked rags and moth balls under there to discourage them from returning but, once the odor had dissipated, they came back a week later. Drove them out again and put up some chicken wire to keep them out. Problem solved. I've also heard you can hire people to trap them and bring them somewhere more rural.

However, that doesn't solve your problem which is your neighbors not being willing or able to take care of their property. I watched squirrels go in and out of my elderly neighbor's attic for years. She was aware of it but just couldn't deal with it. Eventually she died and the house was knocked down.

As others have already mentioned, I would start by learning a few words in their language, ringing their door bell, using sign language or showing a photo or video, pointing out the spot of entry, etc. and see what happens.

After that, a call to ISD wouldn't hurt either. Good Luck!

My landlord said that a couple tenants ago raccoons got into the attic of the house we live in, and he was told he could trap them to get them out of the house, but had to release them on his property. (He may or may not have transported them to another property he owns further out into the boonies.) But they really can do a lot of damage structurally and to the wiring, to say nothing of what they might be bringing in, and what else might get in through a raccoon-sized hole. As long as they're not rabid, the threat to the family is probably low - they're unlikely to bite or anything, and seeing the raccoons in the daytime does not mean they're rabid, I learned recently - but I suppose the primary problem is that unless you button up the house after you've removed them, they'll get back in, and the longer it goes on the harder it is to clean up. All of which is your neighbor's problem, really, but it doesn't mean it won't drive you nuts in the meantime. But I do think trying to talk to the family - with language help - before calling animal control is the answer. If animal control can't help, maybe they'll have some suggestions.

My neighbor had a raccoon family behind the walls in a finished attic . The exterminator told them by law he couldn't remove them until the young ones were more grown up and ready to leave the nest (or whatever they call it). They had to wait a couple of months, finally got the raccoons removed, and sealed the holes in their eaves.

An upstairs neighbor didn't know they had one in the attic until it went exploring through the walls and fell through the ceiling. "What's that noise? Big rat??" Police came at 1am, took a couple hours to get the animal control officer. Pretty much destroyed their nice white living room furniture.

Animal Rescue League of Boston, Rescue hotline: 617-426-9170. They will know what to do; they will help you.