Virtually all animals want to find a safe and secure place to have their babies. The last thing they want is to have
a new life or two, or ten for that matter, and have some coyote, raccoon or other predator come along and kill it. This
is why they try to find locations that are rather secretive in appearance and afford them the security to be able to
more easily defend that location.
Bats are no different in this respect. They, too, want to find a place that provides them with a secure “home” where they can
have their young and allow them to grow without fear that those infants will be killed. It simply makes sense. Your attic makes
the perfect location if a bat or many bats have gained access into your home. Think about the advantages of having babies
there.
First of all, most attics are rarely disturbed by the occupants of the home. In fact, the average person visits their attic only one
time a year, and usually that is simply to put some box of stored materials they wish to save but will likely never use again. This
gives the bat or bats virtually unlimited freedom to make a nice home out of your attic, and the freedom to have babies in a place
where they feel safe.
Also consider that your attic is frequently a great place to find bugs, what most bats eat for their regular meals. The bat can not only
find food for itself, but when the new bats are old enough to start fending for themselves, they have a fairly ready food supply of wasps,
bees, roaches, beetles, and the like in which to enjoy for their own meal. This is what makes your attic so ideal. The animal may find that
it can enjoy the sanctity of your attic, and never need to leave it to find the resources it needs to survive and ensure that its offspring
do as well.
This should tell you that a bi-annual inspection of your attic is a good idea. Not only should you be searching through the attic to make sure
that there are no animals living there, like a bat or a raccoon, but you should do an outside inspection as well to make sure that there are no
potential entryways. They may not be in there now, but if you don’t close up these loose boards or gaps in the siding they will eventually be
coming.
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