There Are Raccoons Living in My House . . . Again.

I first heard them about this time last year. I'm renting a house that was built in 1890 and which has suffered through numerous renovations over the years. The raccoons live between the original (very high) ceilings and the newer (lower) ones. They make a LOT of noise.

A trapper caught three of them over the course of a couple of months last spring, then my landlady's handyman sealed up all of the openings they'd created into the house. I thought that was the end of the story . . . until today, when I heard them scurrying about overhead. It's their mating season right now, so things could get much louder soon.