It really depends on what the Danbury animal is doing in the house, is it there by accident because if it is it will be desperately looking for a way out so probably the best thing you can do if you don't want to kill it or if you're afraid to confront it, like in the case of a raccoon, then the best thing you can do is to close the door in the room it is in so it cannot just go rampaging through the rest of the house and then open any windows to the outside, and get the curtains out of the way as well and hopefully it will leave at the first opportunity. One trick I heard for knowing the animal has actually left is to spread some flour around the exits so the animal will leave footprints in it when it does leave.



If you have an animal that is usually nocturnal in your house in daylight, like a Connecticut raccoon, watch it very carefully for a short amount of time to see how it is behaving, it is behaving in what even to you seems an unnatural manner, then attempt to isolate the animal without getting very close to it and keep your pets well clear, call your local animal control agency and advise them you believe you have an animal in your house that is rabid, usually the mention of that word gets them moving pretty fast and they will take care of the animal usually within a couple of hours. The critical thing when dealing with an animal that you think is rabid is to keep your family and especially your pets away from it, the last thing you want is one of your kids or one of your pets being bitten.

On the other hand if you are sitting down to dinner at night and it is a lovely summer's night and you suddenly have a Danbury raccoon in your dining room it is probably hungry and thirsty and they can smell everything it wants on your table, so you have a couple of choices, give it some food and water, preferably outside but definitely not at the table, if it insists on eating at a table you may have to persuade it that that is not a good idea, to be ruthless about it, a golf club or a baseball bat will generally make your message clear.

A lot of the time wild Connecticut animals that are more used to humans, the urbanized varieties, will only wind up inside a house by mistake, they have just followed their nose a little too far and they are now in a place they are very unfamiliar with. Houses have things that most wild animals cannot comprehend, if they are on carpet when they first panic their claws will dig in and almost prevent them from running, when they finally get off the carpet they are on tiles on which they can get absolutely no grip at all, in fact they usually wind up going in a completely different direction to the one they want to go in, all this just adds up to increased panic which makes the animal more and more dangerous.

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