Animals in the Attic?

"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot) 02/27/2016 at 09:00 • Filed to: Houselopnik

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I’m confident that we have a unwanted guest, but I’m not sure what/who. It’s usually active in the dawn or early morning. I can hear it scrapping stuff up there but it makes no vocal sounds, and it doesn’t sound small (but not totally sure though). It didn’t come through the access to the attic, because that panel is in the house.

So, I’m not sure what to do next. Should I let it be? Call a professional? Try to take care of it myself? Ask someone I don't like to handle it?

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 09:00

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Call a professional to handle it

-been there, done that

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 09:08

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CALL A PROFESSIONAL. We had a similar problem, except my Dad decided that we would take care of the problems ourselves. So we set out poison for it. It smelled for weeks.

Rainbow > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 09:10

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That sounds like a good band name.

pip bip - choose Corrour > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 09:11

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8)

OPPOsaurus WRX > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 09:11

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Call around to places like rescue leagues, vets or shelters to see if you can get a trap. Then you can drive it out to the woods and let it go

zeontestpilot > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/27/2016 at 09:13

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I thought this was funny, wife didn't really react, lol.

zeontestpilot > Rainbow 02/27/2016 at 09:13

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It is already, lol.

zeontestpilot > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 02/27/2016 at 09:16

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Well I guess I can scratch off the ‘murder it’ choice I had.

zeontestpilot > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 02/27/2016 at 09:16

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Hope it's not too expensive...

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 09:18

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The smell is one of the worst smells, and it takes forever to go away.

zeontestpilot > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/27/2016 at 09:18

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Seems simple enough.

OPPOsaurus WRX > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 09:21

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Let me know when you make the calls how many responses start with 'because budget cuts....'

Xyl0c41n3 > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 09:24

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Rats/mice can be really loud, making you think there’s something much bigger in there than there really is. Or it could be a raccoon. I’d echo other suggestions to see if you can get a non-lethal trap, especially if it’s a raccoon. If it’s a mouse or rat, I’d feel less guilty about putting out lethal traps or bait. A word of caution about poison baits, though: eventually whatever eats them WILL die. It can literally be a stinky pain in the neck if they decide to keel over somewhere hard to reach like inside a duct or crawl space.

zeontestpilot > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/27/2016 at 10:01

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Why would they say that?

OPPOsaurus WRX > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 10:05

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That’s what I ran into when I had a wild life problem. Everywhere I called didn’t have traps or couldn’t loan then because budget costs. You could always buy a trap and donate it after if you run into that problem.

E92M3 > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 10:17

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Go up there middle of the day, and look for an obvious entry point. Seal it up. I had flying squirrels that were coming into my attic at night. After sealing the entry point I could hear them on the roof trying to get back in for about a week. Eventually they gave up, and moved on to somewhere else.

shop-teacher > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 11:01

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If the trap loan doesn’t work out, I called a professional when we had a raccoon in the chimney. It wasn’t terribly expensive either.

Urambo Tauro > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 12:20

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I’d get a cat and stick it up there for a while.

zeontestpilot > Urambo Tauro 02/27/2016 at 12:27

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My cat is a pushover. We have a mice problem too, and she kills nothing. But she's fluffy!

Urambo Tauro > zeontestpilot 02/27/2016 at 12:34

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I have three “barn cats” at home that I don’t even have to feed. They patrol the perimeter (when they’re not napping on the porch).

zeontestpilot > Urambo Tauro 02/27/2016 at 13:31

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Our local strays stopped visiting...