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What's in my roof/attic?

Gibson486

Gibson486

Lifer
Every now and then, I hear this scraping sound above me. I sounds like there is something dragging a dead animal around. Then, at times, you hear this scraping....like it is trying to dig something up. Sometimes, I take the broom and just bang where the sound is. At the point, you hear it scrambling away only to come back 30 seconds later. What do you think it could be? Mouse? Squirrel? Racoons?
 
I would probably grab a flashlight and ladder and go look instead of posting on atot. but hey, that's just me...
errr... sorry. just saw your "i don't have access" post.
 
My guess is rats. Get some of the old-school traps from Home Depot or wherever, screw them to a short bit of 2x4 (so the rat can't drag the drap off into some inaccessible corner and die) and bait with little bits of rag coated with peanut butter. Rats are complete whores for peanut butter.
 
GotIssues said:
That's just dumb. Ninjas 1) wouldn't make a sound and 2) would make him the first victim.

How can you not have access to your attic? There is pretty much (if not every time, I'm not a contractor) always an entry in.
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There is access, but it's blocked off. I'd rather not go through the hassle of unblocking it.
 
Fausto said:
My guess is rats. Get some of the old-school traps from Home Depot or wherever, screw them to a short bit of 2x4 (so the rat can't drag the drap off into some inaccessible corner and die) and bait with little bits of rag coated with peanut butter. Rats are complete whores for peanut butter.
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I once did this because I SWORE I was woken up by a rustling noise and saw a (very blurry, I need glasses) tail disappear under my oven (studio apartment. Basically slept halfway in/out of the kitchen/living area.)

They ate all the rat poison pellets. When they stopped eating them, I stopped putting them down. But the peanut-butter in the trap? Nope. I left the trap in place for over a year before it caught something. (Which prompted me to buy another box of poison pellets.)
 
Gibson486 said:
There is access, but it's blocked off. I'd rather not go through the hassle of unblocking it.
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Let's see, rats chewing your wiring and burning your house down(not to mention disease/fleas/feces/baby rats) OR the hassle of having something to unblock.

Don't get me wrong. I HATE CRITTERS. Especially ones in my house but you've gotta do it.

Rat Zapper, ftw
 
dave_the_nerd said:
I once did this because I SWORE I was woken up by a rustling noise and saw a (very blurry, I need glasses) tail disappear under my oven (studio apartment. Basically slept halfway in/out of the kitchen/living area.)

They ate all the rat poison pellets. When they stopped eating them, I stopped putting them down. But the peanut-butter in the trap? Nope. I left the trap in place for over a year before it caught something. (Which prompted me to buy another box of poison pellets.)
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Decomposing critters in the walls, ftl.
AyashiKaibutsu said:
It's Willie Nelson.
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Hiding his weed.
 
rats, for sure. I'm lazy......I called terminex, and I kid you not, he put out a couple of old school traps (well.....fuck, coulda done that myself). but it did work.
 
highland145 said:
Let's see, rats chewing your wiring and burning your house down(not to mention disease/fleas/feces/baby rats) OR the hassle of having something to unblock.

Don't get me wrong. I HATE CRITTERS. Especially ones in my house but you've gotta do it.

Rat Zapper, ftw
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F that...I will have my landlord do it. That way, he can have his head bit by a rabid animal.
 
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