Critter In My Wall

Mice squirrels and other rodents can sneak into your home through surprisingly small holes then make themselves comfortable in dark hidden spaces like inside of the wall cavity.

Critter in my wall.

The most common nocturnal creatures are mice rats bats and raccoons. Keep in mind that the timing of the sounds could help you figure out what sort of critters you re dealing with or if it s just a tree limb rubbing against the house on a windy day or night. Squirrels are a prime example of a diurnal creature. Rodents will make the most noise during the night when they are searching for food and during the cold winter nights when they are searching for shelter.

The most common complaints associated with rats and mice are the scratching noises heard in walls or ceilings. Mice rats and squirrels have the uncanny ability to find tiny openings and enter your home and then chew their way through walls electrical cords or anything else that might be in their path. But you won t typically hear a raccoon crawling around in your wall voids. The best way to eliminate the smell of a dead animal inside your wall is to find the animal and remove it.

However animals with a nasty bite such as raccoons and squirrels may require an animal control specialist to assist. Hearing scratching or noises in the walls is one of the many signs of having a pest problem. Mice and rats may be relatively easy to remove on your own by using heavy gloves and a long grasping device such as a snare pole to pull them out from the top of the wall. They may also be harvesting the seeds nuts and acorns that they had stored previously in the walls.

This food search mostly takes place at night when the house is quiet. If you can t find the offending animal or don t want to cut into your walls you ll have to do what you can to keep the odor contained and cover it up as much as possible. A rodent in the walls can be just as dangerous as it is annoying. I realized the chimney ran right through that area.

Rats and mice are notorious for annoying scratchy noises in the ceiling and walls as they scurry about looking for food.