There is something in my walls (floor, washer, water heater, sink)
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So im sitting watching tv and i hear a noise coming from my kitchen. I go into the kitchen and the scratching is coming from where my dish washer is. Not in the washer but underneath it where the baseboard is. There is a small gap between the washer and the floor. I flick on my flashlight and see an eyeball looking back at me. I freak out and spray tag into the hole. End of problem.
Next day i hear noise go in there again and it sticks a paw through the gap. Im pretty sure its a cat now but not 100% sure. Or something with a paw as large as a cat. I dont believe its stuck in there because it has been coming and going now for the past few days. Im pretty sure my tuna and chicken attracted the "cat". There must be some type of crawl space underneath my floor or something. Anyways im not sure what the next step is. Can anyone help me out?
It could very well be a cat. Walk around the outside of your house and see where he could be getting in.
A few years ago I had a neighbor call me to come get my cat. Who was sitting up on top of her washing machine. The wind had blown open the door to her water heater (which was outside). There was a hole in the wall between the water heater closet and the house. The cat walked through the hole and got into her house where he hopped up on her washer and started howling to be fed. (I removed said cat, closed and latched the door to her water heater and urged her to get the hole patched.)
No it was a paw plus a full arm. I dont know that it was a cat but it was the size of cat. i thought about a possum or something but it was too damned friendly to be a possum.
Make sure the paw is not black. (skunk) Otherwise, yeah, probably a cat. If there is a cat, you have a hole much larger than is need for a rat, so the cat is your early warning. You'll need to find the access point and seal it up. Before sealing, you'll want to use some type of excluder door that allows the cat out, but not back in.
Back when I had to share apartments with room-mates, I would get back from work and find my cat outside. I checked with the roomies, but they denied ever putting the cat out. One day one of them came up to me and told me that they had figured out what was happening. The cat would go under the kitchen sink, through the hole where the sewer pipe exited, and then through a similar hole in the undersink area of the apartment next door. The resident there had no idea where the cat came from and promptly tossed it outside.
No it was a paw plus a full arm. I dont know that it was a cat but it was the size of cat. i thought about a possum or something but it was too damned friendly to be a possum.
Possums can be perfectly friendly. I had one that used to come through the cat door and have a nice little meal every evening. He wasn't a bit afraid of my broom.
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