Clues from a Night Critter

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This house was built entirely by the hands of the first owner and his brothers in and I've tried to keep the integrity of it as close to original as possible even with my 'remodeling'. I even ripped off all of the drywall five years ago and discovered original oak tongue-in-groove beadboard walls and ceilings that are now exposed even more 'toeholds' available.

Nothing is in the walls anywhere with easy access for anything larger than a mouse because as new wiring was being added over time, we realized that there are diagonal 2X4's nailed in between all of the original vertical studs and it was a real PITA trying to find areas for new wiring to get to the circuit breaker box that I had to replace because the original from when the house first was wired for electricity had only glass fuses and those old huge original main fuses.

Indoor plumbing went in about four years later Otherwise all the sideways stability would have been on the nails alone. I've seen a number of older country homes having siding replaced and many of them were built that way. Of course it could have been added later, but I suspect based on the date you give, it was part of the original structure.

The laundry room and bathroom were added later and were originally the old back porch that had been added years before plumbing was imagined. That porch was enclosed, plumbing added and the porch divided for the two rooms.

When I first moved in the washing machine was still hooked up to the gravity reservoir and only had ice cold water to wash with until I added the extra plumbing for hot and cold and the pipes connected to give me both. The actual center beam under the house is a massive tree truck laid on its side the entire length of the house from front to back and propped up with huge boulders from the property.

When I had the entire upstairs ripped off ten years ago and rebuilt, the local building inspector needed to come and make sure my center beam would pass inspection or if I would have had replace it and to use concrete and posts to keep the house jacked up for the extra weight. Since all my weight was around the outside perimeter walls, it passed as is and I was told that was pretty normal back in around here.

I have concrete blocks. I thought I'd posted one with links to examples of various older diagonal bracing, but it seems not to be here, or ended up in some other thread. Google and you can find frame diagonal bracing and also where the sheathing was placed on in diagonals to serve as the diagonal bracing. I had a wonderful time hand raising him and he hung around the cage we built, and which he broke out of very quickly until late fall at which point he answered the call of the wild as he was intended. Raccoons have a very wide vocabulary, and particularly when nursing cubs a purring sound emanates from both mother and kits.

The little ones have a great "Please, Please" sound which is an upward rising repeated squeak when hungry. Meeting and greeting family members tends to be chirring.

They also hiss like cats, which is a particularly good time to get lost, because they do charge, they do bite very hard and have very sharp teeth. I never got bitten badly, but my nose took a chomp which didn't break the skin and taught me not to presume too much on our acquaintanceship. The limited sounds offered by your visitor and the lack of clearance beneath your home leads me to think feral cat, possibly raising a family which would provoke purring.

Apparently science still doesn't know how purring sounds are made.

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From experience it seems to be related to breathing because they purr on both the exhale and the inhale, and there is a slight change in tonal quality between the two. However cats can go from utter contentment to clawing and biting the hand stroking them in a heart-beat. I have the scars to prove it. I owned a pet raccoon, named Ivan the Terrible. I never hear any squeaking that would kind of indicate a passel of babies And whatever it is isn't intimidated by my stomping hard right above its head LOL If it was a feral cat we have tons of them here because of the fields and farms and barns everywhere , I would think that at least once in all this time I would have spotted it or my dogs would have chased after it.

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My dobie would only tolerate my housecat because she was here first and didn't take any crap from him, but he was my hunter and killed and dropped critters at the front steps, including feral cats he came across, almost on a daily basis, and this thing has been around a long time to survive him. He's been gone passed away for about a year now, but he had two full years of being able to get to it and didn't.

Since, you can't find any entry from ground level then it maybe using upper entry and reaching below the house. As for protection should you try, a good claw hammer does well in close quarters to include any type of spray like bug spray as well. Of course that's up to you. You can use ground hog or mole "smoke bomb" to see if any entry can be found that way. You are posting a reply to: Track this discussion and email me when there are updates. You are reporting the following post: This post has been flagged and will be reviewed by our staff. Thank you for helping us maintain CNET's great community.

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But wait - sometimes raccoons can make noises during the day too - they don't necessarily sleep all day. But raccoons also make night noises, and they are heavier and slower.

If you hear vocal growls, calls, or a sort of chattering, it's almost certainly raccoons. The other animals are silent.

Possible answer:

Bats make a very high-pitched chirp, but it's unlikely you'd ever hear it. But raccoons, especially baby raccoons, make a lot of vocal racket.

So if you hear that, it's raccoons. Fast Pitter-Patter at Night: Most likely rats or mice.

They can be surprisingly loud, depending on house acoustics. They can sometimes scratch, but if you hear fast running, particularly if it goes up and down walls, then you've got rats or mice! A mouse is pretty small, so the sound will match - in timbre if not volume. This one is a little more vague, but of course thumping usually comes from larger animals, so it's most likely from raccoons or opossums.

Ultimately, an inspection of the attic will tell you what animal you've got. It's actually rare to spot the animal it does happen, as seen in the above photographs that I took but most of the time the animal s are excellent at hiding themselves, or they slink down a wall, under insulation, down in the soffit, or out of the attic at the first sign that someone is coming up to inspect.

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