Animal In My Wall

[Jenks]

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Your only solution now is finding where the rodent is getting in. Basement, roof, exteroir crack in brick- that's about it. Obviously, i'd check the roof last since it's going to be the biggest pain in the assn (unless the only time you hear the noise is when you're on the 3rd floor.) Your house is a rehab from a two family into a one, was there a fireplace at any point in your house? is there still a chimney? Do you have an attic or some kind of crawl space above your 3rd floor? I'll bet you do, as i don't recall your 3rd level being pitched the same as your roof.

Basements cause all sorts of problems, especially considering the area of the city you live in and the probably concrete block construction of your seller/basement. Is your basement like that basement we had on Waterman? if so, lots of ways to get into the interoir of your home that way. Get a flashlight and start looking. Better yet, send your wife down there first. lol.

One other place you might check...your dishwasher. Take off the bottom panel and look for mouse poop. That's where i caught the fucker in my last house, coming in through the broken seal around the waste pipe. I'll bet it's a mouse. If it really does sound larger than that, and i mean most definitely not a mouse, i'm betting it's a squirell, and you're got a hole along the roof line somewhere, or the chimney if you have one of those. Sucks man, you've got a really big house so it isn't going to be easy finding the source of the problem.

All the replies about living with the poor rodent, uh...no, kill that bastard any way possible. IF it ever gets past the interoir wall, your wife isn't going to appreciate it very much when she sees it scurry across the floor.

[day_for_night]

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or a six legged cow with two udders and vagina's. think that's far fetched? click here

honestly kinky, where do you find some of this shit

[KinKyJ]

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or a six legged cow with two udders and vagina's. think that's far fetched? click here

[threehills]

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maybe a snake?

SNAKES in the MUTHA FUCKING walls!

[KinKyJ]

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Here's a thought, if it's not hurting you, live with it . Name it if it makes you feel better.

Yeah, like Poltergeist or something

Weird that it got into a brick wall though. Could be a bird or like Karen said a bat that made its way in from the roof.

[chanty]

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There has to be alternative ways of removing animals from your house besides a cruel slow and painful death.
I don't know where you live, but I'd be happy to do an internet search for you.

[Lorn]

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maybe its the lsd you took in college.

I should have thought of that. Jib you are most certainly right.

[Jibgolly]

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maybe its the lsd you took in college.

[DancingQueen]

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I bet it's a bat.

I had one become stuck in the hallway wall of my old apartment. It totally freaked me out and my cats were glued to that wall for days until it was silent. I am guessing it died in there, but I moved out way before it became an issue to me.

[DIDI]

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Here's a thought, if it's not hurting you, live with it . Name it if it makes you feel better. Alternatively I have those plug in ultrasonic,electro magnetic?? things in my house and I don't have any rodent problems. With most of the poisons the animals die an awful death. [I'm a softy!]

[Lorn]

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Probably mice (plural). Set some traps. See if they come out to play.

[hambino21]

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I actually don't know. I heard it from these exterminators when I was at this apartment, they were talking about it. I don't know if it's for consumer use or if it's professional only . sorry.

[toasty]

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they have poisons out there that extremely dehydrate the animal, and there for when it dies you won't smell it, because the fluids are what tends to stink.

really? Any idea what they're called?

[toasty]

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How's your house constructed? Wooden or brick walls? On what kind of foundation do they rest? What kind of isolation is in the walls?

Brick house, stone foundation, drywall walls. Not sure re insulation, but the house was a gut rehab (ripped to the shell and rebuilt) when I bought it last year, so it's whatever is currently used for insulation for new construction, probably fiberglass.

You'd think it'd be easy to just hop outside and look around, but the wall at issue is on the third floor, so it's not quite as easy as it might seem.

[hambino21]

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they have poisons out there that extremely dehydrate the animal, and there for when it dies you won't smell it, because the fluids are what tends to stink.