Animal in Wall

[Desdamona]

This is what we had for at least a day...


then, finally...

HURRAY!!!

You can see how happy that make our cat Freaky.

[ejr]

Now if we could solve my problem--the experts have been convinced that the animal in my wall, scratching during the day, and chewing the cable line, is a squirrel. On Friday, someone from my village's Animal Control Department came over and she, like me, believes it is a mouse. We are still somewhat baffled as to how it gets in, and how to get rid of it.

Meanwhile, I have placed an old, portable tv on the back of my sofa, pointed it at the spot in the wall where I first here the noise, and blast it at top volume during the day. Two days and the cable line has not been chewed, but I don't know if it is because of the noise, the weather, the mouse has gone away, or died, or none of the above.

Some day I will look back at this and laugh, but I am concerned it will chew an electrical wire and/or die within my wall.

Very tired of this animal!!!

[Desdamona]

Now if we could solve my problem--the experts have been convinced that the animal in my wall, scratching during the day, and chewing the cable line, is a squirrel. On Friday, someone from my village's Animal Control Department came over and she, like me, believes it is a mouse. We are still somewhat baffled as to how it gets in, and how to get rid of it.

Meanwhile, I have placed an old, portable tv on the back of my sofa, pointed it at the spot in the wall where I first here the noise, and blast it at top volume during the day. Two days and the cable line has not been chewed, but I don't know if it is because of the noise, the weather, the mouse has gone away, or died, or none of the above.

Some day I will look back at this and laugh, but I am concerned it will chew an electrical wire and/or die within my wall.

Very tired of this animal!!!

Maybe I should have saved that "extra" cat for you...

How about temporarily installing a python or other hungry snake?

[ejr]

cat or snake won't help as there is no evidence that the mouse has been in the house, only in the wall, and I have only heard it on one wall, during daylight hours.

[A1A-Keet]

a Mongoose then?

[ph4ever]

cat or snake won't help as there is no evidence that the mouse has been in the house, only in the wall, and I have only heard it on one wall, during daylight hours.

when we had a mouse in the wall I threatened it with a shotgun blast. I was seriously ready to blow a hole in my wall. The mouse must have known what I was talking about because after about the 3rd time of me yelling at it "I'll get a shotgun and blast your a$$" I never heard the sound again.

[ejr]

cat or snake won't help as there is no evidence that the mouse has been in the house, only in the wall, and I have only heard it on one wall, during daylight hours.

when we had a mouse in the wall I threatened it with a shotgun blast. I was seriously ready to blow a hole in my wall. The mouse must have known what I was talking about because after about the 3rd time of me yelling at it "I'll get a shotgun and blast your a$$" I never heard the sound again.

I have yelled at it a lot, though not that particular phrase (though something equally menacing).

[Desdamona]

cat or snake won't help as there is no evidence that the mouse has been in the house, only in the wall, and I have only heard it on one wall, during daylight hours.

You could thread the snake down into the wall... but then you'd need the mongoose.

[ejr]

cat or snake won't help as there is no evidence that the mouse has been in the house, only in the wall, and I have only heard it on one wall, during daylight hours.

You could thread the snake down into the wall... but then you'd need the mongoose.

One of the teachers at school suggested that it wasn't a mouse, but a moose. I imagine the imprint of a moose antler coming through the wood paneling of my family room.

[Snowparrot]

Your walls would have to be awfully thick to get a moose stuck in there--don't worry about the antlers!

Good luck with the critter!

[ejr]

Your walls would have to be awfully thick to get a moose stuck in there--don't worry about the antlers!

Good luck with the critter!

Yep, but when this starts getting to me, I can laugh at the thought of an antler coming through the wood paneling