Critter In My Crawlspace

JustDave

JustDave

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For two days, I heard a wild scratching coming from my crawl space. It was loud. Imagine a dog digging violently on plywood. I suspected a racoon. I called a pest removable service, and of course they made no commitment as to when they would be here, and then I remembered I have a couple of live traps. I didn't want to do it myself, because it would require being on my knees and belly crawling first under my deck, and then into the door to the foundation for at least two or three days. I'm not as good at crawling on my knees anymore, and I feel it today. But I trapped the little bugger. and saved myself 2 or 3 hundred bucks.

I guess it's just a normal rat, but not one of those Norwegian monsters. He was actually kind of cute, but I took him way out to the woods and released him. I know, I know; He would rather have a house, but maybe he will survive in the wild. Now I have to figure out his point of entry, and I'll be back on my knees again for a couple days.
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JustDave said:
For two days, I heard a wild scratching coming from my crawl space. It was loud. Imagine a dog digging violently on plywood. I suspected a racoon. I called a pest removable service, and of course they made no commitment as to when they would be here, and then I remembered I have a couple of live traps. I didn't want to do it myself, because it would require being on my knees and belly crawling first under my deck, and then into the door to the foundation for at least two or three days. I'm not as good at crawling on my knees anymore, and I feel it today. But I trapped the little bugger. and saved myself 2 or 3 hundred bucks.

I guess it's just a normal rat, but not one of those Norwegian monsters. He was actually kind of cute, but I took him way out to the woods and released him. I know, I know; He would rather have a house, but maybe he will survive in the wild. Now I have to figure out his point of entry, and I'll be back on my knees again for a couple days.
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Good for you for jumping right on it and taking care of biz - you did good!

Seadoug’s raccoons…and your rat.
Home ownership ain’t for sissies😉
 
MaidMarian said:
He is very cute for a rat!
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A few years ago, something was chewing up gloves and things in my wood/garden shed. It ate my mouse poison and was still going strong. That's why I bought the live traps. I caught it right away. I didn't take a picture, and never really identified it. It was sleek and graceful. with a long neck and not rat-like at all. I described it to a friend, and he thought it was probably a "wood rat," something I had never heard of. I'm going to google "wood rat" right now. Don't know why I didn't before.

Edit: Didn't find anything that looked the way I remembered it, but there sure are a lot of different types of rats in Virginia. My photo of this latest catch may be a wood rat. The one that ate my gloves years ago may have been something else entirely.
 
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