By the size of the poop.....
Looks suspicious. Squirrels are amazingly strong.
either way it’s gotta go out for water.
Sounds as if you rent your place. Is it an apartment, a duplex, what?
What kind of construction is it?
As I recall, it is in Queens. Am I correct?
Purely out of curiosity, is your place under rent control?
Don’t know much about the topic, but If the tail-like thing disappeared again, I’d say it was a rat.
If it stays there, it can’t be alive. Go get it and see if it’s a dead tail.
Normally, you can hear a squirrel if it’s above you.
Act fast. Once they have babies, they are extremely difficult to get rid of. They can gnaw through solid brick, if motivated.
This is great! Maybe that’s what I have, too? Though everyone around me insists that it’s toys.
cut back whatever trees or things any animal can climb up to get to your roof to get it.stick steel wool in spots or close up spots you think could be entries and see if that helps.
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1) You have no intent of going into your attic
2) You know better that people who have already been in your attic, in that you had them remove the placed traps
The squirrels are back. “This time it’s personal”.
I rented a house in Southern California in the 1990’s that had a very large rat in the attic. We could hear it scurrying back and forth at night. At least I assumed that it was a rat. I saw a raccoon sitting on the front wall while walking the dog. It could have been a raccoon instead of a rat. Good luck clearing it out.
A coons dropping are about the size of a cat.
A mouse is tiny and rats droppings are the size of squirrels.
Best way to explain it.
A coon requires a large access hole. Bout the size your coon cat would require.
I don’t know if it’s true with squirrels, but rats can literally collapse their rib cage so that any space their head fits in, can be pulled through with their entire body.
Amazing.
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Rats, mice, squirrels and birds would be the main suspects in the city. Squirrels are the real climbers, but rats can be surprisingly resourceful.
If you have one, get it out of there fast! A raccoon died in my daughter’s roof...and, well, I don’t want to ruin anybody’s breakfast by describing the results...
When I lived in Houston, Texas, we got roof rats in our attic. There was a tree with a branch that was just touching the eave. They had chewed a hole under the soffet and were getting in and out through it. Chopped off the branch and patched the hole and we didn’t have them anymore.
I say squirrels.
You need to have a professional nuisance vermin killer go up there and do her job. You can’t be maudlin about animals that carry disease and can do major damage in your house. Especially animals with such a short and prolific breeding cycle.
Case 1: I just closed on my home and as the wife and I pulled into the driveway of our new home, I saw a squirrel running along the peak of the roof, came to the end, lifted a shingle and ZIP, disappeared.
Went in the home, climbed into the attic and found the spot, and saw a squirrel run away and hid somewhere that I couldn’t see.
Called a pest control guy and he set a “humane” trap and the next day, checking the trap, found mama squirrel with her FIVE smaller juvenile squirrels in the trap.
Case 2: New home, different state, saw a rat do about the same thing but entered under a eave and entered into our attic. Called a very nice pest control guy and he said we likely had more rats in the attic because of so much new construction driving them to seek alternate “homes.”
Solution, the pest control guy trapped several over the next few weeks and he also reinforced the eaves so they were flush and immobile, and he sealed the home by putting up metal barriers all around the eaves and other protrusions on the roof.
Problem solved.