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What animal is this in our house? (1 Viewer)

gianmarco

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We just woke up to a sound coming from a wall in our bedroom next to the fireplace. Here's a short clip so you can hear it.

Well, hello there.

What have we got?

 
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Kinda sounds like a half-awake drunk smoker trying to find and light a cigarette.

Is it a “real” fireplace with a flue/chimney? Is it capped? Anytime I hear sound and fireplace together I think raccoon.

 
fireplace is a LOCK for squrrel/raccoon/bird.

go outside and check your chinmey cap (you BETTER have one)... and how/why it got dislodged... then fix it. 

 
Still hearing it. It's 6:30 now. But it's moved to our ceiling in our room.

Real fireplace. Should be capped. We did have a couple significant storms this last week, so possible something happened to it.

 
Soulfly3 said:
fireplace is a LOCK for squrrel/raccoon/bird.

go outside and check your chinmey cap (you BETTER have one)... and how/why it got dislodged... then fix it. 
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If you don’t have a chimney cap, my guess would also have been a bird.  But if the sound has moved to the ceiling, then the source did not originate in the fireplace.  Time to explore around the house to find the likely entry point.

 
Yeah, the sound was not IN the fireplace. Just in the wall near it. But it's definitely moved from the wall onto the ceiling in our room. 

It's still pretty active despite it being light outside.

 
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it's a squirrel. 

check the vents/vent caps on your roof (we had squirrels gnaw thru it and a family of 5 was living inside our roof). If nothing, look for other entry points along the soffit etc

 
Soulfly3 said:
it's a squirrel. 

check the vents/vent caps on your roof (we had squirrels gnaw thru it and a family of 5 was living inside our roof). If nothing, look for other entry points along the soffit etc
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Yep, that's what I'm thinking as well. Have someone coming out in next couple days to help find it and get it taken care of. Will update.

 
We had a black snake from the river living in our ducts for an unknown amount of time but that sounded more like a dragging sound in retrospect. It probably would eat whatever you got going on in yours. 

 
gianmarco said:
Yep, that's what I'm thinking as well. Have someone coming out in next couple days to help find it and get it taken care of. Will update.
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We would hear them have full on brawls inside our soffits. Squirrels are absolute savages. 

We had to put a 1-way trap door over the vent that we removed for a day or 2, put on a new vent cap and mission accomplished. 

They almost ALWAYS head out during the day. 

 
if it is a leprochaun you are going to be rich if you save him so first step is get to the store and buy some lucky charms so that you can really get him on your side take that to the bank bromigo

 
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Poke_4_Life said:
I'm going with bats as well.  Common in your area.  (If I correctly remember your area.)
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Not bats. This thing was crawling around, scratching/gnawing.

Possibly a small raccoon, but unlikely. Or a very large rat, but also unlikely. Squirrel fits time of year, sound, time of day, etc.

 
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