Would YOU do this??

[Jenni]

The only bat I know of big enough to move furniture is Dracula, and I don't think anyone wants to spend the night in a dark attic with HIM!

[highrisemech]

Yea, Your right a Bat is just not going to move furniture unless it is Dracula.

[SARGE]

I tried to clarify about the moving furniture. We have some end tables, etc sitting on the plywood decking. They don't exactly sit flush and slightly wobble when moved. I figured IT was jumping on them for scaling higher.

BTW, I've had a 3 foot square plastic with flour on it, bait in the middle. No tracks whatsoever. However, the bait outside the perimeter was taken. I got a few ultrasound devices from Home Depot that run off a 9v battery (good for 3 days). Seems to have worked for no bait is taken lately. But, batteries get expensive. Bud did the crawdad waltz completely and backed out. The other guys at work started teasing & scaring him. I'm on my own again

[highrisemech]

How about setting up a camera and lights. Then set them on motion detection switches from Home depot.

[corosus]

how about setting up an addaptor or using recharable batteries to save on the batery cost?

[brewer19]

Its obviously a rat bait salesman. He raids the attic every night and laughs silently to himself the next day as you buy the same bait over and over again.



Of course, this theory relies strongly on the fact that such a thing as a rat bait salesman exists.

[audiyoda]

Originally posted by SARGE I got a few ultrasound devices from Home Depot that run off a 9v battery (good for 3 days). Seems to have worked for no bait is taken lately. But, batteries get expensive. Bud did the crawdad waltz completely and backed out. The other guys at work started teasing & scaring him. I'm on my own again

Get a few 9vAC adapters -- splice the wires and run each lead to the battery terminals on the ultrasound devices. Always works for me.

-Craig

[juppy]

Originally posted by brewer19 Its obviously a rat bait salesman. He raids the attic every night and laughs silently to himself the next day as you buy the same bait over and over again. Of course, this theory relies strongly on the fact that such a thing as a rat bait salesman exists.

LOL! Hadn't thought of that!

[SARGE]

audiyoda, they came with adapters but now where to plug them in (in the attic).

[KuhnDog]

I bet its your friend so dont pay him until you see the carcus. But then again he could sneak some road kill up there (not to flat) and say it was the carcus. Personaly i would pay him just to get it to go away. Its a good investment. Even if its your buddy, its a great laugh.

KuhnDog

[audiyoda]

Originally posted by SARGE audiyoda, they came with adapters but now where to plug them in (in the attic).

I assumed there was a plug up there someplace (our new house actually has a full compliment of 4). You could always splice into a line running through the attic -- really not hard to add a plug Sarge.

-Craig

[SARGE]

An update - IT is gone. No more bait taken, no more noises, nada. Perhaps next winter he will return, but by then I'll have crawled every inch of the attic and under the house, looking for his entry point.

The past few weeks there have been rather large flies coming out of an central air vent; started with about 10 a day and dwindled to nothing. May have nothing to do with IT, but was odd.

[troysvihl]

it probably got a lethal does of the poison finally.

Was there any odor coming from where the flys were coming out?

[SARGE]

troy, no there wasn't. I examined the attic area around the duct and found or smelled nothing. The flies were the large variety, supposedly not the maggot type (geez it's lunch time).

I hope I didn't win the battle but lost the war.

[homer15]

Originally posted by Jenni I once read in a book, which means it may or may not be true, that if you make a funnel shaped hole, bigger at the top than at the bottom, and put something in the hole that the coon wants, it will stick it's "hand" in the hole, grab the thing it wants, and not be able to pull it's hand out because it has made a "fist", and they are too dumb to just let go. Of course, if true, it leaves you with one POed coon with 3 arms free, lol.

don't do this... i read that book Where The Red Fern Grows... that kid did this and he ended up having to beat the coon to death with a club. those coons won't let go of it, you have to pry their cold dead hand out of it.
i would try getting a look at the tracks. if it turns out to have a 20 inch paw print, get up there with your camera, man, because some how big foot got in your attick. other than that, it's just some poor confused bum with a taste for the rat poison...

[Sauron]

Man...I wanted to know what IT was so bad( Actually I was going to suggest, going after the bud...killing him and putting his body in the attic...see if its been eaten in the morning. We got ourselves a big Havahart traps, and we caught a possum, a couple skunks, a coon (which currently adorns one of our chairs, and we are still bickering whos going to get the tail!) and some other critters...I'd like to say its a coon or maybe a fox...I dunno...our house sways kinda in the wind...and stuff knocks around in our attic...so...

[rsbrash]

Hmmm, creepy noises, unknown IT in the attic, and then flies. Are you sure this isn't happening in Amettyville????

[mrob]

Originally posted by pstj I agree with audiyoda, a cage could be a good idea. If it's a good cage (a robust one), it works every time. A few years back my father had problems with racoons. He put such a cage, and after 4 nights, 4 racoons had been captured... pstj

What did they do with the racoons?

[pstj]

We ate them .

No, seriously, we brought them to the SPCA, where they were supposedly relocated (I hope they were really relocated, but you never know).

[Black Ice]

i hope it is not a skunk

[Sauron]

Actually coons make great caps (get the the right time of year Skunks...heavens...what if it was a skunk...ah the possibilitys!