Common Attic Animals

Signs animals are in your attic.

Common attic animals.

Raccoons are also very common attic dwellers. There are two types of rats the common rat and the norway rat. Here is a short list of our furry friends that want to call your attic home. House mice can live just about anywhere and are the most commonly found in attics.

Rats are some of the animals you re most likely to find in your attic. Noises in the attic can come from several different types of animals. The best way to identify them is through their droppings which will be brown sausage shaped and curved. There are two species of squirrel commonly found in attics in connecticut.

They will use your roof as a jungle gym practicing their acrobatics and leaping into trees from its convenient peak. They re agile climbers and they re also very smart and curious so they ll get into your home if they re determined to. Roof rats in particular are very common in attics in warmer areas and norway rats in cities. You can also look at the animal tracks left in the dust in the attic.

The norway rat is predominately ground based and lives in sewers and basements. Tree squirrels love to run climb and jump. There are however a few animals that are normally associated with attic trespassers than others. Droppings or urine nests made of paper leaves and twigs squirrels rodents birds disturbed insulation squirrels and raccoons.

Mice and squirrels can be heard gnawing and moving throughout the attic. Animals in attic animals in attic. There are two main species of rats in the us the roof rat and the norway rat. The most common critter to enter attics in many areas including where i work in florida is the rat.

Common roof rats love warm spaces and may seek refuge in your attic during cold or wet winter months. Check on almost any surface not covered by insulation and there should be a layer of dust with animal tracks. These small rodents can fit through tiny entry holes and infest an attic in large numbers. Ducts ripped apart raccoons.

Hear gnawing in the attic but you re not sure if it s rats. Bats in attics can make noises. Mice are common in many areas as well. Probably the most common animals found in attics are rats and mice.

Rats and mice in the attic. Look at photos of raccoon feces or squirrel feces or rat feces or mouse feces or bat feces. The roof rat is more common in warm areas and more likely to enter the attic. Raccoons make certain attic noises.

They are the southern. Or you can check for muddy footprints. If pests have nested in or destroyed your insulation you may need to. Common wild animals in attic include squirrels mice rats raccoons and bats.

Just like with squirrels it s usually female raccoons that make their way indoors in order to birth their young and seek out a safe place from their babies.