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What Animal Is Making Thumping Noises in My Attic?

Hear a thumping noise in your attic? Raccoons, opossums, and squirrels can sound surprisingly heavy. Here’s how to narrow it down.

Scratching in your walls at night is often mice or rats. I’ll help you narrow down the animal by its sound, timing, and other clues.

The best live trap bait depends on the animal. Here’s what works for squirrels, chipmunks, rats, and other small nuisance animals.

Mice avoiding your traps? Placement, competing food, too few traps, excess bait, or a bad setup may be the real problem.

Gray and Cope’s gray treefrogs look nearly identical. Learn why color won’t settle it and how their calls can reveal which frog you found.

Found a hole beside or under your house? Size, dirt, tracks, location, and other clues can reveal what animal is using it.

Gray treefrogs show up on houses, porches, decks, and fences for good reasons. Learn what attracts them and whether you should worry.

Need a sturdy live trap without a huge cage? This heavy-duty humane trap is sized for squirrels and other similar small animals.

Animal ignoring your live trap? The bait may not be the problem. Placement, trap movement, food, sizing, and cage shyness matter too.

Got mice in your house? Learn how to trap the mice inside, find their entry points, seal the gaps, and keep them from coming back.