You can also look at the animal tracks left in the dust in the attic.
Animal in attic.
Raccoons can enter your attic through loose shingles and or openings the roof and eaves.
It is not easy work and there are many important variables removal of critters in the attic requires very specific special knowledge.
By turning on bright lights and a radio you can make your attic an unpleasant environment to encourage raccoons to leave on their own.
Mice are common in many areas as well.
The most common critter to enter attics in many areas including where i work in florida is the rat.
Rats and mice are very common animals in attics throughout much of the country.
Animals inside the attic this is our area of top specialty.
The methods vary considerably depending on the type of animal in the attic.
Raccoons are capable of ripping shingles off and chewing holes in buildings.
Roof rats in particular are very common in attics in warmer areas and norway rats in cities.
If you have rats the entire building must be sealed first and then all the rats trapped and removed.
These small rodents can fit through tiny entry holes and infest an attic in large numbers.
Look at photos of raccoon feces or squirrel feces or rat feces or mouse feces or bat feces.
Rats and mice in the attic.
There are two main species of rats in the us the roof rat and the norway rat.
For example we must consider these factors.
Animals in attic common wild animals in attic include squirrels mice rats raccoons and bats.
Occasionally we find chipmunks opossums birds and snakes.