Common Attic Animals

Here is a short list of our furry friends that want to call your attic home.

Common attic animals.

The roof rat is more common in warm areas and more likely to enter the attic. Common roof rats love warm spaces and may seek refuge in your attic during cold or wet winter months. Block any animals from entering your home and keep them out of your home to get them gone for good. Animals in attic common wild animals in attic include squirrels mice rats raccoons and bats.

The best way to identify them is through their droppings which will be brown sausage shaped and curved. Noises in the attic can come from several different types of animals. Rats and mice in the attic. Tree squirrels love to run climb and jump.

Mice are common in many areas as well. Keeping these animals out of your attic is the best approach. Strategies for keeping an attic animal free mainly involve consistent home inspections and maintenance. Take steps to correct the conditions that attract critters in the first place.

Rarely will you actually see the animals in the attic. But when you read the signs it s easy to identify what animals you have. The most common critter to enter attics in many areas including where i work in florida is the rat. Occasionally we find chipmunks opossums birds and snakes.

Rats are some of the animals you re most likely to find in your attic. Squirrels give birth twice a year in late summer and late winter and the babies take only about 8 weeks to be full grown. Raccoons make certain attic noises. Animals living in your attic can cause damage to the wiring plumbing and structure of your home while also bringing in diseases.

These small rodents can fit through tiny entry holes and infest an attic in large numbers. Raccoons usually have young in spring but it varies depending on climate. It happens for me less than 5 of the time. Bats in attics can make noises.

This matters a lot because most animals inside an attic are there to build a nest and raise baby animals. Squirrels raccoons and rodents can carry disease and chew through your wiring creating a fire hazard. There are two main species of rats in the us the roof rat and the norway rat. They will use your roof as a jungle gym practicing their acrobatics and leaping into trees from its convenient peak.

There are however a few animals that are normally associated with attic trespassers than others. Mice and squirrels can be heard gnawing and moving throughout the attic. Hear gnawing in the attic but you re not sure if it s rats.