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Suggest Answer Request Help Report. More clues for "Like critters counted at night". Shakespeare character who says "Good night, ladies good night, sweet ladies good night, good night". Animal Control agent here, mainly to request a larger live trap cage that I could possibly bait with cat or dog food to see if I could trap it, but after numerous calls, I've never received a call back.

I don't know if an outside independent exterminator would allow me to rent one and I'm not spending a fortune buying one when I don't know what I'm dealing with since cages come in all different sizes. I'll start making calling tomorrow, I guess before it gets firmly entrenched here for the months ahead again and have the cycle continue.

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I've called my local. You could burn some garden sulfur in a smut pot near edge of house skirt and blow under there with a fan, see it come running out, see what it is. Pouring clorox through any access near the center of house under the floor will drive it out too. If it's a cat though, might have kittens too young to flee. Possums, raccoons and many squirrels are nocturnal.

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If you hear this mostly in the early morning, it's most likely you've got a nighttime animal returning for its daytime sleep. If in the early evening, it's something waking up.

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The "purring" noise makes me wonder if there might be more than one. Of course you could have a snoring critter as well but the time this happens might have relevance. Start by mentioning what time of day or night. But the most active wouldn't be when you'd hear them purring, in fact that's when I would expect a feral cat to be out and about. To hear it through the floor though, it would have to be a loud purrer if a feral cat. One of mine is that loud, one is almost hard to hear in your lap. Interesting you dog and cat don't really react.

Another cat might not cause a reaction. But my indoor cats are really nosey and press against the storm door when the inside door is open and a neighborhood cat comes up to the storm door. Any of your friends have game cameras? Maybe you could set one up where it would catch a picture of your visitor so you'd at least have an idea of what was visiting.

This would mean Toni's critter couldn't be a feral cat. I now read that such purring can happen with a nursing litter. The mother cat and kittens could both purr. Now I wonder if the animal couldn't be coming under the house to nurse. The only thing that makes that idea far fetched is that there would likely be feral cat sightings in growing numbers as more kittens were produced as she said the noise could go away for a month. I was under the impression that cats only purr. LOL, sounds a bit crazy, but the black panther has been making a comeback in some areas, and cougars have been spotted moving into the east.

Might be a panther, or cougar. Once was about five feet away from my computer room along the fence line late at night. My dog at that time scared it away with a typical cougar growl that is unmistakeable. Another time one was sprawled out flat across a huge boulder in the side of my 'mountain' on my property and you could see it very plainly sunning itself and totally relaxed and unafraid of people in the yard at the time The strange thing is that I can't find any way it could come and go so easily to get under the house.

That corner of the house is literally at ground level and I mow very close to the house easily without any bushes or anything in the way other than a few irises. I've checked all over trying to locate a 'tunnel' or opening around my foundation and there's nothing I do have a raised deck about three feet off the dirt that I added to the house about six years ago I will have to crawl up under that and check for 'tunnels' that might have been dug out by a groundhog or something that a larger cat could dig a little wider and have the ability to get under the actual foundation concrete blocks which are only one block deep into the ground there and come up under the house.

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Perhaps if the tunnel was already there, it could be utilized and made larger without too much trouble Maybe no more exotic than a raccoon. I mostly hear the purring sound during daylight hours, but occasionally hear it after sundown never really late night times though and it has never attempted to claw its way into the interior of the house. I don't have plywood under my hardwood floors That gives enough 'claw' leeway for anything under the house wanting in to get a 'toehold' to begin entry. This house was built entirely by the hands of the first owner and his brothers in and I've tried to keep the integrity of it as close to original as possible even with my 'remodeling'.

I even ripped off all of the drywall five years ago and discovered original oak tongue-in-groove beadboard walls and ceilings that are now exposed even more 'toeholds' available. Nothing is in the walls anywhere with easy access for anything larger than a mouse because as new wiring was being added over time, we realized that there are diagonal 2X4's nailed in between all of the original vertical studs and it was a real PITA trying to find areas for new wiring to get to the circuit breaker box that I had to replace because the original from when the house first was wired for electricity had only glass fuses and those old huge original main fuses.

Indoor plumbing went in about four years later Otherwise all the sideways stability would have been on the nails alone.

I've seen a number of older country homes having siding replaced and many of them were built that way. Of course it could have been added later, but I suspect based on the date you give, it was part of the original structure. The laundry room and bathroom were added later and were originally the old back porch that had been added years before plumbing was imagined. That porch was enclosed, plumbing added and the porch divided for the two rooms. When I first moved in the washing machine was still hooked up to the gravity reservoir and only had ice cold water to wash with until I added the extra plumbing for hot and cold and the pipes connected to give me both.

The actual center beam under the house is a massive tree truck laid on its side the entire length of the house from front to back and propped up with huge boulders from the property.

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When I had the entire upstairs ripped off ten years ago and rebuilt, the local building inspector needed to come and make sure my center beam would pass inspection or if I would have had replace it and to use concrete and posts to keep the house jacked up for the extra weight. Since all my weight was around the outside perimeter walls, it passed as is and I was told that was pretty normal back in around here.

I have concrete blocks. I thought I'd posted one with links to examples of various older diagonal bracing, but it seems not to be here, or ended up in some other thread. Google and you can find frame diagonal bracing and also where the sheathing was placed on in diagonals to serve as the diagonal bracing. I had a wonderful time hand raising him and he hung around the cage we built, and which he broke out of very quickly until late fall at which point he answered the call of the wild as he was intended.

Raccoons have a very wide vocabulary, and particularly when nursing cubs a purring sound emanates from both mother and kits. The little ones have a great "Please, Please" sound which is an upward rising repeated squeak when hungry.

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Meeting and greeting family members tends to be chirring. They also hiss like cats, which is a particularly good time to get lost, because they do charge, they do bite very hard and have very sharp teeth. I never got bitten badly, but my nose took a chomp which didn't break the skin and taught me not to presume too much on our acquaintanceship. The limited sounds offered by your visitor and the lack of clearance beneath your home leads me to think feral cat, possibly raising a family which would provoke purring.

Apparently science still doesn't know how purring sounds are made.