Scraping scrambling bumping thumping and sometimes squeaking.
Rodents in attic and walls.
If their nest is inside your walls you have dead mice in the walls.
Mice are capable of fitting through extremely small openings in floors walls and foundations.
If you have mice living in your attic it is likely that they are traveling down through your wall voids to access areas of your home that have food or water sources.
This is the noise you ll hear.
Rats leave greasy smudge marks along run ways and entry or exit holes they are using.
7 rub marks and footprints.
After they enter homes they can be extremely difficult to get rid of.
A quick inspection of the outside of your home can give you a good indication of whether you have mice in the walls.
Homeowners can use spring loaded traps live traps and glue.
Sometimes they live and rat nest in the walls and sometimes they just run up and down the walls via wires and pipes as they travel through the house perhaps from ground level entry points up to the attic.
Often times mice enter the home at lower entry points and from there go up or down.
Mice often live in hidden areas within homes including storage boxes attics lofts and wall interiors.
The best remedy to get rid of mice without poison is traps.
Rats will live in any part of the architecture from the basement up to the attic and of course in between the walls.
A strong correlation exists between mice in the walls and mice in the attic.
Baiting mice with poison presents a problem.
Rats will make holes up to 2 inches wide.
Check your attic for trails in the insulation.
Look for signs of rats gnawing on food containers in a pantry.