Pest Mystery
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Pest Mystery
A critter has started a campaign of chewing up the weather seal at the bottom of all of our exterior doors, and is even gnawing away the wood frame/sill, opening a daylight gap at the bottom corner of each door. It's ignoring mouse traps baited with peanut butter. Any idea what it might be and how to trap it?
Thanks.
Travis
Thanks.
Travis
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Re: Pest Mystery
I bet a paw print would go a long way, maybe flour or sand around the area and take some photos of what those paws look like and possible route.
Chris
Chris
Re: Pest Mystery
A squirrel did something similar to a shed door, although there was no weatherstripping to chew, just wood.
Re: Pest Mystery
My cat constantly destroyed the weather stripping for as high up as he could reach on 2 doors. This went on for years of scratching and replacing.
Jane
Jane
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Re: Pest Mystery
I had this issue as well.There were droppings around the bottom of my porch that were too big for a mouse or lizard (which have different droppings anyway) and I haven't seen porcupines at my place so I deduced it to be squirrels/chipmunks. I put out a natural pest deterrent that are these balls soaked in natural oils like cedar, lavender, etc. and they seemed to have moved on.