Remove Cats in the Attic

09.05.2006 - Cats in the attic! Cats in the attic! All I keep hearing about is cats in the attic. Meowing and scratching! Prowling and mouse catching! Howling and rat snatching! Well, not howling so much. But yeah, cats in the attic. I remove all kinds of wild animals from attics: raccoons, squirrels, opossums, rats, bats, and even cats. Most of the time, the customer hears scratching and scampering and clawing in the attic. But sometimes they also hear mewing. If they hear mewing, I have reason to suspect that they have cats, for cats howl and mew. If they do have cats, what I do is I catch the cats. I have my methods. Sometimes I place cages baited with cat food, and sometimes I find the hole that the cats are using to enter the attic, and I put a one-way cat door on the hole. The cats go out, but they can't get back in, and then they hiss and scratch and complain, while I softly chuckle. Why are the cats there? They want a safe place to live! They are good at climbing, and an attic is warm and dry. Easy enough. After I catch them, I bring them to the SPCA, and I fix the holes they used to get into the attic, and I clean up the litterbox they've made in the insulation, and the job is done. Cats in the attic! In the above case, the cats were living in an attic of an apartment building.  They were climbing up nearby trees (see the tree behind me in the photo) and entering the attic via the roof ducts.  I sealed off the ducts and set this one-way exclusion door, which the cats can exit, but not re-enter.  I then set traps on the roof, baited with cat food.  In the inset photo is a shot of one of the cats, the one in the bottom cage, sitting inside the attic.