OK... did not want to start a thread just for this... so I will add it here...
On Sun morn I was sitting on the couch watching the morning talk shows... I heard some scratching and other noises coming from the dining room... ignored it as I figured it was one of the cats... but, the noise of something running back and forth got me worried about one of the cats...
So, I get up and yell for Sunny to stop doing what he was doing... I was in the opening between the living room and front hall which leads to the dining room.... and I hear the scratching above me.... my thought... how in the heck did Sunny get there? So I yell for Sunny to stop what he is doing and then open the door to tell DW something was happening... well, looking up at me was Sunny!!! He was wondering why I was yelling at him... he hears the rustling above also and is now jumping up to investigate... our second cat hears the commotion and also comes to follow the goings on above....
Now, this is BETWEEN the first and second floor, not in the attic... DW wakes up and is asking what is happening... I say some animal has gotten between our floors and cannot get out
.... She says 'what are we going to do? I do not want a dead animal in the house'.... neither do I... So, I know that a friend has had this happen to him before, but it was his attic... but it is too early to call so I decide to look up people who get critters out of a house... I find a few, but they do not do anything on Sun....
I have to go tell DW we have to live with this until Mon.... when I go downstairs the cats are still moving around and staring at the ceiling trying to find their prey.... what do I hear? The animal is falling inside the wall!!! It is making a huge racket, and the built in furniture seems to amplify the sound... DW does not like the news and also the comment that we will now have to cut a hole in the wall to get the bugger out...
I have failed to mention that this sounds like a larger animal, so I am thinking opossum or maybe even a racoon..... and it being in the wall means it is there.... no way to climb out.... the noise has stopped.... nothing seems to be happening for more than 15 minutes..... but then I hear the racket again and it is going up.... yep, it has climbed back up into the space between the floors again... and running back and forth from one side of the house to the other....
I decide to go outside and see if I can find if there is a hole that they have chewed through the roof (this has happened with one of my sisters).... I look all around and see nothing... so I decide to go back inside and wait it out.....
While walking back I hear a metal clanking noise above me.... what the heck... well, out of a covered vent pops a squirrel!!!! It is making a bee line away from that vent....
WHEW....