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[quote=Anonymous]I rent in an old building in DC and I get about one mouse a year. It is not very mousy for a huge old building in a commercial area.

On Tuesday my building was doing some pipe maintenance and had windows open to get hoses in and out. I believe that while windows were cracked for the hoses, a squirrel of some kind got into the walls. I first heard it on Thursday night when I got home from the office. Cat was going berserk so I called maintenance who insisted it was just a couple of mice echoing (which is why it sounded louder) and that the most they could do was set glue traps, which I declined because of the cat. I went out yesterday morning and bought cat-safe mouse traps that I put in some places around the apt.

Of course this afternoon it started up again and at one point this afternoon I legitimately heard it tumbling around and crash into something in the walls at which point I decided it's not a couple of mice echoing, it's a small animal. It's in the wall behind my stove, and the other side of that wall is my bathroom. It stopped after about 30 minutes. Cat was tweaking and is currently napping.

Is this an emergency that necessitates interrupting maintenance's holiday weekend or should I wait until Tuesday? My boyfriend insists it's not going to be able to get out of the wall* but I'm scared it'll find its way out and attack me or the cat. [/quote]

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