The DUmbass has 2 cats.
Let the cats kill "whatever". That's what they do best.
F'n DUmbasses!

Funny thing here we have had a couple episodes of hearing tapping in the ceiling, not gnawing but tapping like a bird makes on wood for the last few weeks.
Both huge Maine Coon cats alerted me to this, turned down the sound on the TV and then we heard it. I cannot convince hubby there is something alive in the ceiling. When he hears the noise he goes about banging on the ceiling with my cane and figures it is the house settling. I just roll my eyes and go along with him, but I know this is not natural.
He raised in apartments in the city and the first home he ever bought and lived in has not yet got use to the idea we cannot call a maintenance man for free. OH the Joy of home ownership for a person that had a landlord at their beck and call 24/7 all their life until he met me and we bought our home. Poor man had no idea of what owning a home was about, he has learned it is a money pit, he was now responsible for paying for everything.
What is that noise the cats he and I hear?? Not all the time, just occasionally, is it in fact the double wide settling, will both haves of the home break apart and fall into each other?
Last couple night we have been awaken by the dogs and cats, puppy raising havoc pulling our pillows out from under our heads and cats 20 pounds each racing about driving the dogs nuts.
With Hubby working 6-10 hour days a week he is not happy when I suggested that as this area was semi-wet land perhaps we were under a sink hole gearing up to collapes.
What the Hell, the neighbors of my Mom had their home ceiling collaps as there was a bee hive weighing over 100 pounds in the attic crawl space, must have been there 40 years. 25 years later we all talk about the excitement that day. Firefighters were being swarmed, police with loudspeakers warning neighbors to stay indoors, occasionally there is excitement in a small town.
Never know what is above or below or in the home until all hell breaks out. The Joys of the American dream, home owenership.