There is something in my basement!!!!

[sweeterdeeter42]

There is something in my basement. I know this not because I have seen anything running around, but after the dust was kicked up by my chicks, these foot prints appeared on a table. They are way too big to be a mouse and not small enough to be a rat I dont think, but way too small to be my cat and she hasnt been down there anyways. Are they squirrel prints? What ever it is had to have gotten in through my dryer vent because I disconnected it from the dryer so anything can just crawl in, I suppose. (going to close that off right now....

) And had to be smart enough to get back out, because there isnt anything down there that I could see, and we dont have very much stuff in our basement. Anyone have any idea what these prints are? You can see how it jumped up on the edge of the table like a cat or something would.......

 

[al6517]

Looks like cat paws to me.

 

[speckledhen]

Are there toenail marks? I think I see them in one pic. If so, not a cat.

 

[sonew123]

yyup kitty kitty I think too

 

[love-my-wolves]

Maybe a kitten??

 

[sweeterdeeter42]

I would absolutely love it if it were a kitten! But I live about a mile from any of my neighbors and I have never seen a kitten in my yard................ I went down and looked again and there are no definite toenail marks, just one spot here or there that could possibly be a toenail, but could also be nothing.

 

[MysticScorpio82]

Wow! The definately look like tiny cat prints!! If there is no possiblity of a tiny cat / kitten to be in you basement, then I am stumbed. What looks like a cat print but isn't a cat print...? I will be watching this thread in hopes you find the anser and let us know!

 

[cazyaniamllover]

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You got cats the 1st pic. look just like a baby kitten then the second look like you could have a tiny mama too are slight lager brother/sister i know i have to many cats (starys that have smaller feet then that are moms and house) and i can proimise you i did not send any...yet i only do that to people i know super well but if you want to keep them but cacht them get can food and water and they relize you are the foodlady/foodguy and get freinldy to you and plese if you don't have cats already are not seeing them going into or out the tube thingie plese don't say WoW because cats lack true coller bones and their whispers (if i spellled that right) are i belive slightly longer then thier sides of their bodys and if they can squeez thier head thought they can usely go thought tiny tight space... but if i am right about thier being a mama and a kitten are two and they a little fatter they may get stuck i learned that the hard way (cat been at the vet for a while and spoiled her with food and well we got a hole in the door and she went in and got stuck coming out

and i thought it was a male cat that won't shut-up (it was over an hour and she have many diffent meows) came she was in beeten the door and doorfame poor baby but it was funny afterwares but i felt bad too)

 

[sweeterdeeter42]

Nobody thinks squirrel? I feel sad that I crimped off the access to the basement if it is a kitten. I dont know where a kitten would come from. If it were feral, I wouldnt think that it would try that hard to go into somewhere where people are. And whatever it was didnt get any of my chicks, who decided to learn to fly and were free ranging the basement when we came home from Easter weekend.

 

[Imp]

Squirrels have small fingers.
I agree a small cat, but not necessarily a kitten.

Imp