There is something in my basement!!!!

[hunter109]

ethier a cat or a small kittin coon

 

[86121]

Best way to find out, set a live trap with something tasty in it like a can of cat food or tuna.
If nothing touches it within a day or two, switch to something a prey animal would eat like peanut-butter or something...
Then when you catch it you know what you are dealing with.
If its a kitten, well congrats someone is a mom.
If its anything else, well...then you have a problem dont yeah?

 

[sweeterdeeter42]

Well, we dont have a neighbor within a mile of us, but I suppose one could travel over here. But the tracks are way way smaller than my cats paw prints and she is 5 lbs, so it would have to be a pretty small cat or a kitten.............or a micro-bobcat.

A raccoon print has 5 toes, these have 4.

Guess we will keep guessing until we figure it out. Wish livetraps werent so expensive. (Yes, $40 is expensive to me for something that we may only use a couple times. lol)

 

[urbanfarmer101]

Sometimes stray cats will find an opening in a house and have their kittens there. I saw one on the neighbors roof the other day. Sure enough, she found an opening in the roof and climbed in and had her babies in the attic.

Put out a bowl of milk or cat food early in the morning. I bet it will come out.

 

[MeowCluckBark]

cats can travel quite a distance from home. I had a cat that went from my new house all the way to my old house 3 miles away. I went over to get more boxes and he was at the back door. They have excellent tracking by smell.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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Maybe the kitten was why your birds decided to free range the basement. Kitten could have startled them into flapping, scaring the kitten away from the birds.