"ap" wrote in message
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Is there some device or material we can buy and
place on our attic to keep nocturnal pests away?

Mothballs might convince him to stay away for a while.

We had a squirrel that decided to eat thru a facia board on our house and
live in the soffits. That was a lot of fun. In the end, we had to cover up
the hole with some metal sheet stuff, and he went away to live somewhere
else.