cats
You might want to try a live trap. I think animal control or the SPCA has them. I used one once when a stray (I thought was living under our deck but I couldn’t catch him.) The trap worked and I alerted the police that I caught it. Animal control took it but the police had a lost cat on their record so it went to the thankful owner. It was an inside cat that had escaped and must have become frightened and couldn’t find its way home. It lived about three blocks behind me. The owner stopped days later and thanked me. A can of tuna was the trick.