We like to call him Squirrel Lowery. I am not sure if he will survive his attempts to become a regular in our house, with my broom wielding husband, not a lamp, book, or TV is safe, much less my little auburn haired nut muncher.
A few years ago, we had a tear in our screen door. Our cats had gotten to where they squeezed through and the hole got bigger and bigger. We used to call it our “red neck cat door.” But after our parents and siblings put enough shame on us, we got a new screen door…(actually as luck would have it, the shame built up at the same time our neighbors got a new one and gave us their old one…)We finally had a fixed screen door. After a few days of entertainment of watching the cats come tearing around the corner to try and go through their cat door, only to bounce off and sit there dazed and confused… Now animal lovers, no harm no foul, no one was hurt, only laughs occurred and it’s not my fault my cats are a few brain cells short of a stick.
Finally we have a new screen. The very first day, my large footed beast of a 10 year old stuck her big toe through the screen while she tried to perform the trick “walk through screen door.” I thought my husband was going to loose his mind. The new toe hole was in the exact spot that the red neck cat door had been. So much for new stuff.
So after a trip out to the store...we came back to find that the hole in the screen had been pried open by none other than a red squirrel.
We came home, he looked at us like “Hey….did you get more apples?” As he sat on my counter big belly full while gnawing on a pinklady out of my apple bowl. However, when my husband screamed I think he realized that he may have overstepped his visit and leaped from our counter to the top of our TV cabinet. Mind you this is about a 10 foot leap. (can you see him behind the plant??)
We did manage to get him out, but have had subsequent visits from our friend. I am wondering if I should take the bed and the picture above of his mom and dad as a sign he is planning on moving in. If so I am going to need some valium for my husband and locks for my kitchen cabinets…
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3 comments:
Just be really careful of your wires and cords...we had a chipmunk trapped in our study for less than 4 hours and he ate through 3 USB cables and the main power cord for the PC. I was NOT happy!
We've had so many different kinds of animals get stuck in our house, so I really feel for ya. Oh and I am a veteran of "walking through screens"...yeah, I'm probably a few cells short of a whole stick too!
that is ridiculous. it's always been bats at our house....somebody looks over and says, "What's that brown thing hanging on the rock wall?"
Why, it's a bat!
Jamie and his broom remind me of Dad and the mouse. He will do more damage than the critter can ever do!
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