Sciurus domestis?
Jul. 18th, 2004 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasSo, Anna, our upstairs tenant and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marquisedea's mother, called us yesterday with a problem
See, there's this squirrel that's been getting into her house.
I went up there to take a look at it.
The thing's chewed holes in the screens of her kitchen windows, and climbed in. It's been doing this for a couple days -- it chewed through one screen, and climbed in and ate a piece of bread. So Anna kept that window closed, and it chewed through the OTHER window's screen, and came in, and opened the candy jars on the kitchen table to get chocolate.
Fixing the screens shouldn't be THAT hard -- but that won't solve the problem. The FIRST step is to get the squirrel!
You'd think that a house in which cats live on every single floor would not be as attractive a place for squirrels. But, no, not one of the cats in the house pays any particular ATTENTION to squirrels, so they could just wander in, eat the cat food out of all the bowls. . . I don't know if any of them HAVE yet, but they could.
We're trying to figure out how to get the squirrel. Our current theory is to put a Havahart trap on the kitchen table with food in it. Now we just need to get a Havahart trap, which are sold at Home Depot, so I'll get that tonight if Lis comes home with the car soon, or tomorrow afternoon otherwise.
Then we need to figure out what we're going to do once we GET the squirrel, but we'll deal with that problem later.
marquisedea's mother, called us yesterday with a problemSee, there's this squirrel that's been getting into her house.
I went up there to take a look at it.
The thing's chewed holes in the screens of her kitchen windows, and climbed in. It's been doing this for a couple days -- it chewed through one screen, and climbed in and ate a piece of bread. So Anna kept that window closed, and it chewed through the OTHER window's screen, and came in, and opened the candy jars on the kitchen table to get chocolate.
Fixing the screens shouldn't be THAT hard -- but that won't solve the problem. The FIRST step is to get the squirrel!
You'd think that a house in which cats live on every single floor would not be as attractive a place for squirrels. But, no, not one of the cats in the house pays any particular ATTENTION to squirrels, so they could just wander in, eat the cat food out of all the bowls. . . I don't know if any of them HAVE yet, but they could.
We're trying to figure out how to get the squirrel. Our current theory is to put a Havahart trap on the kitchen table with food in it. Now we just need to get a Havahart trap, which are sold at Home Depot, so I'll get that tonight if Lis comes home with the car soon, or tomorrow afternoon otherwise.
Then we need to figure out what we're going to do once we GET the squirrel, but we'll deal with that problem later.