Common Mom

Spring is here in full force, which means all the critters in our forest are out as well. The litters of baby fox, the beautiful blue jays, the singing birds, the pecking woodpeckers . . . and those damn squirrels! We have SO many squirrels in our yard. I don’t mind the squirrels - I mean, we DID move in to their neighborhood - but when they set up shop in my attic, then I mind. For the past 8 months I’ve been telling the hubby that I’m hearing scratching, etc. in the walls or attic. He says not possible for anything to get in there - and besides that, he didn’t really hear the noises. Finally, he hears it, too. He called animal control after checking out the attic and finding piled insulation, scratch marks, and chewed electrical wires! The other morning, the kids and I were eating breakfast and we could hear something chewing on the metal of one of the can lights in the kitchen! In 3 days we caught 3 squirrels. Claude, our trusty animal control guy, told us the first one was “A big mamma, and that the little ones should be big enough to come out on their own.” WHAT?!? So this thing had it’s babies in my attic?!?! Sheesh.

This morning there were two smaller squirrels in the other two traps . . . Claude will be on his way to set them free in the forest far far away from our house and also set some more traps. Here’s to hoping that our unwelcome tenants leave my attic soon so we can cover the vents and call the electrician so we don’t set our house on fire with the chewed wires.

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