We have a squirrel that has adopted us. He lives in the trees close to our house and we can watch him foraging for nuts and scampering up to his home safe in the treetops.
He was part of our menagerie of animals until a few weeks ago. Now he is on the most wanted list.
It was a rainy day a few weeks ago and the boys were doing their schoolwork. All of a sudden we heard a knock-knock sound on the side of the house. We all ran out and saw our little "pet". We thought "how cute he is banging his food against the side of the house to eat it."
We heard the same knock-knock a few days later in the same spot. Elijah was watching him out of the front door and spooked him. So little "pet" ran around to the side of the house. I heard him a few minutes later by a different window so I pulled the screen out and poked my head out of the window to see him in action. Oh, boy did I ever see him in action. He wasn't trying to crack his winter supply of nuts open to eat. He was eating the side of my house. There were little nibble marks all down the side of the house. He wasn't the cute squirrel anymore, he was dead meat. I told Randy about it and he got his gun out and the next time we heard him He fired a warning shot to scare him. After all he was sort of a pet. We didn't want to kill him, yet.
We thought the gun scared him off and our house was saved. No, this is one determined squirrel. He was back at it again bright and early this morning. I let Zoe out and she chased him down, Mr.Squirrel got a sudden burst of energy at the last second and avoided death by Zoe. So he is down to no more chances. Mr. Squirrel is dead the next time I catch him making the siding on my house his main course!
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Geemineepers! Between you and Miriam's rodent tales, I'm afraid to even get out of bed! I could have an oppossum sitting on my toilet for a healthy morning dump!
Hey, I want to thank you for inviting my family to Elija's birthday party. My kids can't stop talking about how much fun that had at your house. I was having a somewhat hard day that day, so I apologize if I seemed stand-off-ish at all. It helped to just be able to hang out with everyone there. I hope our families can get together with the kids again sometime soon.
love you,
Amy
STOP THE CRUELITY TO ANIMALS. {:o(
don't worry Donna, it will end one way or anouther. {;-)
That is just way too funny Tracy!!!! I'll let Marty know . . . he would LOVE to track down your tiny little pest!!!!!!! LOL
Amy - I hope I'm not the reason you had such a hard day on Saturday. Did I work you too hard?????? I'm so sorry! Glad you all had a good time at Eli's party though. I'm sure the birthday boy had a blast!
Tracy, Randy could have blamed the new pet for chewing into your phone line after Clifford dug the hole. He should have thought of that one!:)
Tracy, I understand uze are lookin to have a contract put out on one "Mr. Rocky the Squirrel" also known as aka "the pet squirrel". Ize would be happy to enforce said contract for a nominal fee (i.e. snickerdoodles, monkey bread, etc,). Just say the word and he is toast or gravy on toast. I will be happy to muderlate him.
Signed
Guido the Enforcer
(AKA Marty S)
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