All of the sudden I heard this rustling noise by the deck, my husband went out to investigate.....nothing. It almost sounded as if someone had banged against the furniture on the deck. We were curious but found nothing. Maybe a stray dog or cat? After a quick investigation which resulted in finding nothing we went back all was forgotten.
A few hours later I heard this God awful banging, the den door was closed so Bill didn't hear it but it sounded as if someone was bashing against the duct work under the house. Let's not go into the fact that Bill needs to get his hearing checked, that's another story! Now I'm thinking to myself, if these are burglars they are dumb as dirt since we have a crawl space not a basement! And frankly we have a bazillion guns since hubby's a gun collector so they'd be making a really really big mistake picking this house.
This time however we did find the culprits trying to break into the crawlspace door and making quite the racket doing it. I'm thinking their intention was for a night of romance out of the rain and cold. They had a bit more hair and much sharper teeth than the average criminal! As it turns out it was a pair of Opossums, they are nasty little suckers. And the last thing I need is a mating pair taking up family life under my house.
This type of thing is occurring more and more often since a timber company came in and removed about a square mile of trees on a property closely neighboring ours. I swear I don't understand what people are thinking when they clear cut like that.Tomorrow Bill will put some type of tasty morsel in our 'have a heart trap' and see what we can do about relocating these two to another location, preferably not near my house or anyone else's for that matter.
Yeah, they scare me with those vicious looking teeth. We have had a few that hang around our house and one even scratched at the back door like our cats do and without looking hubby started to open the door and almost let it in the house! I'm wondering how long it had been watching the cats to know to scratch at the door?
ReplyDeleteBTW I am having a hard time leaving comments using OpenID and my WordPress sign in. I am having to use name and URL to leave any comments on Blogger. Only happens with Blogger. Weird...
I'm so glad they haven't found our kitty doors. My husband would probably take more aggressive action against them, and i'd hate that!
DeleteI checked my settings, I can comments from everyone. Open ID too! I think Blogger and Word Press have a THING to tell you the truth. Remember I can't join any word Press blogs, it won't work with my g-mail address. I just don't know what the deal is....sorry for your trouble. Did you log out and log back in?
OMG
ReplyDeleteThose are the most nastiest fiercest creatures ever!!! Ack!!!
You are so right, now imagine the whole family living under your house!
DeleteI think those are some of the only critters we dont have. We do have a racoon that loves raiding the hummingbird feeder on the back deck that has no fear of humans....we turned on the light to find it licking up the sugarwater and it just sat there and stared at us, didnt run or try to hide. This time of year we dont have much wildlife except for the occasional mountain lion ( tracks only...havent seen the cat itself ) and a few flocks of giant wild turkeys.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness, they are ugly nasty creatures, and what a racket!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, yuck. They are ugly little creators. Hope they don't attempt a break in again any time soon.
ReplyDeleteEH! Those possums are yuck!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, I never thought they would be capable of that kind of noise! They are nasty, nasty little beasts!
ReplyDeleteHa, I was on the edge of my seat, totally expecting a drunk teenage couple at your door.
ReplyDeleteApparently I'm in the minority when I think those things are kind of cute. I actually gave my husband a stuffed one for Valentine's Day one year LOL