Two weeks ago, I went to one of my houses in Ozark & noticed that the air vent was pushed up and sitting on the floor next to it. I was a bit puzzled and thought to myself, "self, how did that happen, weird, the air must be really forceful." I popped it back in & thought nothing else of it. I sat down & called J. After being on the phone with J a couple of minutes I heard some kind of noise in the house. I immediately remembered the vent & said, "I think something is in the house!" So I looked in one room & saw that the vent was pushed up. I went to the other room & saw all was ok. I came to the bathroom, snuck around the corner to look in, saw a fluffy tail & went screaming my head off into the living room! Now J was on the phone the whole time. Long story short. I could still hear the mystery animal in the bathroom for a couple of seconds. But after sitting on the table for 30 minutes, not hearing anymore noise, calling 911, talking to the police, and then calling a critter control company I managed to go back to the bathroom & slam the door shut.
Well apparently Animal Control only takes care of dogs & they don't work on weekends. Critter Control only works during the week & charge a fortune & the police won't do anything about it.
So, I leave, but J insists that I go back & do I don't know what to this animal but make sure it does not damage the bathroom. So I take Mr.T to do it...
Mr. T preparing to enter & see what awaits him behind the bathroom door.
Mr. T checking out the bathroom & coming up with nothing but a clue...
The escape path. Thank goodness my bff's husband works for the conservation department & they handle wild animals. So the next day he went by the house to check in the crawls space to see what it was, and as he opened the door to the crawl space there stood a SKUNK!!!! How on earth had there been a skunk under the house and in the house & it never sprayed who knows & who cares. Better yet why did it not spray when it heard me screaming for my life? Who knows but thank goodness it didn'tAnother agent in the area that handles skunks set some traps. He has caught 2 babies so far & he thinks that the mom got squished in the street a couple of days ago. Let's hope. I will keep you updated. Especially since he left the traps for me to "take care of" this week. But here are some pics of J searching the house again to make sure none were in there & then pics of one of the babies in the trap.
Getting cocky now! But I bugged him & bugged him to get close for a picture.
3 comments:
I can't belive you called 911 that is so funny! I would've screamed too. Maybe don't tell people looking at the house that story :)
I knew everyone would think that was crazy but my Danton says that 911 is the number to call about animal disturbances. But I know, I think calling 911 is for and EMERGENCY!!
I'm mostly amused by the fact that you had Mr.T come over and check out the animal situation. I wish I would have been there to see it!
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