[Holiday Cheer] Day 9 - The Squirrel Chronicles Part 2

The second appearance and some cheer!

First things first. Here’s your cheer for the day! Read on to hear about the second part of the squirrel saga…

Part 2:

Tuesday morning started off completely normal. I walked the dog, gave my geriatric cat his meds, brewed a cup of coffee, and trotted up to my office to begin work.

I knew something was wrong as soon as I opened the door. My potted plant had been dug up, the windows were chewed and stuff had been knocked off my desk in every direction.

It was the squirrel. Again. Ugh.

I started cleaning up and assumed that he found his way OUT the same way he got IN. (Y’all know the saying about assuming? yeah….)

Anyway, I’m cleaning up and I hear angry chirping coming from behind my cabinet.

He was still in my office!!!

I evacuate immediately and slam the door. Now is a good time to note that I’ve never been able to get the windows in my office open. They’ve been stuck for years.

I caved and called the wildlife professional. Screw the money. If I had to spend $400 to get the squirrel extracted then so be it. (RH was traveling for business, so here I was doing battle with the squirrel on my own!)

The wildlife guy said he’d be here in an hour.

During that hour I’m outside the door listening to the squirrel destroy my office and I can’t take it. I realize what I must do to stop the madness: get one of my office windows open.

Wearing the same blanket RH wore the morning before for protection, I charged into my office with a rubber mallet and fierce determination. One of these windows had to open, dang it!

Apparently me wearing the ghost get-up terrified the squirrel. He ran and hid under my file cabinet the entire time I was banging on the window. Or maybe he was scared of me wielding a rubber mallet. It was hard to tell.

Either way, I finally got a window open!

Within minutes the furry visitor was finally OUT of my office. Whew!

So HOW did he even get in the house?

He chewed a hole through the wall of my office from the attic. Which shocked the wildlife guy, who said it’s very unusual for them to want to get INTO your house. As of now, operation-squirrel-proof is an ongoing trial-and-error process. He’s still at large and can be heard scampering through the attic in the afternoons. I’ve set a trap in the attic to try and catch him, and have several product recommendations to try sealing the attic and keeping him out for good.

In the meantime, the hole he chewed is barricaded and hopefully, my office is safe from future invasion as we figure this out! 🤞🏼