It came crawling back down, went back up (WHAT THE HELL? How does it not like cheese? It literally walked within 1cm of the cheese three times.), and Eric decided to try to force it down with the fireplace poker the next time we saw it.
We only had to wait another two minutes. Eric got the thing down, I jumped up, and Eric informed me that it was in the fireplace, but not in the box. Great. I saw it on the side of the box, looking like it was trying to find a way out. I grabbed my camera and took a couple of poor-quality photos:
How cute is it?! We're almost positive it was a flying squirrel. It has little webbed arms, black nocturnal eyes and a tail not quite as bushy as a common squirrel's. Anyway, after I snapped this photo, its next idea was to climb up the screen, where there was an opening... into the rest of our house. Eric got his flashlight and forced him back into the fireplace, and it crawled rather easily onto the walls. Eric somehow got it into the box. I think he poked at it several times with his flashlight until it went into the box.
So anyway, we carried the box outside, opened it up, and it scurried into the glorious forest that is our backyard.
4 comments:
CREEEEEEPY!!! That thing isn't cute, it looks evil. You need to go get yourselves checked out. It most definitely has rabies. Or the hiv.
Kudos to Deuce for trapping the beast. I may have tried to get Maddie to take care of it.
No you wouldn't have. They're seriously cute! Lookit! http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4101/4754272724_409a01c6f7.jpg
Okay, they're cute. But not in my house they wouldn't be. Was there just one?
I hope so. Haven't heard any other scratchings.
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