Brazen Davis Sq. House Break-In in Broad Daylight, This Afternoon

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Today, around 2:45pm, while I was working at my dining room table, I heard a rustling and rattling that I assumed was my roommate in the next room. (It turns out he wasn't home at the time).

Fifteen minutes later I was heading down the back stairs to get my bike and leave when I discovered that someone had come in through the open door of our second-floor back porch. The intruder had apparently gone directly to the pantry (in the back, off the kitchen) and run through the shelves grabbing packages of sweet-smelling foods using sharp claws and pointy teeth.

Given that the perp passed over a bucket of handy compost scraps just *outside* of the human-lair, and could not even wait to get back out of the house before ripping through the side of the canister of powdered chocolate, I'm guessing we're talking about a seriously pre-menstrual squirrel here. There was muffin-mix, chocolate, and little scraps of packaging all over the back stairs.

The ferocious guard-cat who was on duty at the time had this to say:

"what??" <*lick*> <*lick*>

Comments

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

your cat and mine must belong to the same cat union...WMW ("what-me-work?")

I had a possum take a wrong turn from my backyard into my kitchen a few years ago (I had the door open). It looked like a massive rat! Fortunately we were both so scared of the other that I was able to coax it out of the pantry and into a cat carrier and released it into the 'wilds' of Davis Sq.

then there was the time a bat got in the house...

[aki.livejournal.com]

Possums are seriously scary looking.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

We totally saw a raccoon trying to break into someone's house in Davis the other day. It practically had the padlock in its paw and was fiddling with it. I think it's a conspiracy.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Urban Wildlife Nation. They're here... :-)

[tt02144.livejournal.com]

WELCOME TO THE CITY!!

squirrel

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

I once saw one rip a hole in someone's window screen and pillage their kitchen. The human occupants returned just a moment later, and the squirrel ran back and forth in front of the window until it found its escape hole again, and launched itself to freedom. Those buggers are wily and fast!