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

[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... :-)