Infestation of Squirrel

While I was sitting in our front room a couple of days ago, I heard what sunded like something scraping at the front door. On further investigation I discovered it was coming from inside the drywall next to the front door.

Always ones for prompt action, we left it for a day to see if it went away but no, it continued. As we were concerned that something may have got stuck and would die there, Richard drilled a couple of holes in the wall and then set his cunning rodent trap - a laundry basket. Lo and behold, we caught a young squirrel, which wasn't quite intelligent enough to go back through the holes in the drywall.


We released it back into the wild but of course a couple of hours later we heard the scratching again. The squirrel, or possibly another one, was back, and this time it managed to evade Richard's trap and came wandering into the front room. We managed to corral it out the front door where it promptly vanished down a hole in the ground under the porch. Now we know where it's getting in. So we're now on a mission to squirrel proof our house before they take over completely.