March 08, 2008

To catch the [mystery animal] you gotta think like the [mystery animal]

Which means identifying the mystery animal. So we spent the morning taking down ceiling tile and insulation. Now we know that we have an animal, and it has plenty of fiber in its diet.

We found what looks like rat droppings, and I'm no stranger to rat droppings. However, we found no nest, we found no ripped-up paper in the rec room where it stole material for a nest, we found no food, we found nothing chewed up. Our rats can only go ten seconds without gnawing if they are asleep. We did not find a sleeping rat.

We also found no holes. I was hoping for one of those cute little archways you see in the cartoons, because that would be easy to fill in. Instead, I still have no clue how it gets in...whatever it is.

(My working theory, and this one is serious, not like the poltergeist theory: chipmunk. I've seen chipmunks in the yard, front and back, plenty of times. They live in tunnels with specific areas for sleeping, food stashing, and defecating, unlike rats, who are pretty much ok with an efficiency nest. Maybe we got a chipmunk who decided our basement made a good luxury bathroom. I just wish I could find where the basement ceiling and the rest of the tunnel intersects.)

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