Friday evening I went down to the crawlspace to find an old apron from my waitress job to use at the dinner while waiting tables. So as I am digging through a box of old clothes I hear a russling on the plastic floor behind me. I freeze and then slowly turn. There slowly sneaking is a varmit of some kind. I slowly start freaking out, barely avoiding a scream until I get up the ladder to the main floor of the house. Where I proceed to excitedly tell Jordan what I just saw.
"It was the size of a CAT! I think it's a marmot!"
Jake's 2 cents were to laugh hysterically and "Well, those mouse traps won't do any good!"
Jordan was amused but my ever hero, he went and got a pair of work gloves and Jake got a buoy knife.
Down into the crawlspace they went with my words following them, "If that thing is in my box....UGH!"
Shortly I hear from Jordan down in the hole. "Oh, look. There he is, in the box."
Bah!! So Jordan tried to fish it out of the box only to have to throw it down when it went to bite him. Jordan could tell by the tail that it was a muskrat.
As it took off running behind a board Jordan went right after it and with quick grab, nabbed the little bugger.
Jake had a pillow case handy and Jordan threw it in. All in about 3 minutes. The boys dealt out a somewhat swift execution that I was forced to witness, to my shrieking dislike. Weapons of choice? Tomahawk and buoy knife wielded by Jake, sushi chef style, as Jordan held the pillowcase against a tree.
So how did it the little creature get in? through the air to air exchange tube, which it eventually had to chew through, landing it in our crawlspace. Which we later figured he stayed for a few days up to a week. It must have been pretty close to starvation and desperate when we found him. We found that it had shredded the insulation all around the foundation road. Ugh. So now we have a few repairs to take care of. And one less house guest.
Thank God for my two brave men :)
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