Squirrels

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Along with bats, another critter made its home in the house. Tearing out the bottom of the base boards in the office room quite a bit of stuff had fallen down from the inside ceiling up in the attic. Most of the stuff was from squirels making nests over the years.

Found this body of a squirell in the wall. Talk about a mummy!

In the back part of the house is where the kitchen was and will be when the home is restored. In this room is an exhaust chimney to allow heat to rise out of the room. Upon seeing a squirel go down this chimney, the decision was made to see if the chimney was plugged by the squirrels. So a ladder was placed under the chimney exhaust and previously this was covered by a square piece of tin. Upon removing the tin cover you guessed it.......a ton of stuff came poring down....

As the hole was prodded more and more debris came raining down.

Upon clearing out the hole all of the sudden a big crash of debris came raining down...more on that below...as you can see the chimney is now open...



So much to our surprise a squirriel's nest is what came crashing down and Max the Doberman was all at attention. Crawling on the ground was a baby squirrel who's eyes were still not open even this late in the year October 2009.

It was a boy squirrel .........

So what do you do with a baby squrriel? We put him in a box and kept him warm.

This story has a happy ending. The local wild life specialist took the squrriel and we wished him God Speed!