Just another boring Saturday. Waiting for the rain to come, Working on a few projects around the house. I was gathering tools from the garage and when out of the corner of my eye, I see this puffy tail whoosh around some debris. What the heck? I think this day is looking up. I round up the kids and pets, and shut the garage door. We are going hunting kids.
Our garage is a huge mess, filled to the brim with junk and stuff that should be stored in a shed, so its a maze with tones of small hiding spaces. With the help of my incredible mini retrievers we sniff out the beast. Those hounds are great on the ground. I would shake the shelves and scare out the varmint and the dogs would work the chase on the lower level. Molly and Lilly were in dog heaven. haven't worked that hard in like, well ever.. The kids were my eyes and ears and excitable commentators.
This squirrel was a little daredevil. Scaling shelves, garage door, boxes, even some death defying leaps. eventually he trapped himself in a tall box. HA HA. But we could not grab him. It was like the Matrix in a box. The beast was leaping side wall to side wall. Kids were watching with intensity, screaming and jumping at each sudden movement. The dogs were going nuts.
After a bit, we all figured it would be a good idea to let the little dare devil go. Opened the box and tried again to grab him this time he jumped from the wall to my arm and out. Kids were screamin' dogs were spinning out trying to catch the vermin. I learned a big lesson, even if the garage door is open doest mean the animal will run to freedom. Yeah so open cages outside and close all doors to your house or vehicle or what ever.. anyway the little fella did not want to leave the comforts of our garage.
It took a lot of chasing and screaming, sweat and laughing to get rid of him. I almost grabbed him a few times but he was too quick. By no attempt of his own, we finally got rid of him. He had climbed up on the top of the open garage door, so by closing it he had to jump off and out side. YEEHAW.
I think All parties had a good day. Now our dogs are obsessed with going into the garage.
