Thursday, August 7, 2008

Mystery is solved!

What kind of animal poops like this and eats bunnies, birds and peaches?
For the last few months we have had something living under our shed. We first noticed the poop, but had no idea what it was. Our pest control people said maybe it was a ground squirrel, and left us a trap. He also put some of those sticky pads at our garage door. Unfortunately, a bird flew in and got caught on it. Todd set it outside the garage because trash day was the next day. He came out the next morning to find it gone. the trap had been pulled around by the shed and the bird was gone. On another occasion we came home to find a poor baby bunny literally ripped to shreds. the only thing left was some fur and the legs. Yesterday as we were putting the trap out, we found the bunny skull. I guess it finally passed through the digestive system of this animal. We have also been finding the seeds from peaches. About 3 weeks ago, I called the City of Richardson Animal Services. They put our name on the list for a trap. We got to pick it up yesterday.
We thought about putting Sam's baby monitor out there with the night vision so we could see what it was. It was obviously a nocturnal animal. We were both to scared to look under the shed to see what it was. Anyway, we set the trap out last night. they told us to put a can of cat food in it. so we did and now we wait.
This morning Todd went out to check and we caught ourselves a ..........
It's an opossum. I think he looks like a baby one and I think momma is probably still here. He kind of looks cute, but don't let that sweet face fool you. remember this is the animal that ripped apart a poor sweet bunny. Animal control will come pick it up this morning and leave the trap just to make sure we don't have a family living under the shed. Once we think everything is gone, then we will need to put something around the base of the shed, so we have no future guests. They say that they relocate them to a new home - whatever that means.Motel Gonzalez will need to be shut down, so they don't try to recheck-in.

2 comments:

Laura said...

I've seen these in our yard too!!! Yucky!!! They scare me!! : )

Susan said...

That's crazy! I don't understand the peach thing - where were the peaches coming from??