So, some number of weeks ago we had heard a scratching sound in some of the kitchen cupboards. We suspected mice. Fortunately, this cupboard area did not contain any food. At one point, a small furry thing was spotted briefly, and the cookbooks in the cupboard then got removed to prevent their being shredded.
Plans were discussed. Traps were purchased. Traps did not work – that is, the traps (the live trap kind) were found closed with no rodents in them. Soon after the setting of these traps, the noise ceased for a couple of weeks.
But then tonight, we heard it again, and opened the cupboard to get a good look at what was creeping around.  It looked too big to be a mouse. Its head was not pointy enough. Its tail was not thin and hairless. In fact, after some googling of images, we discovered that we have a Southern Flying Squirrel lurking in our cupboards!
We have yet to actually snap a picture, or figure out what to do about the thing. We are finding it bizarre and kind of cool to have such a creature in there, rather than a run-of-the-mill mouse. Of course, the squirrel probably finds it exceedingly odd that there are people lurking in its ‘tree’.