{"id":4,"date":"2005-08-26T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/indoor-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2006-02-01T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T01:36:18","slug":"indoor-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/indoor-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Indoor Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our house seems to get quite a variety of critters in it. This is probably partly because it&#8217;s a very old house, and because we&#8217;re sort of surrounded by woods.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the encounters we&#8217;ve had (some fun, some not so fun):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We had a hornet&#8217;s nest in one of the windows, and sprayed it, knocking the nest down and getting rid of it after the hornets had all died. Despite this, we still regularly have a hornet or two show up inside the house. Fortunately, they seem to mainly fly around the windows, trying to get back outside, rather than attacking us.<\/li>\n<li>We get the usual moths and other bugs at night, many of which get eaten by the cats. One night, though, a large, noisy flying bug was being pursued by the cats, and it turned out, on closer examination, to be a cockroach. Flying cockroaches = very bad where Sean is concerned. I mashed it furiously, and there have luckily been no more.<strong>(Update:<\/strong> We saw another of these flying bugs outside one of the windows, and the consensus now is that it was some kind of beetle, and not actually a roach.)<\/li>\n<li>One morning I came downstairs and saw and heard something dart across the kitchen floor. As I walked into the kitchen, it darted back the other way, and I saw that it was a chipmunk. It darted through a gap between a cabinet and the floor, and was seen no more. It probably decided that it didn&#8217;t want to return to the land of much larger animals.<\/li>\n<li>There are bats living in our attic. We actually welcome them, because they&#8217;ll keep the mosquito population down. They have not come into the rest of the house, which is just how we like it.<\/li>\n<li>I discovered a mouse in the ceiling of one room. They&#8217;re not welcome, but this just happened the other day, so we have yet to deal with it.<\/li>\n<li>Related to the above, on the day after seeing the mouse, I found a strange object on the floor of the same room. It turned out to be a mouse skull! Apparently, mice not only live in the ceiling, but have died there as well&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Finally, just last night, I walked into the bathroom to discover a toad sitting on the bathtub. No idea how it got in. I grabbed a box and gave it a ride outside.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned for the next exciting episode of Mutual of Belchertown&#8217;s Wild Kingdom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our house seems to get quite a variety of critters in it. This is probably partly because it&#8217;s a very old house, and because we&#8217;re sort of surrounded by woods. Some of the encounters we&#8217;ve had (some fun, some not so fun): We had a hornet&#8217;s nest in one of the windows, and sprayed it, &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/indoor-wildlife\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}